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2024 Data Center & Infrastructure Report
Discover how and why your IT peers are taking actions and making plans for effective data center and infrastructure management.
Priorities and challenges
Budget outlook
Workload deployment
Infrastructure hardware
Data center maintenance
Managed services
Sustainability
Human capital
Priorities and challenges
Budget outlook
Workload deployment
Infrastructure hardware
Data center maintenance
Managed services
Sustainability
Human capital
As a global data center and infrastructure solutions company, we’re interested in how organizations manage their data centers and infrastructure worldwide. Explore the responses and expert insights shared in our clear and concise annual report.
Key findings
To be successful, IT leaders must maximize budgets, implement balanced hybrid workloads and work to meet future environmental standards.
#1
Master your budget management expertise
Despite ongoing budgetary constraints, IT leaders are expected to deliver more services every year. This expectation poses major challenges as complexity increases for staffing demands, infrastructure investments and cloud costs.
#2
Find the right balance in your hybrid deployment strategy
As IT leaders draw on more firsthand hybrid experience, they’re reevaluating where to house workloads, where to achieve the best performance and how to implement the most cost-efficient environment.
#3
Act on the growing commitment to sustainability
The impact of data center and infrastructure sustainability is directing more IT decisions toward alignment with business needs, corporate responsibility and environmental goals.
Priorities and challenges
Focusing on top priorities
The leading priorities for IT teams have remained consistent over the past five years. Implementing automation can streamline processes to free up employee resources and IT budgets. Direct the savings gained toward security efforts and employee initiatives.
Top priority
Strengthening
security
45%
Strengthening security
45%
Improving internal processes
35%
Developing IT team members
34%
Reducing IT Costs
34%
See all responses in the full report.
Budget outlook
Saving IT dollars
Longer equipment life is helping companies stretch IT budgets. Teams are also consolidating workloads and exploring hybrid, public and private cloud solutions to reduce spending.
Top measure
Extending
equipment life
48%
See all responses in the full report.
2024 Data Center & Infrastructure Report
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