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Mid-sized firms faster to adopt new datacenter technologies
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 17:33 IST
Bangalore: Mid-sized enterprises are more likely to adopt new technologies in their datacenters than the small and large businesses, according to a recent survey of datacenter managers around the world.
Companies with 2,000-9,000 employees are more likely than others to adopt solutions across the entire range of most recent innovations in the datacenter space - from storage and server virtualization to private and public clouds, to data de-duplication - concluded the most recent annual study of the datacenter industry by data security solutions provider Symantec.
"Although mid-sized enterprises tend to evaluate and adopt new technologies at a faster rate than larger organizations, they still face similar datacenter complexities that are compounded by adopting new initiatives," said Deepak Mohan, Senior Vice President of Symantec's Information Management Group, in a statement. "Standardizing on cross-platform solutions that can manage new technologies and automate processes will drive immediate cost reduction and make their jobs easier in the long run."
Conclusions in Symantec's 2010 State of the datacenter report are based on surveys of 1,780 datacenter managers in 26 countries, researchers conducted in November 2009. The study considers companies with less than 2,000 employees to be small enterprises and companies with 10,000 or more employees to be large enterprises.
The study made five key findings, including the discovery of mid-size enterprises' comparative aggressiveness in adopting new technologies. The second finding was that IT managers were having a hard time doing their work as datacenter complexity increased.
More than one-third of managers surveyed, said that too many applications and datacenter complexity were large impediments to staff productivity. Third key finding was that top initiatives for IT departments across most of the industry were security, back-up and recovery and continuous data protection - ahead of virtualization and cloud computing.
The remaining two findings were that many IT managers thought their organizations were understaffed and that many organizations were in need of developing better and more clearly defined disaster recovery plans.
