each day is expected to increase further from the creation
and development of novel consumer technologies, such
as virtual reality and autonomous vehicles. These are long
term trends which we’re confident will sustain growth in
the industry. In the next few years, we’ll see infrastructure
demands explode, not just from business functions but
across society.
Should data centre industry companies specialise
or is diversification essential?
In the data centre industry diversification is crucial.
Specialising in this industry means that a data centre will only
be able to cater to a specific set of needs. However, in order
to keep up with the constant evolution of the digital world, it
requires a diverse range of approaches.
Data centres are becoming an important meeting point
for businesses – the place where all transactions, applications,
and devices come together to exchange data. The data centre
industry must remain flexible to ensure the interconnection
ability of data centres and the services they offer align with
customer goals, be it colocation, a data hall, or full-scale site.
Providers must be able to accommodate a range of
customers and help them respond to changes in demand for
access to data. Alongside this, they must maximise the use of
their own data to gain a competitive advantage by providing
efficient, highly secure, and low latency access to important
ecosystems and cloud platforms, and diversification is at the
heart of this.
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What does the data centre of tomorrow look like?
The data centre of tomorrow is actually one that is
flexible, agile and able to meet customers’ future needs
today. Customers’ value chain is seeing a reordering, with
new distribution systems, new infrastructure and completely
new business and manufacturing models. Planning the
right solution to enable the exchange needed between the
growing number of company locations, customers, partners,
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vendors and users is growing increasingly complex, and data
centre providers must be ready with a flexible environment
to respond rapidly to these changes in demand for access to
data.
All of these elements require interconnection, data
storage and analysis, and we in the data centre world sit
at the heart of this. Our job is to help our customers unlock
and achieve their digital ambitions. We’ll be the trusted
foundation and enablers of that revolution.
How is Digital Realty keeping abreast of current
and future industry developments, and what lies
ahead for the company?
Research conducted by Digital Realty found that data will
be worth £96.4 billion to the UK alone by 2025. With this,
we’ll see businesses’ data strategies becoming increasingly
sophisticated and the demand for connectivity will continue
to boom.
Demand for rapid and low-cost interconnection will
increase as businesses look to adopt better data analytics
and AI. Those technologies need multiple clouds, databases
and software apps to link and exchange huge amounts
of data at speed. Locating your data close to your data
community is vital for ensuring fast, reliable and secure
interconnections. We’re seeing the creation of such
communities as a key driver of growth.
Creating the infrastructure to deliver this is complicated
for businesses so they will look to data centre providers
with the right interconnected communities to drive their
IT strategy forward. Data centres that offer a flexible
environment are key for the future. For example, our
strategy has enabled us to develop a range of solutions
for customers to meet their digital transformation needs,
whether that’s with cloud services, the edge, highly
secure data storage or low latency, we're always focused
on providing the right environment for our customers to
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