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Datacenter migration, as the world becomes more centered on digital, and relies on data processing and analysis, make IT in today's business environment is facing a series of unique challenges and opportunities for development.

This article, from the spring 2018 edition of 7x24 Exchange international, was written by Matt Stansberry, vice President of North America at the Uptime Institute, a data-center facility consultancy. 
Stansberry in the article, puts forward the data center owners and operators will need the following five key problems in their firms' data center strategy in 2018, while the five key issues include:
• how climate change will increasingly influence the design, location and technology decisions of enterprise data centers.
• the impact of the new data center building management system and its risks to the network security of data centers.
• flexible decision making related to edge computing -- data center design for highly reliable, micro-modular deployments.
• staffing issues in data centers -- employee needs are changing, and are recruitment and training plans for your corporate data centers unchanged?
• the growing importance of using DCIM and other better tools to deploy and manage data center resources. 
As the world becomes more centered on digital, and relies on data processing and analysis, make IT in today's business environment is facing a series of unique challenges and opportunities for development.The data center industry has been affected by a variety of potential emerging trends and external factors, all of which are serious questions that every IT organization needs to face and answer. 
In 2018, these include:
1. Is your organization ready to deal with the impacts of climate change? 
Climate change is not a difficult problem for our grandchildren in the distant future.It's in front of us now. 
In 2018, according to our data center industry survey data show that about 50% of the enterprise organization is positive to solve this problem, while the other 50% of enterprise organization think they sure won't be affected by the problem, or simply bury my head in the sand like an ostrich. 
Business organizations around the world need to plan ahead for the catastrophic increase in daytime weather.Climate warming will increase the severity and frequency of devastating weather events such as heat waves, floods, droughts and hurricanes. 
In fact, increased rainfall due to rising sea levels and heavy rainfall has made it possible for more areas to be affected by flooding than just plain areas. 
As natural disasters become more common across the globe, the flexibility of planning a business becomes more complex.As a result, disaster and emergency plans can no longer be isolated from equipment testing and emergency procedures exercises, but must be carried out within your company's broader emergency and business continuity plans.Once you encounter a long period of flooding, whether your enterprise data center site can survive. 
How will your data center respond to extended downtime?In addition, climate change will push companies to think more about the location and technology of data center buildings.Past schemes to estimate energy efficiency or use free natural cooling times may no longer be accurate, changing the ROI of some device decisions.Changes in precipitation will lead to drought and water shortages in some areas, or make the original evaporative cooling options unsustainable. 
Finally, as the climate impacts become more severe, we expect to see more stringent regulatory scrutiny of carbon emissions from data centres. 
2. Is the infrastructure of your enterprise data center secure? 
In the current data center industry, control systems for managing heavy data center infrastructure devices are increasingly becoming ip-based. 
While most companies are usually through private network connection to the infrastructure of the control system, these systems can be achieved by BMS (building management system) and suppliers to support the function of the access to the outside world.In addition, a growing number of vendors are seeking to implement data center management as a service (DCmaas) -- software that provides fine-tuning analysis and forecasting capabilities for tracking performance and maintenance issues.But as traffic grows, so does the risk.Cyber hackers can shut down data centers and damage equipment by controlling the system.In fact, researchers have recently shown that a generator can be destroyed by digital control commands. 
So enterprise need to evaluate their systems and procedures, as data center management operations researchers consider allowing access to infrastructure equipment, in order to deploy DCmaas, and predictive maintenance data and access to the supplier's support. 
Once relevant policies have been formulated, organizations should use external security expertise for thorough review. 
3. Will your company's data overflow from the edge on a large scale? 
About 40 percent of respondents to our 2018 data center industry survey said new workload demands were pushing data processing to the edge this year.Edge computing drives computing and analytics closer to data usage and collection points.This architecture reduces the need to route data to a centralized analysis platform, thereby reducing network traffic and performance problems.This becomes important for high-capacity and low-latency workloads, from smart cities and self-driving cars to automation.A typical marginal computing deployment scenario would be a high reliability, low latency, high security, and non-latency remote computing asset.These requirements can be met through micro-modular data centers, or through sites such as pop, point-of-presence sites such as cell phone towers and network operators. 
But unlike many state-of-the-art workload and small deployment, when so much new work load has the human safety, do not allow error, stop, or the condition of poor performance. 
Take the time to ensure that your enterprise's edge computing site maintains the same level of reliability and performance as we would expect from a large traditional data center. 
4. Is there a suitable staff in your particular data center operating environment? 
Companies are already feeling the pinch. 
Many companies are slashing their IT infrastructure budgets, and some teams are facing layoffs because salaries may be one of the biggest budget spending items in the corporate IT department.Similarly, at many companies, a significant number of skilled workers are leaving their jobs first because of concerns about the "cloud first" strategy.Moreover, the best employees in most organizations are likely to be poached by fast-growing oversize and managed service providers. 
Although many organizations are trying to use much less people than before to maintain the aging infrastructure, but when the enterprise need across the enterprise internal and hosting or cloud deployment, many of the new skill sets talents are still in short supply. 
New on-demand skills include expertise in contract and supplier management;Knowledge of configuration, load balancing, and network connectivity in the cloud, as well as risk and financial analysis for executing hybrid IT.For many organizations, the current solution seems to require them to hire more "generalists" -- multi-skilled people who can handle tasks and projects.Enterprise organizations will need to invest more in training and cross-training staff to meet the diverse needs of the business and provide incentives and experience training to staff on demand. 
5. Is it time to replan the DCIM strategy of your enterprise data center? 
If your business is facing the same set of problems we just listed above -- the basement of your corporate data center has been flooded twice in five years.You just inherited a bunch of new remote mission-critical micro-sites from the edge projects of your enterprise's Devops team;Microsoft has poached three of the best technicians in your business.Perhaps it's time for your organization to consider getting some help with some software solutions?Today's data center IT infrastructure leaders need to deploy tools for better control and visibility. 
We know that the experience of failed deployments of some software solutions in the past, and the poor return on investment, have indeed brought you a bad experience.But if you can overcome the pain you've experienced over the years, you'll find that these software products are maturing. 
According to data center infrastructure management (DCIm) software specialists such as Rhonda Ascierto of market research firm 451 research, these product lines have matured significantly.If your enterprise data center experiences a project failure today, it is less likely to be due to a defect in a software product, and more likely to be due to a lack of preparation. 
Implement the DCIM is not a simple project - which is why half of the procurement DCIM solution enterprise have not received them the cause of the expected return on investment, the company sales DCIM before today half gone.Today's corporate clients have become smarter.They have learned that the key to moving forward on a difficult path is to identify specific project goals and business benefits and targets for successful deployment of DCIM solutions. 
In an age of emerging technologies and changing business needs, it is important to ask the right questions.Are you ready for these challenges?We suggest you to bring these issues to your company the next leadership meeting widely discussed, and fully aware that any of these leadership if the lack of adequate response to these questions, so that in itself would be a great discovery!