Cloud, mobile computing and virtualisation increase datacentre complexity
September 17, 2012
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Editorial Staff.
Organisations are struggling to cope with increasing datacentre complexity according to a global survey of 2,453 IT professionals from Symantec.
The vast majority (79%) of organisations globally said their datacentres were getting more complex Symantec’s 2012 State of the Data Centre Survey found. A rise in business-critical applications (cited by 65%, data growth (51%), mobile computing (44%), server virtualisation (43%) and public cloud (41%) were driving greater complexity in the datacentre environment.
Datacentre staff faced challenges in managing all aspects of IT including security and infrastructure, disaster recovery, storage and compliance within the datacentre due to the complexity of the environment, the study further revealed…
IT professionals also admitted datacentre complexity also led to increases in costs (47%), security breaches (46%), compliance incidents (43%), litigation exposure (43%) and downtime (41%). Other negative effects of datacentre complexity included reduced agility (41%) and missed SLAs (40%)…
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