Are the issues of tomorrow’s data centers anything like they are today? A recent study by the Uptime Institute found that many of the expected challenges in 2016 are very similar to present issues, although some will be substantially different.
Twenty-four North American data center executives from finance, hosting and third-party data center providers, retail, health care, manufacturing, transportation, designers, and facility operations helped draw a picture of the future in recent interviews. These individuals are all responsible for data center site infrastructure and some have additional information technolgoy (IT) duties. Individuals in the Uptime Institute and The 451 Group offered additional perspectives.