That datacentre security is a complex subject is not in doubt, and given the trend to move beyond centralised datacentres to distributed environments, this is not going to change. How can security professionals ensure such setups are just as secure as the traditional centralised model?
Traditional datacentres have served business well for a long time. But new business models have evolved by capitalising on emerging technology innovations, and the role of the centralised datacentre is now shrinking as workloads are shifted across distributed environments.
The emergence of the decentralised software-defined datacentre, multi-hybrid cloud environment and micro-datacentres has stimulated the rapid proliferation of virtualisation, internet of things (IoT), bring your own device (BYOD) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for adoption, and optimisation for cost, performance and scale.
The demand for distributed architecture will further intensify as the roll-out of 5G networks will generate an increased volume of data and demand for edge computing.
IoT technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled applications have progressively evolved, resulting in an unprecedented need for workloads to operate at the edge. In today’s hyper-connected world, the size and location of datacentres built for the future will matter more and more.
As micro-datacentres become popular, fulfilling the demands of decentralised edge computing provides high bandwidth and intensive content. The ability to address the challenges of last-mile connectivity, reliability, low-latency with redundant paths delivering real time-sensitive applications such as robotics, gaming applications, streaming digital content and autonomous vehicles are best suited and processed in edge datacentres combined with cloud computing.
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