To support the growth of data-intensive and ultra-low latency applications, local edge data centers must be scaled out in a wide range of environments. Deploying these data centers at scale presents unique challenges for power and cooling, energy efficiency, management, and maintenance. Data center owners and operators must elevate sustainability from a concern, to a core value to minimize energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and waste. These data centers must also be designed to meet resiliency and performance targets. In this paper, we define the network edge, and briefly de-scribe how the telco cloud and IT cloud architectures will converge into a single and complementary architecture. We define the three types of distributed local edge data centers that are the building blocks of this convergence. From here we analyze the unique scaling challenges and propose best practices to help data center owners and operators deploy sustainable and resilient distributed local edge data centers at scale, at the network edge.
Best practices to deploy sustainable and resilient data centers at scale
Demand for low latency points to a converged IT and telco architecture and data center requirements
Best practices to deploy sustainable and resilient data centers at scale at the network edge
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