{"id":11921,"date":"2018-04-03T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/news-5690\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:00:09","slug":"news-5690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/news-5690\/","title":{"rendered":"The Data Center Enters a New Age with Edge Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Damien Wells| Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:00:25 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

At DCD Zettastructure in London, I spoke with Kevin Brown,\u00a0the SVP of Innovation & CTO for Schneider Electric\u2019s IT Division, about the ways he\u2019s seen the data center sector being transformed over the last 10 years. His answer was simple, in 10 years we\u2019ve seen mass migration into the centralized architecture of cloud computing, and now a swing towards decentralization as\u00a0edge computing<\/a>\u00a0starts to grow.<\/p>\n

Brown said, \u201cIt\u2019s funny, when we looked back and we were trying to understand what\u2019s been the impact of some of the things that we\u2019ve done in the industry. For example, if you think about the term \u2018cloud computing,\u2019 it didn\u2019t exist before 2006. So, in this last 10 or 11 years we\u2019ve gone from cloud computing being invented and now today people are talking about edge computing, which is going to be another wave of complexity that\u2019s hitting us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adapting to Trends like Cloud Computing and Edge Data Centers<\/h2>\n

I asked Brown how trends like cloud and edge computing have affected what Schneider Electric does as a company, providing data center physical infrastructure and management software.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re at an inflection point in the industry,\u201d he commented. \u201cIf you look at what we\u2019ve done over the last decade, by making our products more efficient, by advocating best practices in data center design, build and operations, we\u2019ve eliminated 80% of the losses via the physical infrastructure layer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact,\u201d Brown continued, \u201cwe\u2019ve gotten pretty good at making data centers efficient today. But if we look forward to the next 10 years – and if this insatiable demand for data that humans seem to have continues – \u00a0those strategies won\u2019t be enough. We\u2019re starting to look at it and say, \u2018okay where\u2019s the next 80% improvement going to come from?\u2019 You simply won\u2019t get there by making more efficient products or doing the things that we\u2019ve done the past a little better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edge Computing Driving Change in Data Center Architecture<\/h2>\n

\u201cAs an industry, we really need to start looking at things differently \u2013 but I think that\u2019s going to be a challenge,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

As we move forward, efficiency will continue to be a benchmark, and it\u2019s natural that the industry will continue to strive for more efficient products and solutions. \u201cBut,\u201d said Brown, \u201cbetter products are not going to be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead we\u2019re going to need to start looking at the entire eco-system and energy consumption. At Schneider Electric, there are four key vectors that we\u2019re looking at. These include the continuation of developing ever more efficient solutions, as well as more effective deployment practices \u2013 and by the way, I think there\u2019s lots of opportunities for using new cooling strategies and we\u2019re doing a lot of work in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third vector concerns both the supply and demand-side of power. There are interesting strategies there to optimise how loads are being managed in the data center. And the fourth vector is to look at edge computing and the transformation that it will bring to the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edge Computing will Disrupt the Way Industry Manages Data Centers<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe emergence of edge computing represents a big shift from the way things were a decade ago. As an operator then, I would have been worried about my big centralised data centers. As edge comes of age, organizations may have hundreds of, even thousands of, edge data centers to monitor and manage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tremendous data center infrastructure management challenge to make sure that distributed IT facilities are secure. Software is going to be a key enabler to facilitate this shift. To successfully handle all four vectors is going to require collaboration throughout the entire eco-system; from the supply side to the demand side. Software will play a key role enabling and optimizing energy consumption, together with the efficiency of the data center in the context of overall facility energy use and ultimately the carbon footprint that we\u2019re creating as the industry services the requirements of the connected age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Download the Edge Computing White Paper<\/h2>\n

Left with wanting more? Feel free to read our White Paper #256,\u00a0Why Cloud Computing is Requiring us to Rethink Resiliency at the Edge<\/em><\/a>, to understand which best practices will ensure your businesses critical applications are always connected.<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Damien Wells| Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:00:25 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

At DCD Zettastructure in London, I spoke with Kevin Brown,\u00a0the SVP of Innovation & CTO for Schneider Electric\u2019s IT Division, about the ways he\u2019s seen the data center sector being… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n

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