The future digital transformation (DX) economy will require a highly accurate, fully automated, lights-out* data centre that uses predictive analytics to reduce downtime. This is the promise, but IDC notes that the current reality for many older organisations is a data centre environment that still contains significant technical complexity despite the efficiency and agility afforded by the cloud.
"This discussion has been weighted heavily on the business aspects of digital transformation and tended to neglect the complexity of the technical data centre environment. There is now a perfect confluence of business and ICT trends creating the necessary alignment,” says Dr Glen Duncan, Senior Research Manager, Datacenter, IDC Asia/Pacific.
The research consultancy shares the top data centre predictions which will make the biggest impact to organisations in the Asia Pacific region for 2017 and beyond.
Data centre strategy: by 2018, 35% of companies in data-intensive industries will adopt formal data centre planning, sourcing, and governance processes to speed digital transformation efforts.
Next-gen workloads: by 2019, 25% of organisations' data centre investments will be supporting next-generation contextual workloads such as cognitive/artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and augmented reality.
Pay-as-you-go/use models: such models will account for 25% of on-premise and off- premise physical IT and data centre asset spending by 2018, strengthening business and IT partnerships.
Smart(er) data centres: in 2017, only 20% of enterprises will deploy software-defined data centres on schedule because capacity constraints in critical facilities delay transformation efforts.
Multicloud operations: as enterprises react to changing data use patterns, 45% of their ICT spend in 2018 will be in a mix of colocation, hosted cloud, and public cloud data centres.
Local cloud delivery: by 2019, 20% of on-premise infrastructure will support geo-dependent, next-generation workloads linked directly to public/hosted clouds through infrastructure-as-a-service/platform-as-a-service (IaaS/PaaS) stacks on integrated appliances.
Rack-level IT: in three years, rack-level hyperconverged and hyperscale bundles will account for 30% of server/storage/network deployments, driving changes in power and cooling design.
Easier connectivity: in 2017, 25% of enterprises will use policy-based overlay networks to move data and workloads between data centres, clouds, and branch offices quickly and securely.
Power assurance: by 2019, leading data centre operators will reduce reliance on the grid, with 10% of all data centre energy needs being met by dedicated, privately generated power sources.
Hardware failures: in the next two years, 30% of large and midsize businesses will suffer a service failure due to mismatches in power delivery and IT workload profiles caused by hardware obsolescence.
"As organisations digitally transform, their underlying cloud and data centre infrastructure must mature at the same rate and in parallel," says Cynthia Ho, Senior Research Analyst, Datacenter, IDC Asia/Pacific. "If it doesn't, line-of-business and the IT department will be out of alignment. This will create tensions between the two areas and the larger the gap, the greater the tension. Apart from the shackling of the business, this will also contribute to the proliferation of shadow IT."
"This discussion has been weighted heavily on the business aspects of digital transformation and tended to neglect the complexity of the technical data centre environment. There is now a perfect confluence of business and ICT trends creating the necessary alignment,” says Dr Glen Duncan, Senior Research Manager, Datacenter, IDC Asia/Pacific.
The research consultancy shares the top data centre predictions which will make the biggest impact to organisations in the Asia Pacific region for 2017 and beyond.
Data centre strategy: by 2018, 35% of companies in data-intensive industries will adopt formal data centre planning, sourcing, and governance processes to speed digital transformation efforts.
Next-gen workloads: by 2019, 25% of organisations' data centre investments will be supporting next-generation contextual workloads such as cognitive/artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and augmented reality.
Pay-as-you-go/use models: such models will account for 25% of on-premise and off- premise physical IT and data centre asset spending by 2018, strengthening business and IT partnerships.
Smart(er) data centres: in 2017, only 20% of enterprises will deploy software-defined data centres on schedule because capacity constraints in critical facilities delay transformation efforts.
Multicloud operations: as enterprises react to changing data use patterns, 45% of their ICT spend in 2018 will be in a mix of colocation, hosted cloud, and public cloud data centres.
Local cloud delivery: by 2019, 20% of on-premise infrastructure will support geo-dependent, next-generation workloads linked directly to public/hosted clouds through infrastructure-as-a-service/platform-as-a-service (IaaS/PaaS) stacks on integrated appliances.
Rack-level IT: in three years, rack-level hyperconverged and hyperscale bundles will account for 30% of server/storage/network deployments, driving changes in power and cooling design.
Easier connectivity: in 2017, 25% of enterprises will use policy-based overlay networks to move data and workloads between data centres, clouds, and branch offices quickly and securely.
Power assurance: by 2019, leading data centre operators will reduce reliance on the grid, with 10% of all data centre energy needs being met by dedicated, privately generated power sources.
Hardware failures: in the next two years, 30% of large and midsize businesses will suffer a service failure due to mismatches in power delivery and IT workload profiles caused by hardware obsolescence.
"As organisations digitally transform, their underlying cloud and data centre infrastructure must mature at the same rate and in parallel," says Cynthia Ho, Senior Research Analyst, Datacenter, IDC Asia/Pacific. "If it doesn't, line-of-business and the IT department will be out of alignment. This will create tensions between the two areas and the larger the gap, the greater the tension. Apart from the shackling of the business, this will also contribute to the proliferation of shadow IT."
Finally, IDC predicts that the hybrid data centre environment will continue to proliferate as the new normal in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ). This is reflected in prediction No. 5, where 45% of enterprise ICT spend in 2018 will be a mix of on- and off-premise environments. With the extension of the hybrid cloud to the edge with mobile devices and sensors, IDC expects this environment will only become more dispersed and sophisticated.
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IDC’s top 10 data centre predictions are presented in full in the following reports: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2017 Predictions – APeJ Implications and IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2017 Predictions. Visit the FutureScapes Library for more predictions.
IDC is hosting a free webcast, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2017 Predictions – APeJ Implications on January 12, 2017 1pm to 2pm Singapore time, to be led by Dr Duncan. Register for the webcast
*A lights-out data centre is one which is separated from the rest of the organisation so that access can be minimised. Access to a data centre leads to environmental fluctuations such as in temperature that can affect sensitive equipment.
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