How to Cope With Ever-Expanding Data Center Demand
More than one-half of CIOs and other survey respondents said their companies have expanded their data center capacity over the past five years, and 69% anticipate doing so over the next five years.
63% of those surveyed feel that the strong growth of data center demand will last for at least 10 years, with 37% saying it will last more than 10 years.
Dealing with expense management/tight budgets: 25%, Planning for the future: 17%, Discerning true requirements: 8%, Being restricted by limited capital: 8%
Not considering/not planning for the future: 18%, Lack of planning for accurate capacity: 15%, Choosing inappropriate airflow/cooling system: 10%
64% of survey respondents said they own and manage all or most of their data center operations in-house.
37% said they struggle to determine how much capacity is needed when planning a data center expansion, and 20% said it’s difficult to decide whether to build, renovate or lease.
31% said they’ll lease data center capacity to avoid or defer capital expenditures, and the same percentage said they’ll do so to decrease their risk. An additional 23% said they seek better speed to market by leasing.
Build: 47%, Renovate: 28%, Lease: 26%
Survey respondents predicted that IT providers will own 42% of the nation’s servers 10 years from now, and real estate solution providers will own 31%.