This AI Makes Sure Your Data Center Is Always Up And Running

Data is eating the world and data centers rapidly expand to contain the more than 65 trillion gigabytes of data created and replicated worldwide. IDC predicts a 23% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of data from 2020 to 2025, driving new applications and uses for AI or machine learning that is based on analysis of lots and lots of data. Such new AI applications are now reaching all corners of the corporate world, including the companies providing the tools, technologies, and infrastructure that are required for managing the data housed in large data centers. Google, for example, has used machine learning to find new ways to save energy in its data centers around the world, achieving in eighteen months a 40% reduction in energy used for cooling and 15% reduction in overall energy overhead. CDS, provider of multi-vendor services for data centers worldwide, today announced Nebula, a machine learning program that provides predictive intelligence on parts availability and delivery and other services for enhancing operations, sales, and service delivery.