Recently, Gartner released its 24th annual China Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Maturity Cycle Report, stating in the maturity curve that the "data center" has been eliminated. The data center, which was once regarded as an iconic piece of advanced architecture, is now fading from the stage of history.
Something that is forgotten before it actually dies.
In fact, as early as a few years ago, the domestic technical circle is no longer keen on the concept of data center, an IT media editor once said to me that they simply do not consider doing the data center theme, because too many vendors with the help of this concept to sell a variety of products, simply can not focus.
The overgeneralization of the concept of the data middle office has resulted in the use of the term in a way that is extremely costly to communicate and takes quite a bit of time to understand what the real intent is that the other party is trying to convey.
A common use of the data center, a common usage, is to refer to theComplete data platform solutionsOf course, the tools involved in this program can be broken down and sold separately. The data center in this context, like the McDonald's Family Bucket, is not essentially a new product, but simply a way to repackage the original product for marketing.
Another use, which I callData Warehouse for Medical AestheticsJust like an aging woman reclaiming her youth through medical beauty, the fashionable name of data center immediately removes the old-fashioned look of a data warehouse, but essentially there is not much difference between the two. For users who already have a data warehouse, vendors also have to refine the boundaries between the two in order to get new orders. And for users who have not built a data warehouse, data middleware is always happy to fulfill every imaginable aspect of a customer's data platform.
The concept is so fluid and elastic, like a greasy, mercenary, middle-aged man who can use every trick in the book to get what he wants. So much so, that the demise of the data center has even made me feel a little more refreshed in the world of data technology.
Of course, those ideals that were once projected onto the data center stage still hopefully live on and flourish. The really valuable thing is thatBased on strong enterprise-level capability reuse, theProvide more flexible, more agile, lower-cost data delivery capabilities, more emphasis on online data delivery than data warehouses, breaking through the traditional use of analytical reports and other modes of data modularization, embedded in business scenarios。
Expect the next concept to be an eyebrow-raising kid with a sense of boundaries.