Data centres 'nearing capacity'

Data centres 'nearing capacity' Most data centres are near capacity but the majority of business units do not understand the importance of them, research has found.

Research commissioned by Hewlett Packard, entitled the Data Center Transformation Survey, found most facilities are near capacity and have little or no spare room.

The survey of 1,020 chief information officers (CIOs) found the average data centre is operating at 82 per cent of its limit, including energy and cooling capacities.

However, over 70 per cent of CIOs said the business unit did not understand the important role of the data centre in the company, despite six in ten planning on investing in them further.

Which data centre to opt for was also a problem for over half of businesses, which said they struggle with the conflict of low cost and efficiency and flexibility.

Reinier van Hoeijen, director of datacentre transformation services at HP, says: "Managed correctly, data centre transformation can reduce costs whilst enabling increased flexibility and efficiency and creating better alignment between technology and the business."

Recent research taken at DatacenterDynamicsLondon:08 found investment in new data centres will be more than double the equivalent spent on re-fitting current services in the 2008-09 period.

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