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Home Resources 2025 Data Center & Infrastructure Report: Education Spotlight

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2025 Data Center & Infrastructure Report: Education Spotlight

See what IT professionals in the education sector are planning for in 2025.

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47%

of respondents ranked strengthening security as a top priority

Cyber threats and attacks are relentless. It’s essential for organizations to increase investment in education, technology solutions, disaster recovery and cyber recover technologies like immutable storage.

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Data center maintenance

Budget and service quality drive maintenance decisions

Key influences guiding data center maintenance support are:

63%

Price

46%

Engineer knowledge & skill

40%

Customer experience

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Budget Outlook

53%

of respondents chose extending equipment life as their top cost-saving measure

Longer server, storage and networking equipment life cycles help reduce CapEx spending.

Budget Outlook

Implementing strategies to maximize the IT budget

A hybrid approach focuses on leveraging current data center hardware investments and taps into the agility of cloud offerings.

Upgrade existing hardware

69%

Cloud migration

60%

Extend use of equipment beyond end of life (EOL)

58%

Utilize third-party maintenance (TPM)

38%

Colocation

18%

Workload Deployment

Diversity within workload environments

Current distributions reflect a strategic blend of innovation, security and scalability:

52%

On-prem data center

18%

Public cloud

17%

Hosted private cloud

9%

Colocation

4%

Other

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Sustainability

64%

of respondents chose extending equipment life as their top sustainability measure

Longer server, storage and networking equipment life cycles help reduce CapEx spending.

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Survey respondents

We shared responses from 157 IT professionals in education who completed our annual Data Center & Infrastructure Survey.

Participants by institution:

33%

Higher Ed Private Education

31%

K-12 Public Education

29%

Higher Ed Public Education

6%

Other

1%

K-12 Private Education

Source: Education responses collected from an online Data Center & Infrastructure Survey conducted by Service Express.

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