36 I ICT TODAY
PROTECTING THE
FUTURE AT THE EDGE:
Addressing the Risks of Emerging
Edge Data Centers
By Jacques Fluet
With 75 billion connected devices expected by 2025 as forecasted by Statista, 5G deployments being rolled out
and the promise of a host of new technologies, the ICT industry will see an unprecedented amount of data that
requires rethinking the way data center infrastructure is built and managed. To meet the needs of new applications,
data needs to be hosted very close to users, and network functionality needs to be performed in milliseconds versus
having data processed and stored in centralized data centers located sometimes many cities away from its source.
