High-quality, reliable, scalable services and infrastructure to drive Data Center growth

Vimal Kaw, Head, Data Center Services, NTT

Growth of next-generation Data center market

With holistic and across-the-spectrum digital transformation taking place, the multi-tenant data centers are witnessing accelerated growth. The prevailing circumstances have underlined two key change areas that will dominate the future of the data center business.
1.  Rise of smart colocation data centers
2.  Switch from the convention of lock-ins to pay-as-you-go model

The data center industry will now see the service providers increasingly expand their portfolios to offer end-to-end ‘as-a-service’ solutions spread across infrastructure, networking, digital productivity enhancement, cloud, data recovery and cybersecurity arenas. High-quality, reliable, and scalable services as well as infrastructure will drive this growth.

A Challenge or Opportunity
This is definitely an opportunity for us, and we are well prepared to cater to the entire spectrum of digital services for our clients all over the world. We are rapidly building new infrastructure with a focus on existing and emerging needs, environmental sustainability, and democratization of digital access in the new normal. We are excited about the next generation of data centers that we are helping evolve.

Competition in the Data center server CPU innovation market
Digitization and evolution of 5G, multi-cloud ecosystems, and the rising importance of network edge among the enterprise customers globally, is creating an exponential surge in demand for chip advancements. It is good to see Intel and AMD race towards creation of innovative, next-generation CPU technologies. We believe that this competition between these two companies, and other chip makers, augurs well for the technology sector, as it will constantly push towards performance enhancement, and diversity.

IoT adoption to support next-generation data centers
IoT is going to play a great role in the growth of next-generation DCs due to its ability to monitor, and automate operations. The AI/IoT technologies are capable of helping DCs achieve superior resource optimization, lower power consumption, automation, and security etc.  

Expectation of high-level consolidation by 2023
Consolidation and restructuring are part of the evolution in technology sector. By consolidating our different businesses under one umbrella, we have gained a decisive edge over our competitors in several markets, and we foresee such consolidation, M&As, take place in 2023 as well.