Defense Sector to Register Significant Growth
With rugged work environments, ranging from sub-zero temperatures to sandstorms, the need for data centers that are built to withstand extreme temperatures and explosions is expected to grow. Although technology giants like Microsoft and Google were among the prominent users of containerized data centers, defense deployments have been evident since the 2000s.
New defense aimed data center solutions are a continuing trend. For instance, PacStar, a prominent communication technology provided its service for defense in the US, launched PacStar Modular Data Center (MDC) in October 2018. The MDC is a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product that is designed based on their PacStar 400-Series server modules, for easy installation and interoperability, warfighters to deploy data center-class computing and storage at the edge of tactical networks