Next-generation data centers help in fast-changing corporate and technology landscape

Sanjay Virnave, General Manager And Country Head, Altos Computing India 

Growth of next-generation Data center market

According to the Mordor Intelligence report, The Indian data center market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8% over the forecast period 2021 to 2026. The instant adoption of cloud-based business operations has helped businesses to obtain data management capacities to manage huge amounts of data that are being created.

The growing business needs for advanced processor technologies, complex data evaluation, and high storage demands are accrediting to the development of next-generation data center infrastructures. Today’s businesses require extremely consistent products, more servers in the data center, and secondary data centers to persist exist in the aggressive and responsive environment. Next-generation data centers help the increasing requirement for a very reliable fast-changing corporate and technology landscape. Also, these data centers meet the growing expectations for high speed, scalability, and availability.

Competition in the Data center server CPU innovation market
Industry is moving towards data center solutions which are consumption based and pay per use. The front runners of Cloud providers have been successfully offering this over cloud for years. While historically Intel has been the leader in data center server CPU’s, is now facing competition from AMD. We also have a few more players emerging strong in this space.

This stiff competition brings in innovation around speed agility and new feature launches. Intel with its Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPU’s and AMD with its EPYC processors are competing with each other in this space. With this new use cases are coming up and benefitting the cloud service providers and end customers.

Intel recently announced ultra-efficient CPU family code named Sierra Forest developing a new, broad-based data centre architecture strategy, for continuing development and leadership in the data centre industry. The growth will be fuelled by these new next-generation cloud, network, and edge solutions. Meanwhile Nvidia which was a GPU provider has jumped into this with Arm-based data center CPU for AI and high-performance computing and claims will provide 10 times faster AI performance. The new data center CPU, named Grace, creates new competition for CPU rivals Intel and AMD when it arrives in early 2023.

IoT adoption to support next-generation Data centers
The Internet of Things has seen the globe turn into another era of advancement, as people and organizations embrace the growth it brings. IoT devices are everywhere and will play a major role in the future to assist enterprises or individuals to engage in communication more easily and effectively. That’s also what Acer is focusing on at the moment. Through Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, Acer is determined to offer a smarter efficient, and convenient lifestyle for people.

5g is also the growth we will see in the year 2022- 23. The power, bandwidth, and speed of 5G products will transform how businesses work. The industry will also become more resilient and competitive. This will increase the demand for 5G products and encourage us to bring more options, innovations, and opportunities to the industry. The government’s announcement on 5G auction and facilitate private players to roll out services before March 2023 is a push to enable growth and job opportunities. The focus on 5G technology will help in data speeds, reliability, increased network capacity & uniform user experience. The lower latency and higher bandwidths will benefit multiple sectors and especially the consumer technology, content consumption, gaming, segment to name a few. 5G is also a great push for the gaming industry, it facilitates innovative gaming products with real-time capabilities, when blended with AR and VR it enhances the experience.

Expectation of high-level consolidation by 2023
Consolidation is a little distance away as a lot of innovation is expected around performance per watt, segment features and cutting-edge competitiveness. Intel’s road map up to 2024 talks of bringing two optimized platforms Performance-Core and Efficient Core into one single industry defining platform. Similarly, AMD is to launch a next gen EPYC server CPU that features up to 96 cores. AMD plans to ramp us the count to 128 with new slate of EPYC CPU’s in 2023 that would be tailored for cloud customers. Nvidia is also making moves with its ARM based grace CPU targeting HPC customers, slated to be launched in 2023. Hence, the competition is heating up and the chip makers are evolving new products to tackle Power consumption, Cooling, efficiency, software management etc. which would be the key to the growth to the next level.