Data centers face a huge increase in compute demand while looking at a precipitous drop in trained IT personnel. Add to those factors executive demand for changes in how data centers are powered, and the stage is set for shifts that could leave server farms, central storage, and enterprise network stacks open to cyberattacks.
These are some of the points raised in a new report looking at the data center in 2025. The report, sponsored by Vertiv, is an update to a report first issued in 2014. In the original report, the data center brain drain was highlighted, with only 56% of survey participants expected to still be in the industry by 2025, and with retirement as the main reason for employees leaving.
But as the new report shows, the problem is much bigger. While the skills shortage in cybersecurity has been well-documented, it's also an overall problem in IT. These shortages in trained IT professionals are looming as the industry sees a change in the way that data centers are structured - a change that may be as large as the shift to cloud computing. Enterprise computing, the new 2019 report says, is heading to the edge.
"Edge computing" in this context is computing that has been pushed closer to users and devices rather than delivering all compute services from central locations. Among organizations who have edge sites today or expect to have edge sites in 2025, more than half (53%) expect the number of edge sites they support to grow by at least 100% between now and then, with 20% expecting a 400% or m ..
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