In the last few years, the world has entirely relied on digital services that have shifted an economy towards the digital economy. And this digital economy is transforming businesses across industries, speeding up rapid fundamental changes and their operating models. While digital technologies have already changed the ways wherein businesses interact with their potential customers, it means they are increasingly utilizing more data to facilitate their business processes.

Since, the world is connected through the sophisticated network infrastructure, delivering data is becoming more easier with real-time connections. And when more data is being transferred, it requires a robust infrastructure to carry the workloads. Thus, to harness the power of digital transformation, businesses need to invest in information and communications technology (ICT), particularly in data centers and network capabilities.

By investing in data centers, companies can store and process their data at large. These data centers ensure the smooth running of their supply chain by offering steadiness. It also delivers security to physical servers and data that make data centers as an essential asset for the digital economy.

The data center space has evolved into every industry of great economic significance. Considering reports, the global market of data centers is predicted to reach over US$174 billion by 2023, as the adoption of multi-cloud services is increasing rapidly.

The Need of Modern Data Centers for Digital Economy 

A data center is a facility that stores servers, data and all the IT infrastructures required to keep safe and running reliably. Companies, organizations, or any entity that produces and leveraged data should invest in data centers.

Many enterprises use data centers because of their interconnectivity that can assist in enabling fast transmission of data over long distances between data centers. This interconnectivity offers greater access to customers and also paves the way for more data center locations and improved network resilience to power outages.

Today, data center operators have become aware of the value it adds for customers and to facilitate faster movement of data they are increasingly replacing the traditional 3-tier network with 2-tier leaf-spine architecture. Leaf-spine is a two-layer data center network topology that facilitates faster movement of data across physical links in the network. Thus, practicing a leaf-spine architecture, it can radically augment the number of fibers required to serve interconnection in the data center campus.

So, a data center is a critical asset for the digital economy as enterprises' daily operations need to rely heavily on their data centers in today's digitized world to store, communicate, and transport data without a hitch. And to construct a data center, organizations must consider factors such as energy use and efficiency, and security that can carry sensitive data.