Latin America. The challenges presented by the growing demand for bandwidth pose a High Speed Migration strategy.
With internal Data Center traffic expected to grow up to threefold over the next five years, and the increasing penetration of the Internet of Things (IoT), data center bandwidth risks being overloaded in the near future1. Similarly, it is expected that by 2020 the presence of IoT devices will reach 30 trillion dollars2, which reinforces the fact that the technology is based on itself, so its growth will almost always be exponential, representing greater challenges for administrators and operators.
"It must be said, Data Center administrators need to adapt to rather complicated challenges: applications that demand higher speeds and ultra-low latency performance; increasing the densities that leaf and spine networks can support," says Ehab Kanary, Director of the Middle East and Africa Enterprise Department at CommScope. "At the same time, they must find a way to improve network availability while reducing costs across the dashboard, so migrating to higher speeds is an inevitable necessity."
For many data center managers, the answer lies in migrating their infrastructure, either with a rapid end-to-end restructuring strategy, or with a slow one that adapts over time to support the new requirements of speed, latency and port density. However, this is not necessary, nor does it apply in the same way for all Data Centers.
"On the one hand, one cannot ignore the fact that current and future trends in data use are alarmingly high and are not expected to stabilize in the future; that is why High Speed Migration is not about a "if" but about "when". On the other hand, all data centers have a very unique set of business requirements, stakeholder expectations, and technical considerations," explains Ehab Kanary.
