Fifty-one percent of data center managers say that technology refreshes are the top priority for 2011, highlighting that mean time to migrate (MTTM) is critical for rapid adoption of new technologies and fast execution of these operations, according to a survey.
This was followed by data center consolidation, which 41.5 percent indicated was a top concern; 34.5 percent indicated the intent to migrate to a public or private cloud; 32.7 percent expect to transition to a virtualized Storage Area Network (SAN); 26.5 percent said that SAN optimization or re-tiering was a priority and 21 percent cited diversification of storage hardware as a top priority.
-- When asked about the most difficult issues they expect to deal with, 39 percent said multi-departmental coordination was a top concern, while 35 percent said that server remediation, SAN configuration errors, asset discovery and multi-departmental coordination were all challenging issues.
-- On the topic of SAN migrations and whether or not these activities were completed in a timely manner and met budgetary requirements, 41.5 percent said that only 0-20 percent of their migrations were completed on time and on budget; 62 percent said that 40 percent or fewer migrations completed on time and within budget. Finally, 79 percent have had less than 60 percent of their migrations meet their budgetary/time requirements.
Comment from Greg Schulz, founder of the Server and StorageIO Group: These results echo what is routinely heard from IT professionals who face these recurring challenges. There is no such thing as a data or information recession, This means that as IT budgets for some expand, those organizations also need to do more with what they have including support growth and technology refreshes in 2011. IT organizations focus much of their staff as well as wall or calendar time on data migrations to support technology refresh and upgrades along with consolidation initiatives. With the complexities associated with large scale migration or technology updates not to mention multi-departmental workflow coordination, IT organizations stand to recover these resources by reducing their mean time to migrate (MTTM). Many large IT organizations have already implemented phased refresh schedules where each year a portion of their technology gets refreshed. However budgets or spending remain constrained. Organizations need to find creative and innovate ways to maximize their IT investments which includes reducing their MTTM, the result of which is to boost their effectiveness by stretching both staff as well as resources (server and storage hardware/software) further.
Comment from Joy Burd, vice president of marketing communication for SANpulse Technologies, Inc.: The survey confirms our customers' experiences. Data center consolidation and technology refreshes continue to be what are keeping administrators up at night. Organizations rely on new technologies and consolidation to remain efficient and competitive -- which can be a challenge when called on to do more with the same or less budget. SANpulse streamlines these operations to significantly reduce time requirements while reducing the cost, complexity and risk of traditional manual means.
Contact: A detailed white paper on this subject titled "End to End Resource Analysis for Virtual, Cloud and Abstracted Environments" is available here.
About the survey: SANpulse Technologies, Inc. conducted the survey among more than 100 large enterprises in December 2010 across a range of industries.The survey asked data center managers and decision makers at large organizations to rank data center priorities, based on importance. It also asked individuals to rank which projects on their 2011 IT roadmap are expected to be the most challenging and difficult to deal with.
Contact: http://www.SANpulse.com
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