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RESEARCH, ANALYSIS & TRENDS

IDC’s datacenter predictions for the

Asia Pacific region

IDC just revealed its datacenter predictions for the Asia So too is the rate of change and growth. As enterprises
Pacific region as well as its view on how datacenter rapidly transform their underlying datacenters, the
modernization and automation, edge datacenters, environment must mature at the same rate. If there is
consumption-based procurement and software-defined misalignment, business will be hampered, and shadow
datacenters will impact organizations in the region in IT will proliferate.
the next three years. The research firm believes the
current pressure on enterprises to digitally transform According to Duncan, some of the top datacenter
and become “digitally native” can only occur if the predictions that will impact organizations in Asia Pacific
underlying datacenter architecture and infrastructure is (Excluding japan) in the next 3 years are:
in place. The digital economy that is upon us is
demanding a highly accurate, fully automated, lights-out Consumption-Based IT: By 2020, consumption-based
datacenter environment that uses predictive analytics to procurement in datacenters will have eclipsed
reduce downtime, IDC is convinced. traditional procurement through improved "as a
Service" Models, thus accounting for as much as 50%
“Datacenter facility and IT infrastructure is maturing at a of enterprises' IT infrastructure spending.
rapid rate. It is getting smarter, denser, more
automated, more integrated and software-defined,” Smart Edge Datacenters: By 2021, critical
says Dr. Glen Duncan, Senior Research Manager of infrastructure in 35% of enterprise datacenters will be
Domain Group, IDC Asia/Pacific. operating autonomously while the use of autonomous
IT in intelligent edge locations will be even greater as
At the micro-level, technologies such as integrated organizations seek to link core and edge resources to
infrastructure, hyper converged appliances, software- support digital transformation initiatives.
defined storage, flash storage, software-defined
networks and datacenter information management are Service Assurance: In 2019, 60% of digital services will
providing the foundations for this transformation. While fail to meet desired customer adoption levels because
at the macro-level, the multi-cloud environment the providers of those services are unable to effectively
continues to build out as the new datacenter monitor and quickly respond to performance, utilization,
architecture for many organizations. The internet-of- and cost degradations across their diverse IT resource
things and associated sensors and devices at the edge pools.
is forcing the pendulum to shift back to a decentralized For the full list of the top 10 datacenter predictions for
model of edge datacenters.
the Asia Pacific market read IDC FutureScape:
Worldwide Datacenter 2018 Predictions – APeJ
But as the new datacenter environment builds out, it is
not without its challenges. Government legislation that Implications. ◊
requires for data to remain within national borders and By MediaBUZZ
adhere to strict privacy legislation is a significant issue.

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