The Data Centre Challenge : Optimising for Future Growth
The Data Centre Challenge : Optimising for Future Growth
Looking forward , high-density data centres will be critical . To support the next-generation cloud , enterprise , and IT infrastructure for high-performance computing , data centres of the future mustbe built for purpose and sustainability while optimising footprint and costs for organisations .
Ward highlights the need for the data centre industry to plan and perhaps , to re-engineer to meet the oncoming challenges . “ One of the major challenges that we face broadly as an industry is looking forward to the enormous growth that has been created by this explosion in compute requirements . That ' s putting huge amounts of pressure on power capacity , particularly in cities and other metropolitan areas where you ' ve got immense amounts of congestion from data centres .
“ Looking forward over the course of the next decade , the power equation for data centres is definitely going to be a challenge in certain cities . We ' ve certainly seen cities suffering , such as in Dublin and Frankfurt , where power availability has come up against supply constraints . At the same time , we ' re seeing huge growth in compute requirements , and therefore power requirements , from data centre usage . It is a real challenge for the industry . And I think it ’ s one that Iceland and Verne Global can help solve .”
How do you solve that challenge ? “ Not all compute needs to sit in those metropolitan , congested locations . Applications and compute hardware are not homogenous . Hardware is specifically chosen to run a certain type of application to maximise performance , efficiency and cost . However , very little attention has been paid to the infrastructure on which the hardware , and by virtue of this , the applications rely . So we must look at the evolution , or perhaps some would call it a revolution , that ' s being driven by the adoption of cloud , that has proven that applications can be made more efficient by optimising their environment and the infrastructure upon which they rely .”
“ One of the greatest challenges that we face as an industry going forward is desegregating those applications and thinking about where applications should sit in the world most effectively and most efficiently for both the applications and the end-user . That ' s why at Verne Global , we ' ve seen a huge number of our customers focusing on high or high-performance compute and taking advantage of the efficiency of our infrastructure that was built for purpose ; infrastructure built from the ground up to serve that kind of need .”
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