Just 29% of data centre decision-makers\nsay their current facilities are meeting their needs, and just 6% say their data\ncentres are updated ahead of their needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those were the findings included in a new\nreport from Forbes Insights\u2019 research: The Modern Date Center: How IT is adapting to new\ntechnologies and hyperconnectivity<\/em>, which examined the results of a\nsurvey of 150 data centre executives and engineers from various industries\naround the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The results indicate a troubling lack of\nplanning and preparation for today\u2019s evolving data ecosystem. A closer\nexamination of the results reveals a stark contrast between executives and\nengineers: 11% of executives say their data centres are updated ahead of\ncurrent needs while just 1% of engineers say the same. \u201cIt is clear, however, that many organisations\nare lagging on that front. With that in mind, we anticipate considerable\ninvestment and activity among businesses trying to catch up and get ahead of\nthe changes.\u201d Pierre Havenga, Managing Director of Vertiv MEA, said: \u201cAcross the Middle East, we are experiencing a drastic increase in demand from customers driven by wholesale requirements as well as uptake to improve efficiency in their existing data centres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn the other hand, in Africa there are two types of data centre needs we experience from customers – the first is legacy data centres with limited white space for expansion \u2013 these customers require Vertiv\u2019s expertise to increase the power density of their racks and drastically improve their efficiencies. The second is green field sites where the trend we\u2019ve seen is towards prefabricated modular solutions seeing as customers prefer the flexibility to scale up operations in line with the exponential demand growth while taking advantage of this solutions ability to optimise their technical skills, infrastructure and funding constraints.\u201d Just 29% of data centre decision-makers say their current facilities are meeting their needs, and just 6% say their data centres are updated ahead of their needs. Those were the findings included in a new report from Forbes Insights\u2019 research: The Modern Date Center: How IT is adapting to new technologies and hyperconnectivity, which examined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":45969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5307,46,4115,3629,54,13,79],"tags":[128,10016,9462,11395,11396,10938],"class_list":["post-45925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-data-centres","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-newsletter","category-research","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-data-centre","tag-forbes-insights","tag-hyperconnectivity","tag-martin-olsen","tag-pierre-havenga","tag-vertiv"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45925"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46036,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions\/46036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u201cAs today\u2019s data centre evolves to incorporate enterprise, cloud and edge\nresources, thorough planning and foresight is needed to meet organisational\ncomputing requirements and business objectives,\u201d said Martin Olsen, Vice President\nof Global Edge Systems for Vertiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nOther notable results from the survey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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