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January 8th, 2020
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More so than ever before, shoppers are avoiding malls and high streets in favor of buying online; quick, convenient and you can get a great deal without even leaving the comfort of your home!
While there are many companies that trade solely online, Amazon and eBay being prime examples, companies with a physical retail presence are also putting a lot of resource and investment in to their online offering, optimizing their websites for mobile use and even going so far as to create Apple and Android apps as customers increasingly use smartphones to spend their hard-earned cash.
As retailers focus more on e-commerce as part of their business model, it is vital a reliable IT infrastructure network is in place in the background to support this digital footfall…this is where data centers come in.
Worldwide, businesses of varying sizes and natures now rely on data center services and cloud computing to support and enhance their e-commerce capabilities. In retail specifically, their primary role is to manage the processing and transferring of the large amounts of data generated.
So how much data are we actually talking about? To really understand the scale of online shopping and its impact on data centers, let’s take look at the facts:
The facts speak for themselves; online shopping is on the rise and doesn’t show signs of letting up. With global online retail sails set to total $2,489 trillion USD in 2018 (8.8% of total retail spending) and the latest research and analysis predicting a revenue of $4.058 trillion (14.6% of total retail spending) in 2020, e-commerce continues to grow in popularity and scale, placing more and more strain on networks as they try to cope with the sheer amounts of data flowing through their data centers.
With decades of expertise in the design and manufacture of network solutions, AFL Hyperscale have the capabilities and infrastructure to rapidly deliver pioneering, scalable network connectivity solutions across the globe to support evolving data center networks in meeting the demands of the latest consumer behaviours.
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