A recent comprehensive study conducted by Applied Research West shows that despite a struggling economy, many businesses plan to increase their data center investments by an average of 10 percent over the next two years. Interesting points in the survey include the fact that businesses will be looking externally to improve their data center and how and why organizations leverage various services offerings to keep the lights on within their data centers.
On a down note, while respondents are planning to amp up their data center investments, those budget increases still aren’t enough to keep their data centers competently staffed and able to handle increased complexity.
Survey results show that 50 percent of respondents report that they are extremely to somewhat understaffed across the data center. Approximately 40 percent say that finding budget to appropriately staff their centers is a big or huge problem, 39 percent say the same about finding qualified applicants, 32 percent say it's a big or huge problem training existing employees and 28 percent say 'ditto' about retaining employees.
Many organizations are taking advantage of numerous service offerings from the channel to keep up with the struggle: more than half take advantage of outside consultants, over two-fifths of organizations take advantage of managed service providers and nearly the same amount lean on outsourcing vendors to completely outsource one or more functions within the data center.
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