Data center IT infrastructure investment, covering
everything from server closets to large data centers, in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa (EMEA) to grow from $29 billion in 2010 to $40 billion by 2015.
Private and public cloud development is expected to fuel
data center transformation and consolidation, driving the market’s 6 percent
compound annual growth rate. While servers are projected to remain the largest
market component, Canalys forecasts virtualization and storage will grow more
quickly, according to Canalys.
On a worldwide basis, Canalys anticipates data center IT
infrastructure end-user revenue to grow by an average of 7 percent each year,
to reach $149 billion by 2015, up from $107 billion last year. EMEA is expected
to account for 27 percent of the global value, with other regions – notably
Asia Pacific – poised to expand at faster rates.
Data center transformation has emerged as a key IT topic
in recent years, with a focus on establishing more centralized, pooled
computing, storage and network resources to facilitate cloud computing,” said
Matthew Ball, director of Enterprise Services at Canalys.
Data centers will need to improve service levels to customers,
whether internal or to third parties, by accommodating growing data and network
bandwidth demands and merging complex architectures that were once technology
silos – all while achieving a low carbon footprint and occupying minimal floor
space,” Ball added.
Canalys anticipates that the shift to public and private
cloud computing will stimulate consolidation of multiple server closets, server
rooms and small data centers to privately owned or third-party-operated large
data centers.
Services, including professional and managed services,
will be essential for data center transformation and the adoption of private
and public cloud computing. As IT budgets become less constrained, especially
in the public sector in the medium term, data center transformation will grow,
creating demand for core IT infrastructure components. The challenge, however,
is getting the right scale of compute, storage and network resources to meet
current and future demand without too much or too little capacity.
By TelecomLead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
