Data Center 2025

Data Center Management and Control: Status Quo or Self-Healing?

Participants in Data Center 2025 almost all agreed that progress will be made in data center management and control, but there was no clear consensus on how far it will advance.

Data Center 2025 Report

Exploring the Possibilities summarizes the findings of the initiative to identify the industry’s vision of the data center in the year 2025.

Global Conversation

The world is talking about Data Center 2025. See what they’re saying and share your vision for the future of the data center.

Scenario 1: Inching Into the Future

Current trends of virtualization and packing more processing power into smaller packages continue to shape the industry but the basic landscape remains the same: enterprises own select IT functions supported by hyperscale facilities in a hybrid cloud model.

Scenario 2: Efficiency is Everything

Hyperscale facilities have been successful at driving down the cost of computing and the value proposition of shifting computing resources to the cloud has become so powerful that most enterprises have shuttered in-house facilities and purchase computing as a utility.

Scenario 3: Innovation Drives Performance

Innovation has revolutionized the data center industry, solving the key challenges of efficiency, scalability and security in a way that has allowed businesses to continue to use information technology to create competitive advantage.