Do IT Teams Do Enough to Prevent Problems?

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Do IT Teams Do Enough to Prevent Problems?

Do IT Teams Do Enough to Prevent Problems?Do IT Teams Do Enough to Prevent Problems?

Tech teams contend with at least a half-dozen unexpected issues per week that could be avoided with better planning and automation.

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56% of organizations are operating in a chaotic state when it comes to IT service delivery.

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Tech departments deal with an average of six unexpected IT issues a week.

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Each of these issues takes three hours and 16 minutes to mitigate, involving the efforts of eight IT staffers.

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Two-thirds of IT managers said their organization has experienced a cloud outage, indicating that these outages could have been avoided. Nearly three of five said the outages are due to improper IT health and risk management.

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97% said their department’s efficiency could be better.

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61% said efficiency would be improved through better IT optimization, and the same percentage said server consolidation to reduce infrastructure administration workload would help.

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55% said more or better diagnosis, trending or analytics tools would boost IT efficiency, while 54% said more focus is needed on the company’s reactive processes.

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IT managers said their staff spends just 10% of its time on proactive, improvement activities, such as application tuning, server tuning, data management and IT risk avoidance.

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Only 17% said their company is able to optimize IT operations through proactive, automated actions.

Top Perceived Benefits of Proper IT OptimizationTop Perceived Benefits of Proper IT Optimization

Improved IT efficiency: 90%, Increased business productivity: 86%, Increased workforce productivity: 86%, Cost savings: 85%, Implementation of consolidation and virtualization projects: 83%

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