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High-Speed Data in Industrial, Automotive, Healthcare, and Data Centers 8 "Part of the trend toward acceleration is the opportunity to use resources more efficiently," Petrie adds. "If you're dealing with a massive data set from a huge hyperscale data center, things get more complicated and potentially more expensive quickly. The goal is to improve overall resource utilization across all data center operations." Equally important is ensuring heightened levels of resiliency and security made possible by increasingly smart data center cells and software-driven diagnostics. Data center operators have always made uptime a top priority, as the cost of an outage can be catastrophic. When Akamai experienced an outage of its Edge domain name system (Edge DNS) service, websites around the world were affected, including Airbnb, Amazon, Fidelity Investments, and UPS. As the impact of downtime is measured in minutes and millions, it's reassuring to know that a fix was expedited, enabling normal operations to resume in less than an hour. Expect continued emphasis on resiliency, especially now that smart hardware can self-diagnose when a problem occurs while redirecting data traffic to a backup port to reduce loss of services. Critical Connections To keep pace with the ever-rising data glut, data center operators are striving to meet ballooning bandwidth and interconnectivity requirements. A decade ago, connectivity was among the last items addressed during build-out or expansion efforts. Now, however, high-density interconnect solutions are being designed into next-gen data centers from the onset. Along those same lines, it's crucial to follow and embrace evolving standards efforts to support open communications across heterogeneous compute, storage and networking environments. As an active participant in the Open Compute Project (OCP), and with an extensive product line dedicated to Project Open19 compliance, Molex is committed to developing connectivity products that enable enterprises to deploy a diverse set of compute, servers, storage, and network accelerators and connectors within data centers. Having a full portfolio of data center interconnect products is one vital way that Molex demonstrates its commitment to supporting data centers of the future. Another way is through ongoing collaborations with leaders across the data center ecosystem to deliver a full menu of high-speed interconnect solutions. Recent innovations include a "near ASIC" solution that lets "bi-pass connectors" be placed directly on a chip substrate package, along with new 112G Active Electric Copper Cables and 100G / 400G Optical Transceivers to fuel both intra-data center interconnect and data center interconnect demands. At BittWare, advancements extend its IA-Series of Intel® Agilex™ FPGA-based accelerators to support the most data-intensive workloads. As a trusted advisor to some of the biggest and most well- known names in data center environments, Molex is embracing the most impactful changes across the data center landscape today to ensure enterprises can achieve the most value tomorrow. n Learn More EXTreme Ten60Power Hybrid Power/Signal Connectors