If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that things don’t always go as planned. But, it’s no secret that COVID-19 accelerated a myriad of changes that directly relate to the data center industry. Mission Critical magazine spoke to experts in all sectors of the industry to see what they think will transpire in the year to come.
“For service providers, 5G represents an opportunity to reduce the CAPEX significantly through network slicing, and the ability to create new services, but it also presents the challenge of balancing the price of innovation with a cost-effective business model. In 2021 there is a tremendous amount of work ahead to deploy the infrastructure necessary to handle the massive amounts of data that 5G enables. Thus, our tools and networks need to work more efficiently to meet these new infrastructure demands.”
— Laurent Marchand, CEO at Kaloom