Latin America. " Micro data centers are contained and secure computing environments that include all the storage, network connectivity and processing that is required to run the applications deployed inside," says Saida Ortiz, ITB Director Schneider Electric Andean Zone.
"This means that they not only become a solution for the traffic of large volumes of information in mobile environments, but also for the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet of Things, where it will become a solution to make processes in production plants more reliable, efficient and economical."
A micro data center actually includes everything necessary for its operation, such as the provision of energy, cooling, security and the systems necessary for its management, which can be based on DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management).
"Another important element of data centers is that they are assembled and tested in Schneider Electric's production plants and can cover a range of between 1 and 1,000KW of load for IT," Ortiz said.
With them in action, two important trends can be deployed for our time and particularly for the future, such as Edge Computing and Fog Computing, daughters of cloud computing but with specific tasks.
Edge computing is defined as computing that can be performed at the edge of the network, which allows latency to be reduced and the responsiveness of all the elements involved in the process to be expanded.
For its part, the concept of Fog Computing, takes advantage of servers and data centers close to the user and that are designed for Edge Computing in order to respond to information needs.
These elements can reduce information latency times and improve the responsiveness of devices, vehicles, appliances, so that they do their tasks safely and consistently and to deploy them, a network of micro data centers is required.
"Digital traffic expands year-over-year by 23%, led in part by the rise of the Internet of Things, IoT and micro data centers can reduce latency, increase physical security and allow IT solutions to be deployed closer to applications that are data-intensive," said Saida Ortiz.
Similarly, micro data centers can easily scale and add a new one to meet a growing demand, for example, by shortening the time for infrastructure deployment, simplifying total infrastructure management, and lower capital and maintenance costs.
Thus, micro data centers open new production and innovation alternatives for all types of companies.
