Tsunami of data is coming – are modern data centres ready?

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At Vertiv’s Accelerate 2.0 event speakers outlined why increased data centre efficiency and optimisation is important.

Tsunami of data is coming – are modern data centres ready?Eben Owen, senior business director for Anglophone Africa at the Uptime Institute.

These are some of the findings of the 13th annual Uptime Institute’s Global Data Centre Survey, which was unpacked by Eben Owen, senior business director for Anglophone Africa at the Uptime Institute, at ITWeb andAccording to Owen, these concerns are only exacerbated by the incredible rise in the amount of data the world is currently generating and consuming.

To give an idea of just how much data we are currently consuming, he equated it to around 300 square feet of data centre space or one yottabyte of data. “If you were to download a yottabyte at home using a gigabit fibre connection it would take about 11 trillion years to do so. That’s a pretty big number.

 

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