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Technology refresh is top priority SANPULSE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. HAS ANNOUNCED
THE FINDINGS OF A NEW IT SURVEY. The results of the study, conducted across more than 100 large enterprises, provides insight into the priorities data center managers have over the next twelve months as well as the concerns surrounding the most common and difficult tasks they will face in 2011. The SANpulse inquiry asked data center managers and decision makers at large organizations to rank data center priorities, based on importance. It also asked individuals to rank which projects on their 2011 IT roadmap are expected to be the most challenging and difficult to deal with. Key findings from respondents included the following:
51% of respondents indicated that technology refreshes were the top priority for 2011, highlighting that mean time to migrate (MTTM) was critical for rapid adoption of new technologies and fast execution of these operations. This was followed by data center consolidation, which 41.5% of respondents indicated was a top concern. 34.5% of respondents indicated the intent to migrate to a public or private cloud; 32.7% expect to transition to a virtualized Storage Area Network (SAN); 26.5% said that SAN optimization or re-tiering was a priority and 21% cited diversification of storage hardware as a top priority. When asked about the most difficult issues they expect to deal with, 39% responded that multi-departmental coordination was a top concern. 35% said that server remediation, SAN configuration errors, asset discovery and multi-departmental coordination were all challenging issues.
On the topic of SAN migrations and whether or not these activities were completed in a timely manner and met budgetary requirements, 41.5% of the respondents said that only 0-20% of their migrations were completed on time and on budget. 62% said that 40% or fewer migrations completed on time and within budget. Finally, 79% have had less than 60% of their migrations meet their budgetary/time requirements.
Greg Schulz, founder of the Server and StorageIO Group, commented: “IT organizations focus much of their staff as well as wall or calendar time on data migrations to support technology refresh and upgrades along with consolidation initiatives. With the complexities associated with large scale migration or technology updates not to mention multi-departmental workflow coordination, IT organizations stand to recover these resources by reducing their mean time to migrate (MTTM).”
40% of global executives block Cloud move
FORTY PERCENT OF C-LEVEL EXECUTIVES HAVE STATED THAT THEY ARE NOT PLANNING TO ADOPT CLOUD COMPUTING, according to the fourth Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT (GEIT, conducted by the nonprofit, IT Governance Institute (ITGI), ISACA’s research affiliate. Respondents who do not plan to use cloud computing at all in the near future list security (47%) and privacy concerns (50%), followed closely by legacy infrastructure investments (35%), as barriers to adoption. The 2011 study polled 834 executives from 21 countries, divided almost evenly between business executives (CEOs, CFOs and COOs) and IT executives (CIOs and heads of IT). Of the executives who use or plan to use cloud computing for IT services 60 percent was non-mission critical and 40
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percent would also trust the cloud for mission-critical IT services. Organizations are also actively employing outsourcing, with 93 percent fully or partially outsourcing some of their IT activities. “Emerging technologies such as cloud computing and outsourcing can be managed effectively by integrating good governance over IT. Organizations need to adopt new service delivery models to stay competitive, and this is fueling a strong commitment to enterprise IT governance across the C-suite,” said Ken Vander Wal international vice president. “Assessing the value of current investments, building consensus among stakeholders and mitigating risk with third-party providers all require a comprehensive governance framework for organizations to be sure they are doing the right things and doing things right.”
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