A blueprint for total asset life-cycle ownership at hyperscale and cloud provider datacenters

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This IDC InfoBrief examines why hyperscale and cloud provider datacenter leaders worldwide are addressing their unique asset circularity and refresh challenges with intelligent approaches to owning the total asset life cycle, covering procurement, deployment, recovery, redeployment, and asset disposition.

February 11, 202612  mins
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Total asset life-cycle ownership is the standard for achieving speed, scale, and security in hyperscale and cloud provider datacenter operations.

  • This IDC InfoBrief examines why hyperscale and cloud provider datacenter leaders worldwide are addressing their unique asset circularity and refresh challenges with intelligent approaches to owning the total asset life cycle, covering procurement, deployment, recovery, redeployment, and asset disposition.
  • Beginning with the end in mind: For hyperscale datacenter operations, asset refresh best practices are critical to achieving service delivery objectives. The integration of automated data sanitization and telemetry data addresses key challenges in end-of-life asset life-cycle management across global operations, facilitating asset recovery and reuse.
  • This project draws from IDC research to identify best practices in total asset life-cycle ownership, focused on IT leaders’ investments in service provider partnerships to deliver circularity at the requisite scale and speed of the hyperscale datacenter business.

Hyperscale and cloud provider datacenters worldwide employ total asset life-cycle ownership

The hyperscale and cloud provider landscape is at the leading edge of the AI era and is navigating fundamental shifts in asset life-cycle management. Owning the asset life cycle is paramount to business success for leaders of these datacenters, driven by business outcomes
across four key areas:

Drivers for total asset life-cycle ownership

Owning the complete asset life cycle matters

Embracing truly circular approaches enables hyperscale and cloud provider datacenter leaders to:

  • Improve cost structures
  • Reduce risk in operations through closed-loop supply chains
  • Deliver on sustainability metrics
  • Ensure security with auditable records of security attestations and certificates of destruction
  • Improve speed to market by keeping logistics local, further enabling speed and scale