North American enterprises plan to increase their data center infrastructure spending by an average of 25 percent in 2011, according to a survey. Cloud technologies will play a major role in this expansion and are among the top three expected data centers changes.
The survey also found that interest in 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) equals or exceeds interest in 40GE, despite the lack of available products.
Fiber Channel is the most used SAN technology, but respondents show strong interest in next generation FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) to streamline their data center networks
Comment from Matthias Machowinski, Infonetics Research's directing analyst for enterprise networks and video: 2010 was a strong year for data center network equipment sales, due to a rebound from bare-bones 2009 spending levels and, more importantly, fundamental trends favoring investments in the data center, such as the explosion of content and traffic, use of virtualization, and increasingly, cloud-based services and architectures. For 2011, we expect tempering but still robust growth in sales, and the biggest opportunities for vendors is in helping companies grow their data center infrastructure sustainably, such as through the use of products that dramatically increase price-to-performance or improve management in highly virtualized environments.
About the survey: For its Data Center Deployment Strategies survey, published in February 2011, Infonetics asked data center purchase decision-makers at 115 North American companies with 100 or more employees about their data center plans over the next 2 years. Survey respondents were asked to rate drivers for data center investments, technologies, applications, equipment and software, as well as their use of, plans for, and preferred features for data center technologies, including security, virtualization, storage, cloud-based services, servers, Ethernet switches, and more. The report includes responses to 2 open-ended questions about use and plans for cloud-based services and the top 3 major changes they plan to make to their data centers.
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