Data center uptime pressure mounts as IoT takes hold

Data center uptime pressure mounts as IoT takes hold
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zThe increased presence of screens will also tax data centers. For example, convenience stores pilot technology that uses screens next to cash registers, with facial and clothes recognition -- determining if it is one of five classes of people the business identifies as customers -- and serves up a customized ad.
"By the early [20]20s, there will be screens everywhere," Rogers said.
The government will also fuel further demands for perfect data center uptime, as it increasingly sees high-speed Internet as important as the federal highway systems and rural electrification in past generations.
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"For kids, to lose Internet connection will be more serious than losing power," Rogers said, adding that many items will be battery powered.
The increasing prevalence of Internet of Things applications -- including the growing "smart home" market and the predictive analytics that come along with it -- will put increased demands on the data center.
"These things will be part of the data center of the future," Rogers said.
What is the greatest threat to data centers in the future that may be overlooked today? Electromagnetic pulses. "Nobody really understands what electromagnetic pulses at very high levels will do," he said.
As a weapon, the possibility of electromagnetic pulses being used against a data center is a "very small probability," and more realistically, security continues to pose a top risk to uptime, he said.
The demands on the data center will also come from other changes in the workforce, including a shift from traditional, manpower-intensive work to more automation at all levels, including white-collar jobs. For example, e-discovery software allows lawyers to search evidence in legal cases to find those relevant to their trials -- something that used to be done by legions of legal staff pouring through boxes of papers for weeks.
"That kind of intelligence is going to be part of every business and that will be brought to bear on the functioning of a data center," Rogers said.
That same highly automated work could influence the IT workforce itself. But Rogers said IT pros in the data center shouldn't worry about their job going away anytime soon, noting the large number of things they may have on a to-do list.
"As we automate some of the basic tasks in the data center, you will have time to do those [other] things," he said.
Robert Gates covers data centers, data center strategies, server technologies, converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, and open source operating systems for SearchDataCenter. Follow him on Twitter @RBGatesTT or email him at rgates@techtarget.com.