Summary Insights: Unleash the Power of OpEx To Transform Data Centers and Kill CapEx
RFG Perspective: The two main drivers of data center transformation today are AI (primarily generative AI) and sustainability. Both shifts will have substantial effects on hardware acquisition strategy and data center design including requiring evolutionary operational metrics and added funding. GenAI capabilities will add huge costs across the categories of compute, storage, network, and power, necessitating IT executives understand and appropriately allocate limited resources to achieve business objectives.
Summary Insights: Unleash the Power of OpEx To Transform Data Centers
Predictions for 2024
RFG Perspective: 2024 will be a year of uncertainty – domestically, economically, financially, geopolitically, and technically. While it appears inflation is abating, prices and interest rates will remain higher than they have been over the past decade and the potential for no-growth or business contraction remains a possibility. The war in Ukraine,the Israeli-Gaza war, and the concerns for a China-Taiwan war or siege will continue to impact business (and government) growth, plans, and supplies. Additionally, we remain in the age of scarcity, which will continue to affect data center systems and components supplies at varying levels. If the Israeli-Gaza war expands to a broader Middle East war or the China-Taiwan clash heats up, supply chains could worsen significantly, which could impair AI and other transformation initiatives.
Predictions for 2024
10 Sustainability Advantages of IBM LinuxONE
Executive Summary: The age of abundance is over having been replaced by the age of scarcity. Corporations, and especially IT and facilities executives, need to address the near-and long-term challenges posed by power and water costs and shortages, supply chain constraints, and sustainability obligations and objectives. All this must be tackled while concurrently meeting business needs for growth in compute and storage capacity.
10 Sustainability Advantages of IBM LinuxONE