Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-12
Continuing from last week. Let us discuss what will happen when these new open 100G and 400G solutions will hit the market in next 12-18 months.
But before we think of the transformation, let us acknowledge two facts from research by Gartner:-
- 91% of today’s data is created and processed within the data centers
- by 2022, 75% of all the data will need analysis and action at the Edge
And I believe that majority of this data will be in the concentrated portions of our geographies called cities/metros. What does this mean?
- Hyper Scale data centers will not be enough
- Edge Data centers will evolve
- Managing and connecting these edge data centers will be the main concern.
I believe that the Webscale organizations, know about this and may be on the path to solve this, they may implement:
- Distributed data centers
- Small, but connected
- Use Leaf-Spine architecture to connect the edge data centers into a large virtual data center
- Use the new 100G and 400G plugs to extend the Leaf-Spine in the metro/city space
That way they can seamlessly transform from hyper-scale to hyper-distributed-scale. I am keen to see this transformation take place.
I see many new partnerships being announced, AT&T and Microsoft, A&T and IBM, Reliance Jio and Microsoft etc., apart from announcements from operators like CenturyLink. Next week, we will evaluate the role of operators in this transition / transformation.
Stay tuned for more next week.