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Quocirca Research Report - Trends and Issues in Data Center Operations |
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Data centre asset planning
Regaining control of the data centre
After years of uncontrolled growth, many data centres face a crisis as they run into space and power constraints. While remedies exist, present business practices do not encourage the prioritisation of power reduction within one of the most power hungry areas of a business—the data centre
- Operational issues have data centres at a breaking point
The server sprawl that has been taking place for years is still continuing in a lot of companies, putting pressure on data centre managers who have to manage increasing numbers of servers with restricted budgets; the IT budgets of 87% of respondents are not growing in real terms.
- Data centre management is suffering
Under these pressures, data centre management is not as tight as it could be; 28% do not know the exact number of servers they have and 22% said it could take up to a day to find a server that had gone down, and another 20% taking longer than a day. In addition, space and power constraints are beginning to hit; 11% of data centres will run out of space this year, while 14% have already hit a power supply limit.
- Organisational and human issues contribute to the problem
Human factors, such as a lack of communication between different groups, contribute to the crisis. Groups such as facilities, commissioning, infrastructure etc. need to work together if the organisation is going to achieve common goals such as saving power. Organisational barriers also exist—less than one in five data centre decision makers have financial responsibility for data centre power consumption, and 55% are not even aware of what the power cost are.
The information presented in this report by Quocira Research was
derived from 301 interviews with senior IT influencers and decision
makers completed in November and December 2007 in the US, the UK and
other European countries. Respondents were from a mixture of large
multinationals and medium to large national organisations, from across
a broad cross section of industry sectors.
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