Data Center 2025 An Industrywide Look at the Future of Data Center Ecosystems Lynette Gordon

Respondents Emerson conducted a four-month long industry-wide, global study into the future of the data centre and solicited viewpoints Customers Media analysts Industry partners Other Latin America Western Europe Asia Pacific United States DC Mgmt Exec. Mgmt DC Operations Project Mgmt Engr. & Tech IT Dev. & Admin Other

Demographics Years of experience working with data centres Primary Industry of Respondents 51%

Three Visions of Data Center 2025 o Lower energy efficiency than today o Data centres will be larger o Increased use of renewable energy, but not by much 36%40%22% ConservativeModerateProgressive o Improved energy efficiency o Data centres will be 50%-80% smaller o Obtain 1/5th of power from solar energy o Much greater efficiency o Data centre will be much smaller- a 10 th of current size o 30% of power from renewables

The 2025 Data Center …

…will consume lower energy % of Respondents Data centre infrastructure will be more efficient IT infrastructure will be more efficient Other Improvements 84% 67% 8% Over 35% of respondents believe that we will not be more efficient

…will be smaller in size % of Respondents Over 55% of Population believes that data centres will shrink in size

...will be Powered by Alternative Fuels % of Respondents 33% 31% 36% Much Lower Lower Same or Higher Future Data Centre Energy Consumption will be

... will be Self Healing & highly Utilized 30% 31% 28% 9% 80-99% 60-79% 100% <60% Same as today Self-Optimizing, Self- Healing and Unmanned Self-Optimizing Comprehensive Visibility across all systems and layers 43% 25% 29% 3% Only 40% think that Capacity Utilization will be above 80% % of Respondents

...will have much higher power density Expectations of much bigger shift in rack power density. Rack density has averaged below 10kW/rack for past 7 years* * Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users’ Group TM

...will use more efficient back up power High-efficiency UPS Momentary Duty Inverter Software Failover DC UPS Other % of Respondents

...will use novel thermal management % of Respondents Air + Liquid Ambient Air Cold Air Liquid Immersive

...will have higher availability expectations % of Respondents

…will need to cope with high skill retirements No - Career Change Yes, I will be in the industry in 2025 No - I'll be retired No - Due to changes in the data centre industry No - Other Reason

…used as the outsourced cloud % of computing in the cloud (outsourced) in 2025 % of Respondents

Datacentre Customer Drivers & Needs Technology & Market Drivers Datacentre Owner/ Operator Pressures Budget Management Missed SLAs, Downtime Costs, Loss of Trust Increasing Number of Business Critical Apps Rapid Growth Of Data Mobile Computing Server Virtualization Public & Private Clouds Inability To Plan; Long Lead Time For New Capacity Business Factors Compliance & Data Security Security Threats Lack Of Visibility Capacity Management Uptime & Availability Low Productivity & Loss Of Flexibility Core Problems That Need Solutions Increasing Operational Costs Importance

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