The study's findings indicate a worrying lack of planning and preparedness for today's constantly evolving data ecosystem. A closer look at the results reveals a stark contrast between executives and engineers: 11% of executives say their data centers are being upgraded to anticipate current needs, while only 1% of engineers say the same.
“As today’s data centers evolve to incorporate enterprise, cloud, and edge resources, careful planning and forecasting are needed to meet organizations’ computing requirements and business objectives,” said Martin Olsen, vice president of Global Edge Systems at Vertiv. “It’s clear, however, that many organizations are falling behind. Given this, we can anticipate significant investment and a lot of activity from businesses trying to catch up and stay ahead of the curve.”
Among the study's findings, we can highlight the following:
- 92% of chief information officers (CIOs) and chief technology officers (CTOs) indicate that their businesses will require faster download and response times in the immediate future.
- 63% report having difficulty meeting bandwidth needs at all times.
- Security (45%) and bandwidth (43%) are the two areas most in need of improvement.
- Security (43%), backup and emergency preparedness (33%), the ability to deploy new technologies (28%), and bandwidth (27%) were the most frequently identified features that will provide companies with a competitive advantage.
- Respondents are optimistic about self-configuration and automatic troubleshooting of data centers. 24% stated that more than half of their data centers will be self-configuring by 2025, and 32% indicated that more than half will be able to automatically troubleshoot.
