Why Hyperscale Networks Have Been Decades In The Making
The Next Playform, Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
The next generation internet is all about experience. Hyperscalers like Google, Azure and Facebook epitomize the importance of both technological and customer experience. Their ability to automate and rapidly scale technology enables the smooth, latency-free movement of data and workloads, which in turn, underpins the services and applications enterprises and consumers rely on.
As hyperscalers have stretched their way across the globe, customers expect to be able to access resources whether they are in the US, the UK and Europe, or Australia and Indonesia. And naturally other service providers, as well as global enterprises operating their own infrastructure, look to them as an example as they look to deliver a similar experience to their own users and customers.
This is one reason why cloud deployments dominate spending on compute and storage infrastructure. This will hit $24.6bn in the second quarter of 2023, according to IDC, and is shifting to ever more complex workloads, including AI. And AI will lead to a tripling in hyperscale datacenter capacity over the next six years, according to Synergy Research Group.