Businesses are paying greater attention to the flexibility and efficiency companies such as Facebook and Amazon are able to build into their data centers. These data centers are constructed to scale with the demands of specific web front-end applications. Infact, Gartner predicted this ‘hyperscale IT’ as one of the top strategic technology trends for 2014. ITDMS in India were especially interested in ‘hyperscale IT’, well over the global average. In India:

90 percent  of ITDMs are interested in making IT work like hyperscale types

77 percent of ITDMs see operational efficiencies as an important benefit of hyperscale computing

59 percent  felt that it is a low cost investment

Most Indian companies (62 percent) felt that management was a barrier to their adoption of hyperscale computing

Data center Management should be remote and less complex

Automation and simplicity in the data center are the key factors driving data center management. The emergence of big technology trends such as Big Data, Mobility, Cloud Computing and Software Defined Enterprise will place greater demands on efficiency from the data center. Across markets IT Decision Makers believe data center management is importance and reducing operational complexity will make data center management simpler. In India:

98 percent of ITDMs felt that Data center management is most important out of which 81 percent companies stated it as being “very important”

55 percent of ITDMs are concerned about their ability to address data center issues quickly.

65 percent of ITDMs are able to manage their data centers remotely

75 percent ITDMs felt that reducing operational complexity will make data center management simpler

Ability to optimize applications and performance most important to ITDMs
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