Whatâs new for Data Centers? Will they survive the data demand>
Analytics Insight – Preetipadma
Gartner, predicts that by 2025, there will be a 75% jump in the data generation and processing happening at the edge and not at the central data center. Meanwhile, IDC reports that more than half of all data will be generated at the edge of the network by as many as 80 billion Internet of Things devices. The fallout from this trend is that 70% of enterprises will be forced to institute data processing at the edge by 2023. According to PWC, global market for edge data centers is expected to nearly triple to $13.5 billion in 2024 from $4 billion in 2017, thanks to the potential for these smaller, locally located data centers to reduce latency, overcome intermittent connections and store and compute data close to the end user.

Presently, edge computing is leveraged by autonomous driving vehicles, drones, content delivery streaming, video monitoring services, augmented reality and virtual reality gadgets, and some artificial intelligence applications. In a Network World article, Zeus Kerravala explains that Tier 3, N+1 data center can qualify as an edge data center. This is because a Tier-3 data center guarantees 99.982% uptime, which is a must along with redundant power and links, to be considered as part of the internet edge. The article also mentions that close proximity to the peering points and content provide a greater ability to isolate the network from DDoS attacks. Further the PWC report also states that by filtering the data close to the source, low-cost edge centers can help close the potential 64 zettabyte gap between global data center traffic and useable data created.
Link: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/transitioning-from-data-centers-to-edge-data-center-the-next-chapter/