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Views: 54 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2022-03-22 Origin: Site
In the wake of the impact from the coronavirus outbreak, people have witnessed a shift of data from the core of the network to the edge. While core data is still growing, edge computing is making truth one and truth two even more critical. If data is moved to the edge of the network, it may also be moved to locations near where employees work, perhaps within cities, suburbs and other densely populated areas that are not typically where data centers used to be. There is no doubt that data center space is at a premium, and there are fewer opportunities to reverse engineer these environments or optimize them for power efficiency and/or cooling needs. However, in the spirit of "reduce, reuse, recycle", if ways can be successfully found to reuse existing data center infrastructure without significant modification or construction, this will help significantly reduce the environmental impact of moving to the "edge". environmental impact.
An example of this is how a large U.S. aerospace and defense organization selected Softiron's Ceph storage appliance in a geographically dispersed data center to access data collected and generated at the edge for rapid processing.
The reasons for the rise of hybrid clouds are well known. There has also been an increase in the number of customers who have noticed the trend of moving data out of the public cloud and repatriating it back to the local area. This trend is either due to a desire to have better security control over sensitive data applications by keeping it local, to address latency issues with routinely accessed data to improve performance and accessibility, or a combination of both.
Large public cloud providers like AWS, for example, have begun to focus on these issues and are trying to stem the tide with solutions like Outposts, but does this really solve the data security problem? What are the challenges of still being locked into a proprietary architecture?
These "truths" have been the driving strategies for data center solution providers. They represent the reason why many "mission-specific" designs are so important and built on a foundation of security sources. While this approach can meet other evolving needs of the data center, efficiency and sustainability are undoubtedly at the core of data center design principles.
By designing and building high-performance and ultra-efficient mission-specific equipment from the ground up, it is possible to simultaneously reduce power requirements and reduce cooling needs.
The result is that more storage can be deployed into racks and still be within the available power and cooling budget. This frees up more space in the data center, making them more efficient and allowing for edge deployment in previously operational environments without additional modifications.
By designing and building from the ground up, rather than using generic equipment sourced globally as other vendors do, it will provide a transparent, auditable platform and build a truly secure and sustainable data center environment.
Finally, by adopting industry-leading open source platforms, but applying them to mission-specific hardware, this removes both the complexity of using these platforms in an organization and the lock-in of cloud computing providers.