The COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended the definition of business as usual, highlighting the need for a newer, different way of thinking. This especially rings true for today’s enterprise, cloud, and colocation facilities handling the data explosion caused by remote workers, virtual classrooms and events, telemedicine, video streaming, social media, and a myriad of other processes. And, as 5G rolls out, AI, ML, and IoT data will further challenge the IT infrastructure.
Worldwide spending on data center hardware and software reached $41.4 billion in the second quarter of 2020, fueled by a 25% spending spike by public cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft up 7% year over year, according to Synergy Research Group.