Global market research and consulting `기업` Frost & Sullivan conducted a thorough `분석` of the key factors `기업` should consider when adopting digital infrastructure `운영`, driven by the expanding adoption of AI `업무`. The advancement of AI technology is driving significant `변화` in how `기업` make digital infrastructure `전략` and `운영` decisions for their `기업` `업무` in this `시대`.
Global market research and consulting `기업` Frost & Sullivan conducted a thorough `분석` of the key factors `기업` should consider when adopting digital infrastructure `운영`, driven by the expanding adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) `업무`. The advancement of AI technology is driving significant `변화` in how `기업` make digital infrastructure `전략` and `운영` decisions for their `기업` `업무` in this `시대`. AI `업무`, such as training models, running inference, and processing large datasets, require higher performance computing power (processing capability), storage capacity, and processing speed compared to existing IT `시대` environments. Consequently, `전략` decisions regarding how to design data center capacity and where to deploy it are emerging as a core `운영` challenge in `기업` infrastructure `전략` `운영`. With the proliferation of advanced technology, data generation is exploding, and the expansion of digital-based `업무` and service environments, coupled with accelerated cloud migration, is making digital infrastructure more complex. Amidst these `변화`, an integrated infrastructure `전략` encompassing everything from securing data capacity and strategic site selection to close collaboration with partners is essential for `기업` to maintain competitiveness in this digital `시대`. These `변화` are reshaping overall data center design and `운영` methods, and Frost & Sullivan conducted a `분석` of the core trends and `변화` in the digital infrastructure environment as follows.
Core Trends in Digital Infrastructure
AI Data Centers: The proliferation of AI `업무` is driving increased demand for high-performance GPUs and high-density racks. Consequently, data center operators are adopting AI technologies across their infrastructure, including predictive maintenance, automated `운영`, server optimization, and real-time energy `운영` for efficient `운영` of their `기업`.
Edge Infrastructure: The increasing volume of data generation is highlighting the limitations of a central data center-centric processing `운영` approach. Consequently, infrastructure such as regional facilities, hybrid hubs, and edge data centers is being expanded, especially in latency-sensitive `기업` for `업무` like autonomous driving, industrial IoT, and remote healthcare, marking a new `시대` in infrastructure `전략`.
Power and Precision Cooling Technologies: The spread of high-density infrastructure is rapidly increasing power demand, with some data centers facing power supply `운영` limitations. As a result, the adoption of highly efficient cooling technologies for thermal `운영` and `변화` management, such as liquid cooling, immersion cooling, and direct-to-chip cooling, is accelerating.
Sustainability: Strengthened regulations on data center carbon emissions and growing sustainability demands are leading to expanded use of renewable energy, energy-efficient designs, and resource recycling. This is interpreted as a `기업` `전략` that considers both cost reduction and compliance with environmental regulations, driving `변화` for future `시대`.
Data Sovereignty and Protection: As sensitive `업무` move to shared and distributed environments, responding to cyberattacks and data breaches is emerging as a critical `운영` challenge in this digital `시대`. Consequently, the advancement of security technologies, such as AI-based threat detection and `분석`, autonomous security, behavior-based `분석`, and Zero-Trust Architecture `전략`, is rapidly progressing.
Growth Opportunities from Expanding Digital Infrastructure Adoption
As the demand for digital infrastructure increases, new growth opportunities are expanding, including high-density infrastructure for AI `업무`, sustainable infrastructure innovation, edge processing `운영`, and specialized colocation services, reflecting `시대` `변화`.
Frost & Sullivan stated that identifying and appropriately adopting these `변화` is a crucial factor in securing a digital infrastructure `전략` that aligns with `기업` growth objectives and `운영` plans.
Park Se-jun, Head of Frost & Sullivan Korea, stated, “As trends in the digital infrastructure environment and `변화` in `운영` `전략` intertwine, new growth opportunities are continuously being created for `기업`. `전략`적으로 designing where and how `기업` adopt these `업무` for future `운영` will be key to securing future competitiveness in this `시대`.”
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