Looking ahead to 2018, what do you believe to be the largest trend within the data center?

Data center operations and management have traditionally been handled by the core facility management team.

What was the goal of the research?

Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2020 there will be 26 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices deployed worldwide, resulting in a major surge in Big Data analytics.

Data housing has become a critical issue for almost every industry sector as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) have become pervasive even to the small business, compounded by growth in the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and other data-intensive industries.

Speed to data. That’s what it’s all about.

How does your industry rank against the world’s most critical industries?

What unique insights did the research convey about the current state of DCIM deployments?

The unprecedented capacity requirements of large social media, search, colocation, and cloud companies are driving massive investments in data center development.

Q: How top of mind is disaster recovery for most businesses?