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reach – not millions of customers, but hundreds of millions
or even billions. But the second and real advantage is to
have ‘hyperscale’ data centres specifically designed to
accommodate and work with such a massive customer base.
What’s hyperscale?
The term hyperscale describes a data centre architecture
that's designed to scale quickly and seamlessly to a
massive and expanding population of users and customers,
while maintaining reliability, performance and flexibility
for ongoing development. Until recently there was
nothing available that could deliver such a service, so
those giants went ahead to design and build their own
hardware and software so they could control every detail
and achieve unmatched efficiency. This required teams
of computer scientists and specialist skills to manipulate
every configurable element – something that could not be
achieved using off the shelf solutions.
By the end of last year there were nearly 400 such
hyperscale data centres in the world, nearly half of them
in the USA. There was also a growing number of specialist
providers of smart interconnect solutions specifically
designed for exceptional performance and minimal latency
in order to serve this market.
What has changed is that those same providers now
have their eyes on an exciting opportunity: to apply their
experience and advanced technology to simplify the
deployment and lower the cost of hyperscaling to bring
it within reach of medium to large enterprises. This is
wonderful news for thousands of enterprises that will benefit
enormously from hyperscaling. For the providers it also
opens up a far larger market. Here are five key factors that
must be considered to take advantage of this opportunity:
1 High performance
The faster the data travels through a complex system
the more responsive and quick will be the benefits. The
leading solution providers have been providing an end to
end portfolio of 25G, 50G, and 100G adapters, cables, and
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