As data center management looks up, what's on the horizon? 2019 and beyond in DCs - Tech Wire Asia

With a couple of notable exceptions (like big data processing using artificial intelligence algorithms), increases in computing power and improvements in storage technology have not necessarily meant that humans could work any faster or harder. But instead that technology is now able to shorten time-to-value for new apps and services, and managing that provision's infrastructure has got easier. In data centers, software-defined structures like convergence, hyperconvergence, and service abstractions are becoming more prevalent and mainstream. Perhaps the earliest example of software abstraction was the virtual server. Virtual machines now predominate in local, remote cloud and edge data centers/microcenters, and their presence has led to an uptick in utilization metrics.