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Results of the 2016 Data
Centre Industry Survey by
Uptime Institute
U
ptime Institute has announced
the results of the 2016 Uptime
Institute Data Centre Industry
Survey. The sixth annual survey provides
an overview of the major trends shaping
IT infrastructure delivery and strategy.
According to survey findings, 50% of
senior enterprise IT executives expect
the majority of IT workloads to reside
off-premise in cloud or colocation sites
in the future. Of those respondents 70%
expect that shift to occur by 2020, and
23% expect the shift will happen by
next year.
“The shift is occurring, and our findings
show an industry in a state of flux,” said
Matt Stansberry, Director of Content
and Publications for Uptime Institute.
“We saw the trends lining up beginning
with our 2013 survey, noting that
enterprise IT teams were not effectively
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communicating data centre cost and
performance metrics to their C-level
executives. The business demand
for agility and cost transparency has
driven workloads to the public cloud.
Our counsel to data centre and IT
professionals is to become more
effective at articulating and showcasing
their value to the business.”
Uptime Institute Survey findings since
2013 have shown that the majority of
respondents report some percentage of
their IT portfolio resides outside of their
enterprise-owned data centres, either in
the cloud or some form of off-premise
computing. But the annual Data Centre
Industry Survey takes the pulse of the
legacy, on-premise enterprise IT and
data centre operations teams, many of
which are not motivated or inclined to
move to cloud.
Previous results likely underrepresented
the shift to cloud computing, as
business units deployed in the cloud
without IT Operations or Data Centre
personnel involvement. IT as a whole
needs to move away from its current
role as a slow-moving centralised
provider, and instead direct corporate
governance across the various business
lines – evaluating security, costs, and
performance of IT for the business.
Additionally, legacy enterprise IT groups
need to develop clearer messages to the
business to articulate their value and
efficacy.
Enterprise related findings
include:
• Many legacy enterprise IT
departments are shrinking, due
to budget pressures, IT hardware
advances and the outsourcing of
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