If you have been on cloud services for a time now, you may not have heard about micro data centers (MDCs) or if you have, you may have been confused as to why it has become popular. After all, data deployment consolidation aims to reduce data center footprints, simplifying data center management, and cutting down costs has been the step in the right action for a decade now. But more and more organizations looking for IT solutions in California have adopted MDCs for their data storage and data processing needs. It is estimated that this year alone, the global market for micro data centers is at $6.3 billion.

As your trusted provider of IT service in Montebello, California, let us at Amucomp Solutions walk you through the resurgence of this trend and examine why it is becoming popular at this time.

Firstly, what are Micro Data Centers or MDCs?

Micro Data Centers are data centers that are on a smaller scale and are modular by design, making it easy to replace components should there be failures. They range from a single 19-inch rack to a 40-foot shipping container that makes them deployable where traditional data centers may have been impossible to deploy. Along with an IT support network, it has all the requirements you would need to accomplish a workload including:

• High-performance servers
• Networking equipment
• Server racks/enclosures with n-rack/in-container cooling
• Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
• Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPSes)
• Physical security measures and fire suppression technology
• Environmental monitoring

Underlying all its benefits to businesses is the capacity to enable organizations to reduce their data center footprints as well as bring data processing closer to end-users. Specifically, this means:

• Low latency is the ability to process data, usually one that has a very high volume, with minimal delay. Since MDCs can be brought closer to where clients are geographically located, lower latency can be expected.
• Faster and less costly to deploy since they are prefabricated, smaller than traditional data centers—about the size of a refrigerator—and are modulated which means they can be fitted with replacement components in case of failures or malfunctions.
• Lower maintenance costs since MDCs have a standardized and repeatable design compared to traditional data centers which tend to be hybrids of old and new hardware.

However, these benefits are only part of what is making MDCs popular, the true factors driving behind its popularity are:

• The advent of the edge computing phenomenon propelled by the Internet of Things revolution.
• The need to reduce latency for processing and storing massive volumes of data.
• The need to cut the costs of data transmission to be able to extend business’ services to remote areas.
• Cloud limitations.
• Cybersecurity issues in cloud.