by Angela Guess
A recent article comments, “The enterprise data centre is moving to the next stage of transformation. Server virtualisation technology has changed the way applications are provisioned and managed to improve cost-efficiency and business effectiveness. The fact is, though, some data centre architectures are still in phase one of the evolution. They are still built around complex, heterogeneous silos of servers and storage systems that result in poor utilisation and captive resources.”
The article continues, “These resources need multiple provisioning toolsets, data management processes and teams of people to manage them. In addition, massive data growth combined with power, cooling and space limitations exert extreme pressure on the responsiveness of IT. To ensure their business is still relevant, most organisations today have as a priority to boost business efficiency and cut costs. Unfortunately, 70% of IT budgets still go towards ‘keeping the lights on’ rather than innovation to ensure relevance.”
It goes on, “To a degree, this trend could be attributed to the fact that business does not know where to start. Many vendors and industry experts have published best practices and white papers on how to go about evolving the current state to a new-generation data centre. However, it is a different scenario when a CIO needs to take accountability and responsibly to establish an evolution roadmap that is not only realistic and within budget, but more importantly, executable with no risk to business continuity.”
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