Data Center Changes Come Slow and Steady
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Server, Virtualization Budgets for 2014
Budgets are flattening as the number of organizations increasing spending dropped from 45% in 2013. For this year, 32% see an increase, 26% a decrease and 46% say it will remain the same. -
Top Server, Virtualization Projects
Server hardware still dominates the IT agenda: standardization/consolidation/refresh: 60%; private cloud: 15%; cloud virtualization infrastructure: 14%. -
Server, Virtualization: Main Pain Points
IT organizations appear to have most issues under control: cost/budget: 16%; virtual machine monitoring: 12%; storage issues: 12%; infrastructure management: 12%; insufficient resources: 11%. -
IT Teams Evolve
Almost half (47%) report major changes to the IT team in last 12 months: reorganized: 40%; integrated teams: 27%; staff reduction: 21%; increased staff and responsibility: 7%; outsourced: 4%. -
Server, Virtualization Team Measurements
Agility is becoming an increasingly important performance indicator: time to provision: 22%; time to resolution: 21%; uptime: 17%; servers managed per full-time employee: 16%; availability: 8%; service-level agreements: 7%. -
Server, Virtualization Hardware Tech Not Planning to Implement
It takes many years for emerging technologies to gain acceptance in the data center: microservers: 94%; cloud appliance: 81%; data/business analytics appliance: 71%; converged infrastructure: 66%; unified computing: 58%; database and data warehouse appliance: 56%; solid-state disk or flash memory: 52%. -
Server, Virtualization Software Tech Not Planning to Implement
Advanced management capabilities are still a tough sell: policy-based service management: 80%; pay-per-use accounting (chargeback): 74%; assured-availability management software: 72%; policy-based provisioning: 69%; root-cause analysis: 62%. -
Key Areas Server, Virtualization Spending Will Increase in 2014
Software spending is starting to move ahead of hardware: x86 hypervisor software: 41%; Linux: 32%; x86 blade servers: 30%; unified computing: 21%; converged infrastructure: 20%. -
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Although there has been more innovation in the data center in the last year than any other time in recent memory, channel companies seeking to make money from technologies that promise to transform the way the data center is managed will need to be patient. It's inevitable that most of these technologies will be deployed, given the need to scale systems in the age of the cloud. But a new survey of 180 server and virtualization professionals conducted by TheInfoPro, an arm of 451 Research, finds that the rate at which new technologies are being adopted in the data center is slowing. In fact, the study indicates that most IT organizations appear to have most data center management issues under control, and for them, the desire to shift to the cloud is not all that pressing. Organizations are clearly moving toward building private clouds. But the pace of that migration could best be described as steady rather than explosive, and most of the growth is focused on software rather than hardware. In the meantime, traditional issues such as server consolidation continue to be the primary factor driving change in the data center. Channel Insider examines key takeaways from the study.
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