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More power fewer humans
By Steve Kyprianou , managing director , TSI Voice & Data
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The data centre of tomorrow will be shaped by a number of factors that will create complex challenges
Moore ’ s Law , termed by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore a little over 50 years ago , stated technology would rise exponentially , with transistors doubling in quantity every two years . So what ’ s the progress so far , and what this does this mean for the data centres in the future ?
Moore ’ s predictions have become the golden rule by which processing has increased and , in fact , modern statistics suggest this rise sees more of an 18-month cycle . Today , there ’ s more processing power in a single handheld device than that which NASA had at its disposal during the moon landings . So , as this increase continues , where does that leave our data centres in the future ?
There are many considerations , not least the structure of the data centre but also the purpose of our data usage . In addition , we ’ ll need to consider flexibility , cost , speed – and coping with it . Then there are the regulations around energy , cross-nation applications , the technology itself and of course disaster recovery .
It appears to be a minefield , but is it one that we ’ ll adapt to in the same way our foreseers were predicting 50 years ago ? One fear is that processing power will outstrip the capabilities of the human brain – but I ’ m happy to leave
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