New Study Shows Data Center Needs Quickly Outgrowing Current Solutions
Siemens to host industry discussions on “The State of the Data Center” to identify and address rapidly changing market needs throughout the summer.
The explosion of data generated and used by corporations, organizations, and individuals today places constant demands on data centers, from space constraints to power usage, cooling loads, and physical security. These findings appear in a new study conducted by Siemens, UBM Tech, and InformationWeek Marketing Services. According to the results, most executives feel that their organization’s data centers will run out of power, cooling, or space by the end of 2014.
In a 2008 Siemens-sponsored study of data center energy efficiency, aging facilities were much less of a concern (only 15%) than lack of processing capacity (27%) or the risk of losing data (25%). Nowadays, aging facility infrastructure is a growing concern, with 31% of IT pros flagging this as their chief problem, followed by concerns about equipment issues, such as running out of processing headroom (27%) and the fear of losing data (15%). This highlighted another notable trend: the growing nexus between facilities management and IT management, areas that were traditionally treated as distinctly different silos within an organization.