Headaches ahead for IT managers, predicts IDC
IT managers will increasingly be expected to redesign core data centre architectures to cope with evolving business models, analysts warned today.
Many data centres will need to be fundamentally re-engineered to meet the challenges ahead, according to new research from IDC, as US enterprises accelerate initiatives around growing their business.
IT organisations will need to begin condensing data centre infrastructures to deliver new IT services while increasing service levels and maintaining or even lowering IT budgets and staffing levels, the analyst firm predicts.
"The transformation of the data centre relies on the IT organisation's ability to deliver increased levels of flexibility and service," said Michelle Bailey, research director for IDC's Enterprise Computing group.
"Many industries continue to view IT as a strategic differentiator, and a static one-dimensional technology platform that drives economies of scale will severely limit future business potential."
Additionally, IT budgets, often strained by the need for real estate, power and cooling, will shift towards building new applications and IT services specifically developed to drive new business.
"Virtualisation, simplification, optimisation, and automation are all key drivers influencing the successful transformation of the US data centre," added Bailey.
The IDC report found that, unlike the huge cost-cutting initiatives of the first part of this decade, US businesses are again focused on growth.
In addition, business initiatives that involve bringing new products to market and expanding into new customer segments are increasingly dependent on technology, making time-to-market an imperative for many IT organisations.
New applications are increasingly becoming dependent on access to data in real time, or near real time, driving the need for higher levels of processing.
Tomorrow's data centre will be "denser, hotter, more consolidated, highly utilised, better designed, fully redundant and very dynamic", the analyst predicted.
Automation will be the key to containing costs as the need for processing continues to increase.
However, IDC pointed to regulatory issues that remain a "major concern" for large US organisations, further driving requirements for availability and disaster recovery.
As data centre technologies shift, and as IT becomes more tightly linked with the business, skill sets in the data centre will also evolve.
IDC believes that automation will moderate the number of systems administrators required, while business analysts will play an increasingly important role.
IT managers will increasingly be expected to redesign core data centre architectures to cope with evolving business models, analysts warned today.
Many data centres will need to be fundamentally re-engineered to meet the challenges ahead, according to new research from IDC, as US enterprises accelerate initiatives around growing their business.
IT organisations will need to begin condensing data centre infrastructures to deliver new IT services while increasing service levels and maintaining or even lowering IT budgets and staffing levels, the analyst firm predicts.
"The transformation of the data centre relies on the IT organisation's ability to deliver increased levels of flexibility and service," said Michelle Bailey, research director for IDC's Enterprise Computing group.
"Many industries continue to view IT as a strategic differentiator, and a static one-dimensional technology platform that drives economies of scale will severely limit future business potential."
Additionally, IT budgets, often strained by the need for real estate, power and cooling, will shift towards building new applications and IT services specifically developed to drive new business.
"Virtualisation, simplification, optimisation, and automation are all key drivers influencing the successful transformation of the US data centre," added Bailey.
The IDC report found that, unlike the huge cost-cutting initiatives of the first part of this decade, US businesses are again focused on growth.
In addition, business initiatives that involve bringing new products to market and expanding into new customer segments are increasingly dependent on technology, making time-to-market an imperative for many IT organisations.
New applications are increasingly becoming dependent on access to data in real time, or near real time, driving the need for higher levels of processing.
Tomorrow's data centre will be "denser, hotter, more consolidated, highly utilised, better designed, fully redundant and very dynamic", the analyst predicted.
Automation will be the key to containing costs as the need for processing continues to increase.
However, IDC pointed to regulatory issues that remain a "major concern" for large US organisations, further driving requirements for availability and disaster recovery.
As data centre technologies shift, and as IT becomes more tightly linked with the business, skill sets in the data centre will also evolve.
IDC believes that automation will moderate the number of systems administrators required, while business analysts will play an increasingly important role.
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