 "Datacentre Strategies Clearly Impact Business: Survey")
Wipro Technologies, the Global Consulting, System Integration and Outsourcing Business of Wipro Limited along with Outsourcing Center, an Alsbridge company, have announced the findings of a survey conducted on datacentre optimisation. As the amount of data proliferates across all industries, organisations of all types are challenged with optimising their data center operations. Since data is at the very heart of most businesses, it benefits organisations to develop a strategy to deal with their datacentres.
Outsourcing Center and Wipro conducted a survey that included 75 CIOs and Heads of IT from Fortune 1000 companies across US, Europe and APAC that aimed to determine the current state of organisations’ datacentres as well as explore the attitudes and challenges towards datacentre optimisation. The participants represented a range of industries including retail, financial services, transportation/logistics, manufacturing, healthcare and telecommunications.
The key findings of the survey are:
Datacentre strategies (IT infrastructure, applications, network and facility) clearly impact businesses.
Wipro and Outsourcing Center survey participants seem to agree that a datacentre strategy impacts their organisation’s business. While more than half of participants (53.1 percent) said that they believe a datacentre strategy impacts their business, only a scant 15.6 percent of participants said that such a strategy has no impact on their organisation.
Most organisations operate from multiple datacentres but owned fewer than half of them.
According to the Wipro and Outsourcing Center survey, a majority of organisations currently operate from more than just one or two datacentres. More than two in five participants (41.9 percent) said they operate from three, four or five datacentres. More than 10 percent of participants (12.9 percent) said they operate from more than 20 datacentres. More than half of survey participants (56.2 percent) said that they owned fewer than half of their datacentres.
Most organisations do not know the detailed cost breakdown of each datacentre.
A whopping 71.9 percent - nearly three-fourths - of all survey participants reported that they do not know the detailed cost breakdown of each datacentre. And most organisations only know a portion of their datacentre costs-not the whole cost picture.
Fewer than half of organisations have adopted alternative models for datacentre management.
The participants in the Wipro and Outsourcing Center survey were about evenly split on their adoption of alternative models for datacentre management, although slightly fewer (46.9 percent) said they have not yet adopted these models to manage their datacentres.
Lack of measurable return-on-investment is holding organisations back from moving to alternate datacentre management models.
A majority of participants in the Wipro and Outsourcing Center survey cited lack of measurable ROI as a challenge they face in moving to alternative data management models. However, since organisations don’t know their costs, they can’t really gauge how, or whether or not, the alternative models are benefitting them in terms of cost. The cost of such an initiative and lack of necessary budget was identified by 22.6 percent of participants.
The survey also points out new approaches to the datacentre can provide organisations of all types with myriad benefits. By standardising, consolidating, virtualising and automating processes, organisations can transform their datacentres to be lean and energy efficient. Transforming the datacentre can enable growth, minimise risk, increase speed and agility, and lead to dramatic cost reductions.