Bigger Data Center
Ante Up
36% of data center operators are seeing data-center budgets growing more than 10%.
Storage Expansion
Two-thirds of data-center operations have increased capacity by at least 1,000 kW during the last five years, and 17% have increased capacity by more than 10,000 kW.
Top “Very Important” Considerations for Data Center Expansions
Reliability: 66%, Up-front costs: 50%, Long-term costs and TCO: 47%, Energy efficiency: 33%, Speed of delivery: 22%
Peak Efficiency
Two-thirds of respondents report that no more than 5% of their servers are “comatose,” meaning they’re inactive and can be shut down and removed from the data center.
Energy Conscious
57% respondents say reducing data-center energy consumption is “very important.”
On the Watch, Part I
76% of data centers have real-time environmental monitoring and alarming within an aggregated hall, or site-wide.
On the Watch, Part II
57% have power monitoring at the device or circuit level.
Review Sessions
55% have trending and analysis of historical operational data.
Allocated Resources
44% conduct capacity planning for power, cooling and space.
See No Evil …
More than one-third of data-center operations do not measure power usage effectiveness.
Hear No Evil …
Nearly 40% of enterprise data-center operations do not schedule any reporting to the C-Suite.
Deploying Public Clouds
49% of data-center operations are either currently deploying or plan on deploying some form of public-cloud models.
Top Cloud Adoption Barriers
Security: 45%, Skills: 13%, Cost: 7%
