| | October 20218 Network InfrastructureHOW NEXT-GENERATION CONNECTIVITY CAN HELPHYPERSCALE DATA CENTERS MEET GROWING DEMANDBy Brian Rhoney, Director of Data Center Market Development, CorningThe enormous growth in demand for bandwidth among both consumers and global enterprises means that data centers need to be constantly expanding to supply more computing, storage and networking capacity. In addition, there are new applications in machine learning using Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) that increase connectivity demands in the data center. Increasingly, more and more of this storage and computation happens at hyperscale data centers ­ the term used for massive business-critical facilities designed to efficiently support robust, scalable applications. These hyperscale centers, along with edge compute sites, are growing quickly along with market demand, and are expected to have total revenues of $108 billion by 2025. There are now approximately 600 of these hyperscale centers in operation globally, twice the number of five years ago.The business of hyperscale data centers varies greatly from Cloud Platforms (SAAS, PAAS), to social media, internet search, gaming platforms, and others. It's not hard to browse some of these companies' quarterly reports to see that these are financially lucrative IN MY OPINION
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