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90% of Data Centers Are Not Fully Optimized: IDG SurveyFewer than 10% of IT executives today consider their companies' data centers and operations to be fully optimized for efficiency and cost-effectiveness, according to a new IDG Research Services survey conducted on behalf of Datalink (Nasdaq: DTLK). Challenges identified in the survey - Data Centers in Flux: The IT Optimization Challenge - include addressing the demands of rapid data growth, the effort required to assess new technology choices, balancing day-to-day operational responsibilities with the need to innovate, and lack of alignment between internal IT skill sets and new operational needs. The survey of IT leaders in organizations with an average of 25,000 employees also revealed difficulties in making on- and off-premise platform decisions to manage growing workloads, an emerging shift in the use of the public cloud and outsourced service providers, technology investment priorities over the next 12 months, and other trends related to efforts to increase IT operational efficiency. Key findings showed that:
"Most IT organizations today are overwhelmed by the need to keep up with new technologies and an increasing number of applications, balance day-to-day operations with new IT initiatives, and simply do what they need to do to improve the way they manage workloads. The result, as this survey shows, is that they aren't operating at peak efficiency or able to take advantage of opportunities to close the data center optimization gap between current and desired state," said Datalink President and CEO Paul Lidsky (News - Alert). "Modernizing and streamlining the data center is imperative for IT departments in order to deliver the agility and flexibility required by their businesses, both today and in the future." The complete survey is available at www.datalink.com/IDG-Survey-DC. About Datalink Datalink is a complete IT services and solutions provider that helps companies transform their technology, operations, and service delivery to meet business challenges. Combining extensive experience, a full lifecycle of services and a comprehensive approach to producing IT innovations that empower positive business outcomes, Datalink delivers success across cloud IT transformation, next generation technology, and security. For more information, call 800.448.6314 or visit www.datalink.com.
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