98 Pct of ITDMs Feel Data Center Management Is Important To Their Companies: Survey


BANGALORE: Dell, leading end-to-end solutions provider announced the results of its Future Ready IT Survey conducted by Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), to identify the key requirements driving IT decision making across the globe. The survey interviewed respondents about the most important IT trends, significance of hyperscale computing, workloads, data center management and converged Infrastructure and how these would play a role in shaping the data center.

“At Dell, customer conversations play a significant role in shaping our products and services. Dell listens to its customers and builds solutions that address performance requirements, simplify management, and optimize workloads that scale and for every scale. With the Future Ready IT Survey, we have taken our culture of customer inspired innovation to the next level by taking inputs from customers across the globe in a scientific manner to determine what it is that our customer really requires in the ever changing IT landscape.” said Ravi Pendekanti, Vice President, Server Product Marketing, Dell Inc.

Adding to this Manish Gupta, Director, Enterprise Solutions Group - Dell India said: “Organisations in India have been at the forefront of technology adoption. They understand the need for more efficient, scalable IT infrastructure and the direct co-relation it has to business productivity. The survey has helped us better understand what products and solutions are apt for the Indian customer and how they can be adapted in this direction.”

Mobility and Big Data seen as the most important IT trends in India

The data center today is evolving. Industry forces such as cloud computing, mobility, big data and software-defined are rewriting the rules of IT and in turn are changing the way technology architectures are being developed.  IT Decisions Makers in India and globally are realising the importance of these trends and the influence they are having on IT. In India:

66 percent of ITDMs felt that Mobility is the most important technology trend to their organisation; followed by Big Data (65 pct) and Cloud Computing (63 pct)

53 percent of ITDMs stated that they will be investing in Cloud Computing in the next one year; followed by Mobility (41pct)

68 percent of Indian organisations have already deployed software defined storage solutions

74 percent of ITDMs were very concerned ‘Security, Compliance and Data Protection’ issues in their organisation; 59 percent were concerned with managing opex

Organisations aspire to hyperscale IT similar to Facebook and Amazon
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