Technology Trends Affecting Data Centers in 2020

As data centers get ready to take the leap in 2020, accommodating the new technologies. We, at Prasa, gear up to bring in technologies like liquid immersion cooling and edge computing to make data centers that are sustainable and technologically advanced.

We, at Prasa, believe in one revolutionary solution that will control the carbon footprint of the data centers. It will be a result of all the digital disruptions that will gain widespread adoption in the year 2020. The solution we bring is liquid immersion cooling, which will sustain the rising power requirement in data centers with increasing demands for more storage, higher capacities, and faster processing in the data center.

We are in an era of booming technology. We have started seeing test cases of artificial intelligence, pilot roll-outs of 5G, edge computing deployments, massive upheaval in IoT technology, advanced adoption of augmented and virtual reality, existing technologies like cloud computing and blockchain are also evolving to provide better user experiences in response to the technology-driven world that is beginning to surround us.

As these technologies become mainstream, they will call for bigger, better, and omnipresent data centers in response. We gear up our data centers to accommodate all the digital disruption; it embarks a discussion- what major technological changes will the year 2020 bring?

IoT devices will power digital transformation across all industry verticals

In 2020, adoption of IoT devices will colossally increase with these devices becoming a huge part of our quotidian lives. Industry-wise application of IoT is also going to become massive with multiple uses cases making each industry automated and smarter. The presence of IoT devices across industry verticals will result in higher profits and better productivity.

5G will enable the next-gen technologies

5G is more than just another generation of wireless networks – it will have a much broader scope of supporting billions of connected devices and multiple services. 5G and edge computing will together make zero-latency a reality, which will be the backbone of developments like IoT, AI, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, etc.

2019 has already witnessed the initial roll-outs of 5G, but the mass availability of 5G is yet to come, which is expected to gain massive momentum in 2020.

Blockchain applications will gain mass adoption

Blockchain is set to witness large scale adoption this year. “Multi-chain interconnection” realization will strengthen the concept of the internet of value. In 2020, a large number of blockchain applications will see mass adoption and large scale production-grade blockchain applications will emerge.

Artificial Intelligence will showcase widespread application

Artificial intelligence has already shown its mettle in terms of perpetual intelligence like, speech to text, video understanding, etc. 2020 will see AI progressing further in aspects of cognitive intelligence as well; the areas which require logical reasoning and external knowledge.

This development will allow AI to showcase widespread application in areas with continuous learning to establish effective mechanisms for a wide range of functions. It will help machines understand and use the knowledge on a much higher level.

Edge Computing will be in the lynchpin in all technological developments

All the digital developments we have discussed have two very important aspects – they will require very fast speeds to become mainstream and they will create a huge amount of data. Both of these requirements will be managed by edge computing.

Edge computing will mark a shift in enterprise IT, by moving data processing and storage at the edge. This will not just significantly bring down the latency but also handle and secure the plethora of data we create.

As our reliance on these technologies increases, so does the data they create. We are already living in a world where the ever-increasing data being created has already become the most precious commodity. The increasing data will need higher processing and storage capabilities, which means more data centers with much more power consumption in an already power-hungry planet.

And as promising as the technological advancements look, they will very soon become a huge energy burden, if not dealt with sustainably. We at Prasa believe in one revolutionary solution that will reduce the carbon footprint of all of these technologies as they gain widespread adoption in the year 2020. Liquid Immersion Cooling will sustain the rising power requirement in data centers as all these technologies will demand more storage, higher capacities, and faster processing in the data center.

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