Data Center Life Cycle Services Market Competitive Analysis

The global Data Center Life Cycle Services Market is carefully researched in the report while largely concentrating on top players and their business tactics, geographical expansion, market segments, competitive landscape, manufacturing, and pricing and cost structures. Each section of the research study is specially prepared to explore key aspects of the global Data Center Life Cycle Services market. For instance, the market dynamics section digs deep into the drivers, restraints, trends, and opportunities of the global Data Center Life Cycle Services market. With qualitative and quantitative analysis, we help you with thorough and comprehensive research on the global Data Center Life Cycle Services market. We have also focused on SWOT, PESTLE, and Porter’s Five Forces analyses of the global Data Center Life Cycle Services market.

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Key Strategic Developments: The study also includes the key strategic developments of the market, comprising R&D, new product launch, M&A, agreements, collaborations, partnerships, joint ventures, and regional growth of the leading competitors operating in the market on a global and regional scale.

Key Market Features: The report evaluated key market features, including revenue, price, capacity, capacity utilization rate, gross, production, production rate, consumption, import/export, supply/demand, cost, market share, CAGR, and gross margin. In addition, the study offers a comprehensive study of the key market dynamics and their latest trends, along with pertinent market segments and sub-segments.

Analytical Tools: The Global Data Center Life Cycle Services Market report includes the accurately studied and assessed data of the key industry players and their scope in the market by means of a number of analytical tools. The analytical tools such as Porter’s five forces analysis, SWOT analysis, feasibility study, and investment return analysis have been used to analyze the growth of the key players operating in the market.

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Data Center Day: Inspiring the Next Generation of Industry Leaders

The first International Data Center Day will be October 29 as an effort to raise awareness of the data center industry and to inspire the next generation of talent. The initiative, launched by 7×24 Exchange International, is the latest in a series of efforts to address a looming talent gap for data centers and cloud computing infrastructure.

“International Data Center Day is a celebration of the data center industry and the mission critical profession,” said Juli Ierulli, marketing manager of Caterpillar, Inc.. “Our goal for this initiative is to raise awareness of the data center industry and to share the vast variety of careers that are available for the next generation of professionals. By sharing how data centers make a difference in our daily lives and the career opportunities we are helping to ensure the future of the industry.”

The Oct. 29 event, scheduled during the annual 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference, is designed to connect with future generations and ensure a steady flow of skilled labor, enhance the public image of data centers. The events objectives include:

Provide resources to educate people about what data centers are and how they work.

Illustrate the importance of the data center industry on our daily lives.

Share information on pursuing a career as a data center professional.

Create more opportunities for mission critical firms to recruit future employees

As Data Center Frontier noted in our 2019 forecast and executive roundtable, finding quality staff is becoming a challenge, and will grow in urgency in coming years with the graying of the existing workforce. The industry is redoubling efforts to hire and train military veterans, and at least one service provider is refocusing its business to address the growing need for data center construction and facilities management professionals. We showcase current openings for data center professionals at the Data Center Frontier Jobs site (a partnership with Pkaza Critical Facilities Recruiting).

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Wave of Cloud Data Center Growth Forecasted for Emerging Markets

With the biggest data center markets for hyperscale cloud platforms already well served by data center providers – and some of the biggest ones now oversupplied – the largest growth opportunity today is outside those metros, in places that haven’t historically been hot markets for data center real estate.

That’s according to Peter Hopper, co-founder and CEO of the digital infrastructure-focused investment advisor DH Capital. On Tuesday, Hopper delivered his annual market overview at 451 Research’s Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit in Las Vegas. (DH has been one of the HCTS’s biggest sponsors for most of the event’s 15 years running.)

But there are still many population centers around the world that haven’t been saturated with hyperscale cloud infrastructure. Places like Moscow or Budapest haven’t seen the megawatts upon megawatts of data center capacity built and leased in the biggest markets, Hopper said. “I would say that’s probably likely to change going forward.”

As digital content consumption and adoption of cloud services continues growing, companies will need to build data center infrastructure in more densely populated metros to support that growth. “International expansion is key to all the key operators,” he said.

Hopper brought the move into Brazil by Digital Realty as an example. Digital last year paid $1.8 billion for Ascenty, which operates data centers in four Brazilian markets, a deal DH was involved in. The facilities became the San Francisco-based data center provider’s first assets in Latin America.

Seeing cloud adoption picking up and the low level of cloud penetration in Brazil, it was a given that a lot of data center capacity would have to be built there, Hopper said.

“Cloud adoption and cloud growth, both public and private, is exploding worldwide, and that is driving everything,” he said. “It’s the most powerful trend in IT out there, and it’s driving M&A and investment activity across the world.”

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Why is Building a Modernized Data Center so Important for Organizations?

The increase in the demand for digital services causes data centers to have difficulties in complying with all the specifications required of them. For the operation of these centers, large amounts of energy are needed so that nothing fails and the information is available at all times.


For this to happen, it is important to have a good design and correct technical components, which is a challenge for operators as they need to find a balance between managing a complex list of demands and operating according to the standards.

According to Mathias Loacher, Head of Engineering of the 1 & 1 IONOS Data Center, the key elements of a modern data center are:

Availability

When talking about availability, a system of classification by levels of the Uptime Institute is usually used. This system consists of four levels, each with a percentage of availability. The lowest Tier 1 level means 99.67% availability, or 28 hours of inactivity per year. Level 4, on the other hand, means 99.99% availability and only 26 minutes of inactivity per year.

The level of availability varies depending on certain factors such as georredundance, where data centers are built in different areas and where all information is backed up . If one of them falls, the information would be served from another.

Energy efficiency

The energy efficiency of a data center can be improved, but it depends on availability. For example, for a Level 4 installation, redundancy causes a greater need for energy, since additional technical equipment is needed, which can only work with a partial load.

Construction time

The time for the construction of the data center can cause a decrease in the availability of information. For example, in the event that there is no time for testing and correct possible errors that appear.

Easy drive

A modern data center must be able to respond to various needs such as energy distribution, cooling systems and space. If what is sought is to offer greater availability, the infrastructure will be more complex, which translates into a greater number of errors.

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Best Data Center Operator at 2019 NGON & Optical DCI Awards

These recognize the achievements made by operators, data centers and solution providers in the optical networking industry.

It’s been an eventful year for GlobeNet when it comes to award honors. GlobeNet is delighted to announce that it has been recognized as the Best Data Center Operator at the 2019 NGON & Optical DCI Awards. The esteemed awards recognize the achievements made by operators, data centers and solution providers in the optical networking industry. The winners were announced during the NGON & DCI World event, which took place on Wednesday, May 22, at the Acropolis in Nice. This latest award announcement comes just a few days after GlobeNet took home two trophies from the Carrier Community Global 2019 Awards in Berlin, Germany.

“2019 has been quite a productive year for GlobeNet,” states Eduardo Falzoni, CEO of GlobeNet. “We are committed to helping our clients expand and enhance their own network infrastructures – no matter their location. These award honors are a testimony that our hard work and commitment to our current and potential customers is paying off. We are truly thrilled to be recognized as innovators of our industry delivering an exemplary connectivity solutions and user experience.”

With data centers and colocation facilities in Colombia, Brazil and the United States, GlobeNet offers its customers leading class colocation and connectivity services, allowing them to grow as they desire across North and South America. In the US, the company has facilities in New York and Florida, which are key hubs for traffic entering and leaving the North American markets. Likewise, GlobeNet’s data centers in Barranquilla, Colombia as well as in Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil feature Internet Exchange (IX) points that support the high-speed flow of mission-critical traffic throughout the region.

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Artificial Intelligence In Data Centers

Today, however, AI is mostly being used in data centers to improve existing functions and processes. Use cases are focused on delivering tangible operational savings, such as cooling efficiency and alarm suppression/rationalization, as well as predicting known risks with greater accuracy than other technologies can offer.

AI is currently being applied to perform functions and processes faster and more accurately. In other words, not much new, just better. The table is taken from an Uptime Intelligence report Very smart data centers: How artificial intelligence will power operational decisions and shows AI functions/services that are being offered or that are in development; with a few exceptions, they are likely to be familiar to data center managers, particularly those that have already deployed data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software.

So where might AI be applied beyond these examples? We think it is likely that AI will be used to anticipate failure rates, as well as to model costs, budgetary impacts, supply-chain needs and the impact of design changes and configurations. Data centers not yet built could be modeled and simulated in advance, for example, to compare the operational and/or performance profile and total cost of ownership of a Tier II design data center versus a Tier III design.

Meanwhile, we can expect more marketing hype and misinformation, fueled by a combination of AI’s dazzling complexity, which only specialists can deeply understand, and by its novelty in most data centers. For example:

Myth #1: There is a best type of AI for data centers

The best type of AI will depend on the specific task at hand. Simpler big-data approaches (i.e., not AI) can be more suitable in certain situations. For this reason, new “AI-driven” products such as data center management as a service (DMaaS) often use a mix of AI and non-AI techniques.

Myth #2: AI replaces the need for human knowledge

Domain expertise is critical to the usefulness of any big-data approach, including AI. Human data center knowledge is needed to train AI to make reasonable decisions/recommendations and, especially in the early stages of a deployment, to ensure that any AI outcome is appropriate for a particular data center.

Myth #3: Data centers need a lot of data to implement AI

While this is true for those developing AI, it is not the case for those looking to buy the technology. DMaaS and some DCIM systems use prebuilt AI models that can provide limited but potentially useful insights within days.

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Strategies for a Successful Data Center Consolidation

Here are four strategies to ensure your data center consolidation goes smoothly and leads to the cost savings and performance improvements you’re seeking.

1. Understand the Real Cost of Data Center Sprawl

First, it’s important to level set about the costs of not consolidating data centers, once you’ve identified a need to do so. Because there are costs associated with the consolidation, it may seem like the alternative — doing nothing — may actually be an economically viable option.

In reality, that’s not the case. For one thing, the costs of consolidating are one-time expenses; once the consolidation is complete, you’ll start enjoying the savings associated with a smaller data center footprint. But the more important concern is the potential for loss that exists if you maintain a dispersed data center footprint after you’ve identified a need to consolidate. Potential sources of loss include the following:

• Security — The more physical locations you have, the greater your potential for a security breach. The easiest way to hack a data center is to walk through the front door and install malicious software — maybe wearing an AT&T uniform and carrying a clipboard. In addition to digital security infrastructure, data centers have to have physical security personnel, which costs money. Then there’s the potential for a data breach, and, again, the more physical locations you have, the greater your risk of a breach.
• Personnel — Besides guards, every data center needs management personnel to maintain machines, fix problems, and generally ensure that things are running smoothly. Reducing the number of physical locations you maintain lets you cut your personnel costs.
• Natural disasters — If one or more of your data centers currently sits in an area prone to flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, or some other natural disaster, your risk of loss is tremendous. In an era of increasingly severe weather events, leaving a data center in a vulnerable location is asking for a major outage. Consolidate to safer geographies to avoid a major unplanned expense.

Once you’ve convinced everyone who needs to be convinced that data center consolidation is not optional, it’s time to consider the logistics of consolidating.

2. Upgrade Equipment for Greater Efficiency

In most cases, consolidating your data centers will require you to purchase at least some new equipment. Making these purchases strategically can help you minimize downtime and achieve peak efficiency as soon as possible. 

The right strategy, of course, depends on your consolidation plan. 

For example, if you’re reducing the amount of space you take up in a colo facility, you’ll want to find ways to reduce your total rackspace and the total amount of traffic you take up on the local fabric. Getting all of your equipment to one physical area can help achieve this — in that configuration, you may be able to use the minimal number of switches for all east-west traffic and minimize east-west traffic on the colo’s fabric.

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Check out the latest in Deals,Development and Disruptive Technology in the Data Center Industry

• Data Foundry to add 27,000 Square Feet of White Floor Space and 4MW to its Houston 2 Data Center Campus: Data Foundry will construct a new 27,000-square-foot data hall with 4 MW of capacity as an addition to the company’s 350,000-square-foot master-planned Houston 2 data center campus in the Greenpoint district. Driven by customer demand for more capacity and Houston business growth, the project is expected to be completed and ready for customer deployments in Q4 2019. Houston 2 provides dedicated office space, lockers, showers, a washer and dryer, a break room and a kitchen, provisioning for tenants and employees who may have to remain at the data center throughout major weather events. Data Foundry’s facilities not only protect mission-critical IT infrastructure, they protect the people who run it and the customers who utilize it, ensuring business continuity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
  
• NYI Joins The Independent Data Center Alliance: New York Internet (NYI) has joined the Independent Data Center Alliance (IND-DCA), an industry-led group of single-digit data center operators with a mission of advancing the market presence of independent data center operators. By joining the alliance, NYI will leverage its core competency in delivering a comprehensive set of high-touch hybrid IT and edge solutions across cloud, colocation and bare metal to meet growing global demand for next-generation connectivity. By becoming a member of the IND-DCA, NYI aligns its capabilities and market presence to more effectively provide and promote its flexible integrated hybrid IT solutions and strategic partnerships in key markets across the U.S. Having just acquired a new facility in Chicago, the company’s expanded footprint will offer both new and existing clients additional options for disaster recovery and business continuity while providing international clients access to its substantial footprint in New York City and low-latency access to the Chicago market.

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2019 Data Center Industry Survey Results

The Uptime Institute 2019 data center survey is the largest and most comprehensive in the industry. The findings discussed in this report reveal what owners and operators around the world are thinking, doing and planning in the areas of efficiency, resiliency, workload placement, climate change, staffing, and new technology adoption.

Major themes in the 2019 survey results include:

• Industry continues to struggle in managing complexity of hybrid infrastructure
• Increase in proportion of customer outages related to network and software failures
• Still a strong dependence on privately-owned or operated enterprise data centers
• IT workloads continue to move to cloud and SaaS providers
• Enterprise data center capacity increasing, but colo and cloud capacity increasing faster
• Lack of visibility, transparency and accountability are key roadblocks to further cloud adoption
• Outages are increasingly spanning multiple data centers as users adopt hybrid infrastructure
• Industry continues to struggle with staffing, finding it hard to hire and retain qualified staff.

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Top Data Center Trends To Watch In 2019

1. Limited Construction Workforce Triggered Data Center Innovation

The lack of professional construction workers has a serious impact on the launch of data for hyperscale services and similar collocation providers. This condition is expected to continue in 2019. This is exacerbated by the fact that construction is the only sector that has not shown an optimal productivity in the last 50 years.

But behind it all, innovation will continue from year to year and will increase in 2019. Innovation has been going on for years and will increase in 2019. To meet the increasingly challenging schedule, prefabrication will be further enhanced. A cooling unit outside the data center and UPS in one box is a good start, but the industry must take the next step. To overcome the problem of lack of workforce companies need to find a way to make a working strategy that is more effective by parallel while also gathering other workers to be able to meet demand in this digital era because technology development will continue to grow rapidly in this year.

Moreover, 3D technology will also be used as a monitoring tool while helping to track the progress of projects being worked on. Robots and automated technology are also expected to have an important role in 2019 but unfortunately this has not been widely encountered at this time, maybe in the next few years this new technology will be used in general.

2. The Role of Connections Becomes More Dominant

So far connectivity has become an important factor and has a big role in the development of data centers. But in 2019 the connection role will become more dominant. With the increasing need for greater data storage capacity (hyperscale) this certainly requires faster and more stable connection support. IT Hybrid and geographically dispersed data spreads have forced companies to rely more on connections. In addition, from the consumer side it will also be urgent to accelerate the pace of connectivity that exists because the internet has become a part of their daily lives.

3. Digital Transformation Encourages Technology to Be a Source of Profit
According to a survey from Accenture, so far only 13% of companies are aware of the benefits of their digital investments. This will change in 2019, where business and IT will be aligned and interrelated. By utilizing more IT, operational efficiency can be improved, more problems solved, and users can get a better and personal experience. Increasing productivity can be an alternative to cover the gaps in the industry and there are many other reasons that make IT will be seen as a source of profit making many companies are more concerned with business profits even though in a fraudulent manner.

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