Old datacenters troubling CIOs?

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 17:27 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Inefficient datacenters that were built around 10 years ago are having trouble in keeping up with the current technology. According to an IDC datacenter research report, this is leading to high operational costs, poor utilization levels and increasing complexity. The report also states that, replacing old datacenters is not simple, as the current economic environment has led many top executives to mandate CAPEX restrictions, which has forced CIOs to look for ways they can do more with the same, reports Manila Bulletin. Datacenter transformation is more than cost and capacity, and one which aims at building an IT architecture that is more agile and adaptive for the business. This is driven by the increasing pervasiveness of IT, which is driving businesses to use the same or even more IT than before. CIOs are in a dilemma because of this, and they are forced to think about new ways to build their IT fabric so that it is more elastic, flexible and agile. Transforming the current IT complexities to reduce the rigidity has been an arduous task for most IT heads, and one that they have continued to battle with over the past few years. According to the Manila Bulletin, the arrival of cloud computing has revived the hopes of CIOs to consider a new way of attacking this old problem, IDC said. Over the next few years, there will be an increasing interest in cloud computing from organizations. The research firm said that these organizations will have to start planning on building a more dynamic IT framework as a precursor. "There is a lot of pent-up demand for revamping and building new datacenters that have been postponed due to the ongoing recession," said Avneesh Saxena, Group Vice President for domain research at IDC Asia/Pacific. However, the demand for IT has not gone down and CIOs worry about coping with the turnaround as and when it comes through. "This has to lead to the emergence of adaptive and elastic IT framework - whether inside or outside the organization," he said.