FEATURE : DATA CENTRES
From left to right : Ehab Kanary , VP , Enterprise Infrastructure , EMEA Emerging Markets , CommScope , Peter Adel , Regional Sales Manager , NETSCOUT and Michael Abendanon , Head MEA at NTT Global Data Centres EMEA
From left to right : Michael Langeveld , Head of Technology and Business Development , Emirates and Africa , HPE and Hyther Nizam , President Zoho MEA
“ The industry needs time to address design , cooling efficiency techniques and power
availability ; while at the same time , keep up with demand . Clients and suppliers are part of this change and need to think about ownership and responsibilities for maintenance and how SLAs for high density equipment are set up to optimize efficiencies to achieve net-zero emission goals ,” adds NTT ’ s Abendanon .
Who owns data centres ?
Many cloud vendors , even large global SaaS vendors , do not own their data centres , and run on infrastructure of other vendors . As their operations and their customers scale , so does the cost of the data centres , and the cost is then passed on to the customers .
The second trend that is now emerging is that of data sovereignty .
More and more nations are choosing to enforce laws about keeping data within the geographical boundaries of a country , in strict adherence to the local privacy and security laws .
“ This is a great step towards ensuring that companies , located in a particular country , can ensure that their business data , and the data of their customers , can remain safe ,” adds Zoho ’ s Nizam . p
DATA CENTRES ARE EXPECTED TO
BE HIGHLY ADAPTABLE
AND SCALABLE
TO MEET THE EVER- GROWING
AND EVOLVING DEMANDS
OF AI WORKLOADS .
This is increasingly becoming an issue and making enterprise software inaccessible to many companies .
“ Zoho had long anticipated this issue and invested in building our own infrastructure from ground up and been running its own data centres for over 15 years , on a cutting-edge technology developed in-house that helps increase the processing speed ,” says Zoho ’ s Nizam .
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