What Does The Data Center Of The Future Look Like?

By Zaid Nawaz, Senior Product Support Engineer, Vembu Technologies

As detailed in a recent article on Wikibon, data centers are at the center of modern software technology, serving a critical role in the expanding capabilities for enterprises. Both in terms of physical space and time required to create and maintain critical information, data centers have enabled the enterprise to do much more with much less. For all those who are eager to know about some facts and stats of the largest data centers in the world, here is some informative analysis:

• Google’s data centers use around 260 million watts of power, which accounts to 0.01 percent of global energy. This power is enough to consistently power 200,000 homes.
• Facebook has data worth over 100 PB capacities in its facility, which is derived from a three-tiered storage system. As per the recent press release, Facebook has admitted that its users utilize around 7 PB of photo storage from its facility.
• Amazon has around 450,000 servers in its data centers sited in 7 locations around the world.
• With a count of 1 billion users and 100,000 servers, Microsoft has so far spent around

$23 billion on its data centers.

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