According to the Uptime Institute 2016 Data Center Industry survey, findings show industry poised for major realignment, with need to better emulate service providers.
Uptime Institute has announced the results of the 2016 Uptime Institute Data Center Industry Survey. The sixth annual survey provides an overview of the major trends shaping IT infrastructure delivery and strategy. According to survey findings, 50% of senior enterprise IT executives expect the majority of IT workloads to reside off-premise in cloud or colocation sites in the future. Of those respondents 70% expect that shift to occur by 2020, and 23% expect the shift will happen by next year.
“The shift is occurring, and our findings show an industry in a state of flux,” said Matt Stansberry, director of content and publications for Uptime Institute. “We saw the trends lining up beginning with our 2013 survey, noting that enterprise IT teams were not effectively communicating data center cost and performance metrics to their C-level executives. The business demand for agility and cost transparency has driven workloads to the public cloud. Our counsel to data center and IT professionals is to become more effective at articulating and showcasing their value to the business.”