TOP TEN
DATA CENTRE BRANDS
Welcome to our 2021 list of Data Centre Magazine ’ s top ten brands leading the global data centre industry .
WRITTEN BY : HARRY MENEAR
The global data centre industry is booming . The increased demand for digital infrastructure services brought on by the pandemic , coupled with ongoing innovation and adoption in the Internet of Things , AI , 5G and HPC sectors , is cultivating a groundswell in the data centre market .
Recent data suggest that this year , the global data centre industry will grow by 14 % in 2021 , well ahead of other sectors that are currently feeling the pinch of COVID-19 . In a recent survey , 96 % of data centre professionals saw demand for their services increase last year .
“ The impact of COVID-19 fundamentally accelerated the concept of ‘ mission critical ’. Overnight , businesses became even more reliant on the cloud to enable operations , processes and remote collaboration ,” says ABB Power Conversion president Jeff Schnitzer .
At the same time , the industry is changing , as more and more workloads shift away from enterprise colocation and on-prem data centres towards public and hybrid cloud architectures . 2021 is going to be the year of the hyperscaler , with almost 600 hyperscale facilities online around the world at the end of 2020 , and more than 219 new projects currently underway . datacentremagazine . com 133