This is the focus of the GigaOm Structure event this week
“In the next five years a new way of thinking about, constructing and operating IT will emerge. Data centers are no longer the size of mini-marts but instead are mega-marts like Rob Roy’s 2.2 million square foot Switch data center in Las Vegas (photo below) . Servers are no longer the unit of computing, but instead are being taken completely apart or are a mere component in the new data-center sized computer, a trend being pushed by Frank Frankovsky at Facebook and at the Open Compute Foundation.
The walls between data centers will also matter less and less as software defined networks help create secure, flexible bandwidth between data centers and eventually continents, which folks like Martin Casado of Nicira are working on. This new era sees infrastructure as a service and the hardware becomes a fungible element, supporting a river of data and applications that flow on top of it. The U.S. government is certainly taking advantage of this shift with its Digital Government Strategy, led by U.S. CIO Steve VanRoekel.”
Photo Credit Switch
“Data centers are no longer the size of mini-marts but instead are mega-marts like Rob Roy’s 2.2 million square foot Switch data center in Las Vegas...” – That sure is a monumental change for the IT industry. But these changes are becoming apparent nowadays. I can count big-name companies who are now investing in bigger data centers to house the large influx of data. Take Google and Facebook, for instance.
Posted by: Mac Pherson | April 11, 2013 at 06:51 PM
Wow! these one is so big, can i know the name of this data center.
Posted by: Pravin Kumar | December 23, 2014 at 12:53 AM
Data centers are not a single thing, but rather, a conglomeration of elements. At a minimum, data centers serve as the principal repositories for all manner of IT equipment, including servers, storage subsystems, networking switches, routers and firewalls, as well as the cabling and physical racks used to organize and interconnect the IT equipment.
Posted by: Navigatorsystem | November 27, 2017 at 06:34 AM
Data Centres are not single thing, but With intent-based networking, network operators to specify how they would like the network to behave, and Apstra automatically configures and servers as the principle responsibility of all the manner of it equipment
Posted by: Cynthia | September 17, 2018 at 06:14 AM