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Symantec State of the Data Center Report 2007

Symantec

Today’s data centers are becoming more complex and are likely to be come even more so in the next five years. Increasingly, businesses are demanding higher application availability and the rapid integration of new technologies . At the same time, the amount of data generated by datcenter applications is exploding and much of it must be protected , as per new privacy and government regulations , and retained for longer periods o f time.
Welcome to the life of data center managers. They are being asked to do more with relatively modest
budget increases. Qualified staff is harder to find. And the business side of the organization is asking
that applications be deployed in much faster timeframes.The purpose of this study is to gauge the true state of today’s data center, including the issues data center managers face and how they are dealing with them.
The study found that roughly two-thirds of data center managers said their data centers are becoming
too complex to manage easily. If dealing with this complexity was not enough, more than half of the
data center managers surveyed said internal service-level-agreement (SLA) demands are increasing.

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