Power, Space & Cooling Capacity Emerging as Barriers to Datacenter Innovation

Datacenter Barriers An IDC Infographic, sponsored by CA Technologies Issues in Power, Space, Cooling, and Uptime Impede Innovation 84% of datacenters had issues with power, space and cooling capacity, assets, and uptime that negatively impacted business operations ..Consequences to the Business 31% 27% 26% Delay in application rollouts Disrupted ability to provide service to customers Forced to spend unplanned OPEX budget Need to roll back an application deployment Three Commonly-Cited Reasons Things Go Wrong in the Datacenter Inconsistent Datacenter Information 63% of datacenters do not have a standard set of management tools Divided Datacenter Operations 2 Responsibility for a wide range of operations is split between IT, Facilities, and other groups 58% of Enterprises have IT and Facilities living in separate organizations Inconsistent Datacenter Maturity Businesses have datacenters with varying maturity levels [sab) v.2 Logged in host:-rootS of datacenter managers consider their datacenters 51%0 to be inefficient or only moderately efficient Breaking the Barriers: Unified Management with DCIM 92% of Datacenter Managers Prefer an Integrated Datacenter Management Approach Want point solutions for tactical goals only 8% 42% Would start with point solution that can expand 50% with needs Would implement extensive DCIM that covers all| datacenter needs Functionality Desired by 7 out of 10 Managers in a Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Solution 70.7% Real-time monitoring of aspects including power and temperature 70.5% Alerts and alarms for power and cooling 70.1% Inventory and asset management 69.1% Capacity analysis and planning IDC All IDC research is © 2012 by IDC. All rights reserved. All IDC materials are licensed with IDC's permission and in no way does the use or publication of IDC research indicate IDC's endorsement of CA Technologies's products/or strategies. Analyze the Future Content Adapted From: IDC Global DCIM Survey, 2012