(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT research group Tier1 Research (www.t1r.com) announced on Tuesday it has released a new data center report that focuses on the advancement of emerging data center technologies and the impending impact on the entire data center value chain.
Entitled “Datacenter Design: The Business of Technology”, the report looks at new and innovative technologies that help increase data center efficiency and reliability, increase energy efficiency, promote adoption of data center standardization to reduce time to market and decrease long-term maintenance and costs.
The report gives insight into which data center technologies will have the greatest chance of being adopted versus those technologies that will likely have slower adoption rates or no adoption at all within the next few years.
A range of data center design technologies are discussed in the report including modularization and containers, powered base buildings, economizers, heat reclamation/cogeneration, absorption chillers, thermal storage, and power monitoring and data center controls.
“The ‘Datacenter Design: The Business of Technology’ report spotlights advances in data center construction, the motivators behind them, what will prevail and what is fleeting,” says Jason Schafer, senior data center analyst and authoring analyst. “The trends and motivators behind data center designs, the innovations being made, the technologies that are being adopted in the industry, and the impending impacts of carbon legislation and cap and trade are all critical components that will have a huge effect on the industry as a whole. Given this, the implementation of a sound growth strategy is necessary for all industry players to remain relevant, support growth and avoid technological obsolescence.”
With energy use and carbon contribution of data centers being among the main concerns within the industry today, as well as the Obama administration’s recently proposed carbon emissions legislation, there has been mounting pressure on the data center sector to reduce its energy use and carbon emissions.
The report covers key public and private companies in the Internet data center sector, including 365 Main, Schneider Electric, Avocent, CoreSite, Digital Realty Trust, DuPont Fabros, Eaton, Emerson Network Power, IBM, NTT America, Quality Technology Services, Raritan, Stream Realty, Telehouse Europe, Turbine Air Systems and Validus DC Systems.
