This week’s Smart Infrastructure roundup features the future of data centers, and the latest in IT automation from Cypress Semiconductor’s new partnership with Appnomic Systems.

The future of data centers

Emerson Network Power released the result of its survey regarding how industry professionals see the future of data centers.  The report, “Data Center 2025: Exploring the Possibilities,” dissects the answers of more than 820 industry professionals globally, collecting their views on data center expectations in the coming decade.

Eighty-four percent of the respondents believe that datacenter infrastructure will become more efficient, but only 64 percent believe that datacenters in the future will use less energy to perform intensive computing tasks.  The respondents think utilizing solutions such as use of outside air and chip-level cooling will pave the way to increased efficiency in data centers.

Some of the survey participants also believe that data centers of the future will be utilizing renewable energy sources, radical changes in thermal management with air and liquid as the primary method, the emergence of self-healing data centers which requires little to no human input, and even the possibility of putting data centers under the sea to keep them cool.

A case study in IT automation

Cypress Semiconductor has leveraged Appnomic Systems’ RIMS+ solutions (technology-enabled Remote Infrastructure Managed Services), in a partnership that includes preventive automation technologies designed  to automate multiple IT operations processes. Such automation sets out to improve Cypress’ revenue gains, reduce systems error rates by over 70 percent, achieve compelling compliance risk reduction, reduce process cycle times, and increase process quality.

Because of the benefits Appnomic brings to Cypress, it has decided to extend its relationship by selecting Appnomic as one of the IT technology services providers for its global IT and network infrastructure operations.

“After more than four years of working together and with Appnomic’s recent investments in the U.S. market, Cypress Semiconductor is convinced that Appnomic has the technology, the management leadership, the cost structure, and the managed service delivery capabilities required to continue to achieve the high bar of excellence we expect from our vendors — at world class costs,” said Venki Sundaresan, Senior Director of IT at Cypress.

OpsOne, Appnomic’s unique IT Process Automation (ITPA) software and data center automation platform, will be bundled to its RIMS+ solution and will allow Cypress multiple script-like data center automation tasks.

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