REACHING MATURITY
CLOUD
“ HPC Infrastructure is expensive , complex to setup and maintain ; right-sizing that environment is a difficult process ”
— Keith Stafford , Head of cloud architecture , Continent 8 Technologies
32 are starting to offer more solutions tailored to the HPC industry ’ s needs , like “ investment in specialised hardware and solutions , which can be consumed in multiple options such as spot instances , reserved instances and hosts to better control costs .”
REACHING MATURITY
The pressures of the past year have thrown unprecedented challenges at consumers , enterprises alike . As data centre operators continue to respond and adapt to increased demand for data and cloud services in response to industry trends and the continuing pandemic , Johnson believes that the sector is reaching a new era of maturity . “ As a result of our ever-increasing thirst for data , 2020 has seen a real maturing of the data centre landscape . It has grown from an ‘ IT support system ’ to an on-demand scalable service , a truly mission critical industry that enables economies to keep working and families to stay connected ,” he says , noting that , while this is creating new opportunities for data centre and cloud platform operators , these exciting new developments will also generate their share of
FEBRUARY 2021