data centers in the digital economy
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Data Centers in the Digital Economy
Charles Mok Legislative Councillor, Information Technology FIF Asia (2015.11.12)
“ Data is the new oil of the digital economy - Wired, 2014
US$151.3bn
(+8% Global) APAC +6.8%
Source: Global Data Center Investment 2013, DCD Intelligence
Global investment in data center 2012-13
59% of firms expect their data center spending
to grow in the next 12 months
Source: Forrester Research, 2015
75% of firms rate level of
control over data center facility “important”
Data centers as “Digital factory”
Crucial hubs of data-driven economy where
a mountain of data is collected, filed, and analyzed
users upload
300 hours video every minute
Expected in 2025: 1,700 hours per
minute OR
2 exabytes of video data per year
The stakes are high
Average cost per
minute of unplanned
downtime was
US$7,900 in 2013
(+41% from 2010)
Source: FORTRUST
Big data and IoT are changing the rules of
how infrastructure support operations
Google data center network bandwidth pushing towards
1 Petabit/s(Pbps) = 1000 Terabits = transmitting 5,000 2-hour HDTV videos in 1 second = 100,000 servers to exchange data at 10 Gbps per server
how much data are we talking about?
Key drivers
reducing Capex and Opex
stay competitive with high efficiency
shared environment to cloud
handle proliferation of mobile devices
Digital economy brings newer, higher requirements for data centers
Real-time analytics
processing
Data ingestion and
queryability
Massive scalability for
high data/query volume
High availability and
reliability
Actionable intelligence
Future in digital economy
More and more data
Mass migration to the cloud
Bring your own device on the rise
Industry cloud- vertical industries and more
specialized applications
Looking ahead - challenges
How to build storage infrastructure that can cope with
flexible environment and higher load?
How to make data centers operation align with business
objectives?
How should the data centers be controlled?
How to ensure the mission-critical information that keeps
businesses in operation are secure
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