The IT infrastructure market faces massive disruption — both today and for the foreseeable future. Digital transformation presents significant challenges and opportunities that will surely separate leaders from laggards in 2016. And the data center will play an increasingly important role amid this upheaval.
When analyst firm Gartner recently unveiled its top 10 emerging trends in the IT industry at its Gartner IT Symposium, three notable trends — enterprise-defined data center, global data center management, and bi-modal IT — topped the list. The message is clear: The data center hardly resembles what it once was. And tomorrow’s data center promises to change, too.