Research Overview

As digital transformation is changing business models, organizations need to leverage real-time intelligence to create and deliver value. Further, next-generation workloads and applications are dependent on extensive near-real-time computation. The large volume of data generated needs to be effectively processed and stored to maximize value.

This fundamental change in being able to acquire, analyze, and leverage real-time data, augmented with Mega Trends, such as IoT adoption, 5G roll-outs, data sovereignty implementation as well as the adoption of online and video content, are forcing organizations to revisit the IT architecture. The emerging IT architecture is characterized by a relatively more decentralized infrastructure environment involving the deployment of computing and storage resources closer to the source of data origin or user.

Organizations are rapidly leveraging edge data centers and edge computing architectures to shift workloads closer to the data source or point of consumption. These edge data centers are relatively smaller facilities and may be deployed closer to point of data generation source, non-metro or hyper-scale markets, or to connect regions in a hub-and-spoke model.