The base of the field is large, and the current revenue of the private cloud market is still higher than that of the public cloud. For example, according to the 451 Research 2018 survey, the revenue of the private cloud market in 2018 is 43% higher than that of the public cloud market.

In addition, if the development of the cloud computing market in the future is in line with the forecast, even these cloud computing companies may not be able to cope with the establishment of such a large number of data centers. In this case, cloud computing vendors are bound to be hosted in the data center. Service providers need help or cooperation.

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If the analyst’s predictions are true, how many resources do we need to add in the next few years? This is not a good assessment, but the measurement unit is difficult to choose. Is the rack as the unit or the data center as the basic unit? In response to this problem, the industry’s more accepted approach is to use racks as the basic evaluation unit, because the size of the data center does not currently have a unified evaluation standard. In order to find the answer to the question, we first make two assumptions:

(1) Assume that most of the racks in the data center are standard 8KW racks.

(2) Assume that each cabinet can receive $45,000 in revenue per month when it is fully loaded (8 kW).

Based on the above two assumptions, let’s start our inference and see how many basic resource devices we need to add in order to support the development of cloud computing in recent years.

In the previous article, we cited the evaluation data of three evaluation organizations for cloud computing revenue in the next three years. Here we use the most well-known Gartner as an example to estimate the number of basic equipment needed in the next three years. Gartner predicts that the global cloud computing market will grow by $102 billion in the 36 months between 2018 and 2021. This is equivalent to an increase of $2.8 billion per month. In the above we assume that each full-load standard rack will generate approximately $45,000 in revenue per month, and the global average will need to add approximately 63,000 standard racks per month. With a power of 8 kW at full load per standard rack, the new data center will have a capacity of 500 megawatts per month.

In this author’s special investigation, the average cost of building a new 1 MW data center worldwide is 8 million US dollars to 10 million US dollars. Assuming that the cost of new data centers will remain the same in the next three years (generally increasing year by year), in order to meet the needs of 500 megawatts per month in the next three years, the world will be used in the data center every month for the next three years. Newly builtThis is about $4 billion to $5 billion.

From the results we have calculated, we need to build or rebuild a large number of data centers in the next three years. So the question is, how can we guarantee that such a large number of data centers can be provided in the next three years? Another problem is that we have no other way than to build a new data center. The answer is yes, that is, integrating existing data centers, upgrading old data centers, modernizing data centers, and revitalizing old data centers in the next three years.

Data Center Modernization

As a programmer, we will only pay attention to the software level update in most cases. In fact, as the infrastructure of the cloud computing platform, the modernization of the data center in the next few years is also crucial. In order to adapt to the next few years (not only in the next few years, as long as the upper-layer applications are developing, the data centers that rely on them must also be developed), the development of cloud services, the data center must maintain progress on the technical level, so as to avoid the backwardness of technology and lead to competitiveness. The next drop. If the data center can’t keep up with the technical iteration, it may also bring risks to the upper-level business. For example, if the data center does not keep pace with the times at the security level, the data center is vulnerable to new and complex network attacks. There is no precedent in this regard. From the perspective of the increasingly frequent cyber attacks in recent years, it can also reflect the technological upgrading pressure faced by the data center in the future.

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The rows and rows of racks in the data center, different devices have their own location and label, very similar to our city, students who have been to the data center should have this experience. The integration of the data center is similar to the urban transformation. Through the transformation of the old data center, resource integration, structural optimization, system migration, network transformation, etc., the old data center can be made more efficient, economical and reliable.

Students who have been in contact with the data center to maintain this piece should know that data center engineers and maintenance personnel basically maintain the principle that they will not move without damage. This situation is not a case, it can be said that it is normal. In recent years, users’ new demands for data and increasingly serious security risks require data center managers to gradually change their past work methods. They need to gradually change from the passive work mode to the active mode, which requires active cooperation. The above business side maximizes the efficiency of existing infrastructure resources and accelerates the development of applications and underlying IT facilities.

In the above, we have learned that the future technological development is urgently needed for the modernization of data centers.The modernization of the data center faces a lot of preliminary work. From the data center transformation projects that the author has learned, the whole modernization process needs to invest a lot of time and cost, but the cost of data center modernization needs to be paid in the long run. It is worth it. Let’s take a look at the current industry-specific measures for the modernization and updating of data centers.

1. Continuous technical update

In most enterprise data centers, the replacement of old equipment is done after the equipment is damaged. However, in reality, old and outdated equipment usually requires more maneuvering and maintenance costs, and may There is a risk of affecting the user’s existing business.

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For this, it is generally recommended that companies establish asset tracking, and each file must be built for each existing device. At the same time, managers need to know the service life of each old device and whether it is under warranty. The cloud platform administrators at the upper level of the data center should contact the equipment room management personnel to confirm the equipment when the suspected hardware equipment problem is found in the upper-level monitoring system, because the actual equipment is used in the case of some equipment in the upcoming room when there is no problem. The alarm platform is sometimes not found. After confirming that it is a hardware device problem, the management personnel of the equipment room need to update the device as soon as possible.

In addition, it is generally recommended to have infrastructure management software (DCIM) in the data center, so that data center managers can quickly understand the data center components that will be phased out without relying on the upper-level cloud platform administrators. In addition, the data center management personnel can also know the power consumption of each key device according to the DCIM system, so that an alarm can be issued before the equipment failure, and the management personnel are reminded to intervene in time.

2. Develop a workflow

With the DCIM system specification data center asset management efforts, DCIM workflows can help us track almost all asset management efforts in each data center.

The data center management personnel must indicate the operation of this operation, the time spent in this operation, and the executor of this operation in the DCIM system every time the configuration change of the device is performed. If there is an abnormality in the case, you need to indicate the attention point of this operation to prevent subsequent managers from stepping on the pit again during operation.

5. Virtualization transformation

We know that virtualization can not only make full use of the underlying resources, but also reduce the risk of some workloads. Although the performance level of some software in a virtualized system is not as high as that directly deployed on the hardware, in most cases, the performance of the hardware will not be exhausted, but will remain at a low level. The rest of the computing power can be used rationally with virtualization, so virtualization transformations will have greater flexibility, control, and control.

The DCIM solution is still the core management software for working in modern data centers. With DCIM data center managers, resources of the entire virtualization layer can be allocated and tracked, and the underlying resources in the data center can be effectively utilized.

Last words

From the actual demand of the market, no matter what kind of forecasting method we use, we need a large number of data centers in the next few years, especially in the context of the commercialization of 5G. In order to ensure that the future data center can meet the needs of the market, the transformation and new construction of the data center in the next few years must be optimized in terms of cost control, machine efficiency, power density and rapid expansion capability.

Modular design can increase the efficiency of data center deployment, especially for very large data centers. Therefore, in the subsequent evaluation of the managed service provider, whether the service provider adopts the modular construction method to construct the data center is one of the evaluation criteria.

DCIM is still the core management software in the data center. To meet the needs of the ever-changing technology ecosystem in the next few years, it is recommended that every enterprise that wants to modernize its data center introduce DCIM into its own data center management. .

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Cloud computing will make the data center disappear?