Data Center by the Numbers What Are Your Peers Saying
About the Converged Data Center?
What is the most successful investment you made in the data center in the past 12 months?
34% 22% 18% 13% 11% 2% Other
Hardware or soſtware infrastructure refresh
Optimization for cost reduction or increased efficiency
Growth of IT skills or staffing
Haven’t made any significant investment in the data center this year
Modernize workloads to a next generation platform
Larger companies with 1,000+ employees are more likely to have made Ř ʊǔgnǔǞƋŘnǜ ǔnvƬʊǜmƬnǜ in the data center this year.
WRITTEN BY KURT HILDEBRAND W
E recently partnered with IDG, an industry-leading research organization, to conduct a poll on
Converged Data Center Trends in real-world IT organizations. The responses from IT decision makers were extremely interesting and shed some light on what’s going on today with the journey to the modern data center.
My take away from this poll is that organizations are facing a very dynamic mix of old and new challenges, and are looking at modern solutions to the business drivers facing IT today. Speaking as somebody with more than 15 years of experience delivering data center solutions for customers in a wide range of technology sets—from servers, storage,
virtualization, and networking to disaster recovery—I’ve been watching the incredibly rapid evolution of information technology with keen interest in recent years. Looking at some of these metrics from the poll, my IT “common sense radar” is going off like crazy as I notice opportunities for customers to leverage convergence to solve these business challenges.
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