Legacy kit causes cloud drag, claims Brocade
July 10, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.
Reliance on legacy IT infrastructure is having a significant impact on productivity, reliability and costs, with constant upgrades needed to keep up with the networking requirements of virtualisation and cloud computing. This is one of the key findings of a global study of 1,750 enterprise IT decision makers and office workers into the networking problems faced by companies today.
According to the report, commissioned by networking vendor Brocade, dependence on out-dated datacentres means one third of respondents admitted their organisations experience multiple network failures per week. Additionally, while 75 per cent of IT decision makers surveyed said they had updated their IT environments in the last three years, 91 per cent said their existing infrastructures still required substantial upgrades to meet the standards required for integration with virtualisation and cloud technologies…
Sixty one per cent of datacentre personnel claimed their corporate networks were not fit for purpose and 41 per cent said network downtime had directly caused their business financial problems, either through lost revenue or a breach of SLAs…
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