Silicon Valley-based Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network, has launched a campaign to explore business imperatives and IT trends that are reshaping the future of data centres and evolving hybrid IT models. The initiative will include multiple global partners, communities and stakeholder groups to develop insights and discussions in identifying a new emerging model for agile, business-responsive IT delivery and next-generation data centres.
The BPI Network’s “Transform to Better Perform” campaign incorporates a range of open channels of insight and conversation for “change-oriented business and technology leaders, as well as data centre and IT professionals”. The programme includes a global advisory board of senior business and IT leaders, with sponsorship and contributions from the likes of Dimension Data and DatacenterDynamics.
The programme’s introductory report, “Accelerate How You Innovate: Data Centre Evolution in the Era of the Cloud,” is available for free download. It is based on interviews with executives and technology experts around the world and finds organisations are moving steadily toward a new hybrid model for data centres and networks that embraces the cloud.
“Organisations around the world are in the midst of rethinking their data centre and IT strategies to make information and technology more responsive to the needs of business and more efficient in the face of growing requirements,” said Kevin Leahy, group general manager of Data Centre Solutions, Dimension Data. “Enterprises are testing and adopting new hybrid cloud operating models, software-defined processes, managed services, virtualisation technologies and more to get much more from their infrastructure, people and processes.”
The report cites some of the changing conditions that are driving data centre development.
Some 90% of the world’s data has been created in just the past two years. Global data centre traffic will triple between 2012 and 2017, from 2.6 zettabytes to 7.7 zettabytes. Global technology spending is expected to exceed $3.8 trillion in 2015. Spending on data centres is expected to reach $185 billion globally in 2015 and $203 billion in 2016. By 2017, two-thirds of all workloads will be processed in cloud data centres, growing at five times the rate of traditional workloads within the same period. By 2018, three out of four data centre workloads will be processed in the cloud.
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