As the green data centre market grows, and new technologies like virtualisation continue to achieve greater uptake, custom braided cables may offer one way to support the need for more and more inter-connection between servers.
Virtualisation is a means of spreading a single application across several servers, effectively pooling the processing power of them all into a single, more powerful virtual machine. However, it requires fast and reliable connections to be in place between the servers, so that the different parts of the virtualised application can communicate with one another at the desired speed.
This is where custom braided cables can help, offering a robust and reliable direct cable connection between different pieces of hardware, and ensuring that bandwidth does not become the limiting factor in virtualised server environments.
According to Pike Research, virtualisation is just one of a number of green data centre trends driving the market for eco-conscious installations onwards. By 2016, the worldwide market for green data centres will be worth an estimated $45 billion (£28 billion), a compound annual growth rate of 28% between now and then.
With virtualisation named alongside cloud computing as the two “powerful trends” in IT at the moment, choosing the right cable solutions could become more important than ever over the course of the coming years.
