This article has been provided by Peter O’Brien, co-founder of Ventry Technologies.
From the outside, data centres often look like little more than anonymous sheds on industrial estates.
But step inside, and you’ll find the beating heart of our digital world. These vast, humming facilities are where the real work of AI, machine learning, IoT and 5G happens. And as these technologies advance, they’re creating not just more data, but a new type of demand for how that data is handled.
We’re not just in an age of digital transformation. We’re in an age of digital acceleration. And that shift is placing extraordinary pressure on the data infrastructure that underpins it all.
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