Market Trends of US Data Center Rack Industry
Cloud segment to hold major share in the market
- Of U.S. corporate infrastructure decision-makers, 94% have at least one cloud deployment, with hybrid or multi-cloud solutions more common. Nearly 74% of U.S. infrastructure decision-makers say their organizations are adopting containers as a platform as a service (PaaS) in on-premises or public cloud environments. Clouds are expected to increase significantly.
- U.S. cloud providers include AWS, Microsoft, and Google; among enterprise infrastructure decision-makers who use at least one type of cloud deployment, 94% use at least one type of cloud deployment, with the majority being hybrid or multi-cloud.
- In the United States, cloud storage is growing due to the growing demand for cost-effective data backup, storage, and backup in every business and the need to manage the data generated by the increasing use of mobile phones.
- With the rise of the digital economy and increased internet usage in the United States, the need for data storage and processing has increased. The proliferation of hybrid cloud service providers has increased demand for colocation services and increased rack utilization.
Full rack segment to hold major share in the market
- In the United States, full racks occupy a large market share due to the growing space shortage among various companies.
- The growing use of IoT platforms in various sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, and cities has increased data consumption, driving demand for full-rack data centers in the United States.
- Additionally, with the advent of 5G and the increasing use of smartphones, we need to ensure adequate speed availability. As a result, the country has adopted cloud computing, increased the number of Internet users, and adopted fiber optic technology. With the introduction of such technologies and the increase in data usage, the use of full-rack data centers is increasing in the country.
- By 2023, approximately 92% of the US population will likely use the Internet, up from approximately 75% in 2012. The United States was one of the world's largest online markets, with approximately 299 million internet users in the country in 2022. This equates to increased data storage in a full-rack data center.
- Initially, the focus was limited to rack space within the data center. Only size and cost were considered in the deployment. Nonetheless, data center rack space utilization is expected to continue to grow as users grow in various industries, such as online banking, telecommunications, media, entertainment, and other high-density applications.