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By Ericka Chickowski on 2010-02-06
Applied Research West recently tallied up surveys from over 1,700 organizations of all sizes from around the world for Symantec's annual State of the Data Center report. Unsurprisingly, the biggest priorities within these organizational nerve centers focused on availability and reliability of data, and on cost-saving measures such as virtualization, cloud migration and consolidation.
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- 1. Security
Absolutely Important: 57% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 26% of decision makers agree - 2. Backup and Recovery
Absolutely Important: 46% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 33% of decision makers agree - 3. Continuous Data Protection
Absolutely Important: 44% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 32% of decision makers agree - 4. Storage Resource Management
Absolutely Important: 32% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 40% of decision makers agree - 5. Server Virtualization
Absolutely Important: 32% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 40% of decision makers agree - 6. Data Archiving
Absolutely Important: 32% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 38% of decision makers agree - 7. Energy Savings
Absolutely Important: 34% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 36% of decision makers agree - 8. Replication of Backup Data
Absolutely Important: 34% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 35% of decision makers agree - 9. Server Consolidation
Absolutely Important: 31% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 38% of decision makers agree - 10. Storage Virtualization
Absolutely Important: 30% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 38% of decision makers agree - 11. Data Center Consolidation
Absolutely Important: 30% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 35% of decision makers agree - 12. Data Deduplication
Absolutely Important: 27% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 38% of decision makers agree - 13. Private Cloud Computing
Absolutely Important: 23% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 34% of decision makers - 14. Hybrid Cloud Computing
Absolutely Important: 22% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 32% of decision makers agree - 15. Public Cloud Computing
Absolutely Important: 22% of decision makers agree
Somewhat Important: 31% of decision makers agree
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