Market Trends of UK Data Center Rack Industry
Full Rack accounted for majority market share in 2022
- Due to the increasing shortage of space in various companies, a full rack in the data center has taken a large part of the market share in France. The demand for full-rack data center infrastructure is increasing to cope with the increasing rack size due to the rapid growth of mobile broadband networks due to the increase in big data analytics combined with cloud computing.
- With large amounts of data generated every day, businesses rely on data centers to efficiently manage data and storage. Therefore, the increasing use of full-rack data centers is the most important factor affecting data center rack consumption. Increasing demand for technology services and investments by large companies are also changing the market growth.
- Initially, the focus was solely on data center rack infrastructure, with only size and cost considered during deployment. However, the introduction of high-density applications by various end-users, such as online banking, IT and telecommunications, media, and entertainment, creates opportunities for increased usage of full racks of data centers.
- E-commerce companies use data stored in their data centers in highly effective ways, such as improving their machine-learning capabilities to assist customers. The UK e-commerce market operated at an IT load capacity of 51.60 MW in 2022. The capacity is expected to grow from 63.11 MW in 2023 to 144.98 MW in 2029, registering a CAGR of 14.87%. The United Kingdom is the fourth-largest market for e-commerce. Thus, a large amount of data is generated daily from ecommerce, increasing the requirement for full racks in the country.
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Cloud sector is the fastest growing sector in the country
- Emerging technologies and convergence of technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and machine learning will enable further growth in cloud computing and drive the development of the UK cloud computing market over the next five years.
- With cloud storage, the customer or company uses the provider's servers and hardware to store their data or run their systems. Some colocation providers not only offer data center hosting for customer systems but also offer managed services that isolate virtualized workloads in a multi-tenant server environment.
- In June 2022, the UK government announced that the value of cloud services for 2021-2022 was expected to exceed GBP 280 million (USD 340968600). Through the G-Cloud Procurement Framework, in just the fiscal year.
- In March 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) doubled its investment in the UK by investing £1.8bn in UK cloud computing infrastructure over the next two years. AWS is a cloud provider, but it faces increasing competition from tech giants Microsoft and Google in a battle for enterprise customers.
- Growing competition in the sector would increase the demand for more DC facilities with large data storage devices, creating demand for data center racks.
