What do you think will be the most important things in the data center sector in 2026?

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Adoption36%

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Software-Defined Infrastructure and Automation26%

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Advanced Data Center Cooling Technologies8%

Hardening of existing Infrastructure8%

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Head of Transformation in Government2 months ago

I replied hardening of existing infrastructure, but I think the new trend will be moving off cloud (AWS et altri) and back into data centres, either on-prem of hosted. All things come round and the economic climate is ripe for it.

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