IT Trends Come and Go. Focus Your Infrastructure Strategy on Reliability, Scalability, and Flexibility
Many of us spent some time over the holidays preparing for 2025. As an IT professional you may have spent some time reading forecasts of the IT trends that are coming in 2025. If you want to catch up on what various technology journalists and futurists are predicting for the next 12 months here, here, here, here, here, and here are just a few places to look.
We’ll play along, sharing our predictions, which have been informed by conversations with dozens of smart customers, prospects, CIOs, CTOs, and other subject matter experts.
2025 is likely to see:
#1 Continued Growth of AI: AI can be a remarkable tool and organizations that grab first mover advantage will have big edges in their markets. There will also be plenty of AI initiatives that fail, but fortunately AI tools can be explored at a relatively modest cost. AI experiments that work out make organizations more efficient, with the ability to service their customer base more effectively.
#2 A Key Year for Edge Computing: It seems like we’ve been told edge computing is going to finally take off for a decade now. While some edge growth has taken place the predictions of larger edge adoption with nodes and a mini-data center on every corner have largely gone unfulfilled. In 2025, AI could finally be the impetus for expansion of edge computing. AI system requirements for low latency and massive data storage and analysis will give an advantage to companies that position their IT resources closer to the end user.
#3 Repatriation of Cloud Apps: Many apps hosted with public cloud providers will be pulled back into traditional data center infrastructure. The cost-effectiveness of the public cloud has largely been an empty promise for many organizations, particularly those without the size and budget to be able to negotiate effectively with large public cloud providers. While large-scale users will continue to drive overall cloud growth, many organizations, particularly mid-size enterprises and small businesses, will continue to pull applications back from expensive cloud providers and into cost-controlled traditional data center infrastructure.
#4 More Companies Choosing Hybrid Colocation: Companies that are faced with aging on-premise datacenters will increasingly choose hybrid colocation over comprehensive public cloud IT strategies. With hybrid colocation, business critical applications that require the highest degree of resiliency, performance, and security are maintained in a state-of-the-art colocation facility, while “back end” applications such as financials and resource management move to the cloud. This keeps your most critical resources under direct control while taking advantage of public cloud’s economies of scale for the types of applications that don’t give your company a business edge. No other solution provides more flexibility and customization than hybrid colocation.
A fiber-rich, cloud-adjacent colocation environment offers flexibility and scalability that best positions you to react wisely to future events such as:
evolving requirements
new technologies
budget change
cloud cost overruns
applications working poorly in cloud environments
M&A activity
compliance and regulatory changes
joint ventures and partnerships
With hybrid colocation you can move into the public cloud or pull back from it on an application-to-application basis. You can choose the telecom and cloud providers that best fit your needs while having the option to keep your applications that work just fine in traditional data center infrastructure in a cost-controlled environment.
The Direct LTx data center in Reading offers Mid-Atlantic enterprises all this flexibility 51 miles west of Center City Philadelphia. For more information, a tour, or a discussion (ask us about our uptime record) email strategy@directltx.com.