IDC Asia Pacific publishes the following key forecasts for data center trends that will have a significant impact on organizations in the Asia Pacific region in 2017 and beyond. 1: Data center prospects. By 2018, 35% of data-intensive industries will adopt formal data center planning, procurement, and governance processes to accelerate the digital transformation process. 2: Next generation workload. By 2019, 25% of the organization's investment in data centers will be used to support next-generation situational workloads such as cognitive/artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented reality. 3: Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) usage mode. By 2018, the pay-as-you-go model will account for 25% of local and externally deployed physical IT and data center asset expenditures, thereby strengthening business and IT collaboration. 4: Smart Data Center. In 2017, only 20% of enterprises will deploy software-defined data centers as scheduled, as capacity constraints in critical facilities will delay the transition process. 5: Cloudy operation. As companies respond to changing data usage patterns, 45% of corporate ICT spending in 2018 will be used for colocation, hosted cloud and public cloud data centers. 6: Local cloud delivery. By 2019, 20% of the local deployment infrastructure will support the next generation of geo-related workloads that will connect directly to the public/hosted cloud through the IaaS/PaaS stack on the integrated device. 7: Rack-level IT. Within three years, rack-level hyper-convergence and ultra-large-scale bundled sales will account for 30% of server/storage/network deployments, driving changes in power and cooling design. 8: Dynamic connectivity. In 2017, 25% of enterprises will use a policy-based overlay network (the overlay network refers to a network built on another network, an application-oriented application layer network) that moves quickly and securely between data centers, clouds, and branches. Data and workload. 9: Power guarantee. By 2019, major data center operators will reduce their reliance on the grid, and 10% of data center energy demand will be met through dedicated private power generation. 10: Degradation of the data center. The mismatch between power output and IT workload caused by hardware obsolescence will cause 30% of medium and large enterprises to experience service failures. Cynthia Ho, senior analyst at IDC Asia Pacific Data Center, said: "With the advancement of digital transformation, the underlying cloud and data center infrastructure of various organizations must mature at the same speed. Otherwise, the business and IT departments will not be able to coordinate. This will create conflicts between the two. And the greater the gap in maturity, the more prominent the contradiction between the two sides. In addition to the development of the shackled business, it will lead to a surge in shadow IT." IDC predicts that the hybrid data center environment will continue to proliferate and become the new normal in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan). This is also reflected in Forecast 5 – by 2018, 45% of corporate ICT spending will be spent on a mixed environment related to external deployment. As hybrid clouds expand to the edge of the network of mobile devices and sensors, IDC expects this environment to become more fragmented and complex. Shenzhen Linx Technology Co., Ltd. , https://www.linxheadphone.com