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High-Speed Data in Industrial, Automotive, Healthcare, and Data Centers 6 Flexibility is the name of the game in a digital-first world, which is transforming data centers as we've known them for decades. Depending on the latest industry analyst report or news cycle, some experts assert the future of data centers is hyperscale, while others believe processing power will be delivered locally, in the cloud and at the network's edge. Regardless of technologies, topologies, and terminologies, here's one thing everyone agrees on: Next-generation data centers must be agile, adaptable, distributed, efficient, and intelligent. According to Gartner, spending on global data center infrastructure is expected to reach almost $214 billion by the end of 2023. This represents a 13% increase over the spotty spending in 2020, as many enterprises put infrastructure investments on hold while relying more on public cloud providers to address pandemic- related business shifts and disruptions. The Future of Next-Gen Data Centers Has Arrived Murat Dogansoysal | Vice President of Sales, Molex Datacom and Specialty Solutions Cloud adoption, which was growing steadily before COVID-19, gained major momentum during the pandemic. According to Flexera's "2021: State of the Cloud Report," more than 92% of the 750 enterprises surveyed currently have a multi-cloud strategy, while 90% expect their cloud use to exceed plans due to the pandemic, an increasingly remote workforce, and a surge in videoconferencing. The report also reinforces the evolution of public and private cloud adoption, with 43% of those polled leveraging a hybrid strategy to meet business needs. As companies move from monolithic data center designs to distributed and disaggregated architectures, myriad new challenges emerge. Enterprises of all shapes and sizes are seeking ways to ease transitions to new heterogeneous environments. The ultimate goal: Choose from a menu of compute, storage, and networking options to best meet business needs while paying only for what is used.