“Hyperscale course”: nearly 400 hyperscale data centers in the world

    In April 2017, there were 320 hyper-scalable data centers in the world , and in December their number was 390. Synergy expects the number of hyperscale data centers to increase to 400 in the first quarter of 2018 and reach 500 in 2019.

    In today's article, we’ll talk about what is the reason for the global increase in the number of hyper-scalable data centers, who uses them and why, how much it costs and what alternative solutions are available. / photo Carsten CC




    Where are hyper-scalable data centers installed?


    According to a Synergy study, most hyper-scalable data centers are located in the United States (44%), China accounts for 8%, and Japan and the UK 6% each. 5% of data centers are located in Australia and Germany, and 3% of the total number of such data centers are located in Singapore, Canada, Brazil and India.

    The Synergy study is based on data center data from 24 companies that are considered leaders among cloud and Internet providers, machine rooms of which number hundreds of thousands or millions of servers.

    On average, each of the 24 companies has 16 hyper-scalable data centers. The leaders in their number are Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google. The data centers of these giants are located in 45 countries in different regions. They include: North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the countries of the Pacific.

    As noted in the Cisco, the number of data centers gipermasshtabiruemyh fastest growing in the Asia-Pacific region, but in spite of that in 2020 half of the data center of this scale will continue to reside in the United States.

    How much do you spend on classic and hyperscale infrastructures?


    According to Deloitte and Gartner, in 2016, global spending on traditional infrastructure amounted to $ 1,045 billion. However, this figure is decreasing : according to forecasts, in 2018 it will fall to $ 1,005 billion.

    At the same time, the demand for the services of cloud providers will increase, and the cost of cloud solutions from 2016 to 2018 will increase from 361 to 547 billion dollars. For example, in March last year, Google announced that their spending on expanding their data center network over the past three years amounted to $ 30 billion. And Microsoft and Amazon are investing $ 10 billion each in data center infrastructure each year.

    Global spending on public hyperscale cloud infrastructure has grown35% between 2015 and 2017. And the September report from 451 Research predicts that by 2019, the percentage of workloads in the public cloud will increase from 45 to 60. According to IDC, the cost of public clouds will increase from 128 (in 2017) to $ 266 billion by 2021.

    Opposite Trend: Micro Data Center


    Hyper-scalable data centers are mainly used for the development and training of artificial intelligence, working with IoT and in other areas where you need to process a large amount of data.

    However, according to Linley Group chief analyst Linley Gwenapp, not all companies will benefit from deploying hyper-scalable data centers, since working with them requires large investments in infrastructure development. Therefore, in recent years, such a solution as a micro data center is gaining popularity.

    Nick Claxson of Comtec Enterprises notesthat the traditional data center lacks the flexibility to solve the problems facing the educational or financial sectors, where data processing occurs on the periphery. To solve this problem, you can use small decentralized IT-stations, as they are able to provide the necessary flexibility and performance.

    MicroCOD, or modular data centers, are a set of blocks necessary for assembling a DIY data center. The design and deployment of micro-data centers depends on the wishes of the client: he can choose the required number of racks and create a completely ready data center for a month (we already wrote more about modular data centers here) Such a data center is advantageous for three reasons: the equipment does not take up much space, the data center does not require special personnel to deploy capacities and consumes less electricity than a traditional data center.

    The technology is already finding applications in the IoT, the retail industry (for example, to keep track of customers in the stores through Wi-Fi), video streaming, or banking. According to Research and Markets, the micro data center market will grow from $ 2 billion in 2017 to $ 8 billion by 2022. At the same time, the average annual growth rate will be 26%.



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