As analytics becomes deeply embedded everywhere, the focus of big data needs to shift to thinking about big questions and big answers first, and big data second.
While the IoT has been high on the media agenda for a while, it seems users are now beginning to accept it and vendors are starting to deliver real solutions.
The early view of DCIM which is confined to power and cooling management must be expanded to capture the evolution of the data centre, says James Young of CommScope.
The latest Data Centre Asia Pacific Census finds that 86 per cent of data centres here are being monitored continuously on their energy consumption compared with the global average of 68 per cent.