2025 Data Centre & Infrastructure Report
Discover how your IT peers are planning for effective data centre and infrastructure management.
Key findings
To be successful, IT leaders must be ready with resources to meet security demands, leverage AI to increase productivity and optimise budgets to support company goals.
No. 1
Security:
Protect and prepare
Security is a priority, challenge and
driver for most companies. In the face of relentless determination by bad actors, organisations are expanding their no-breach stance to include a more robust post-breach response. It’s essential to increase investment in education, technology solutions, disaster recovery and cyber recovery technologies like immutable storage.
No. 2
Artificial intelligence (AI):
Find and evaluate
AI buzz peaked in 2024; now it’s time
to determine how AI can work for us. IT leaders are evaluating real-life use cases for generative AI (GenAI) while spending more on advanced analytics that employ traditional data science products and methods. Moving forward, companies will be best served by finding opportunities within their operations to generate more benefit than hype.
No. 3
Budget management:
Control and invest
Budget management calls for ongoing cost controls. IT teams must master the basics to consistently rightsize solutions, control licensing and consolidate systems and infrastructure. Assess the internal costs of managing systems against leveraging public and private cloud solutions. By reducing operation’s transactional costs, IT leaders can invest in initiatives such as stronger security, new technology and a skilled workforce to add significant business value.
Priorities and challenges
Targeting 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.
Strengthening security
41%
Reducing IT costs
39%
Improving internal processes
35%
Human capital
CIO outlook for 2025
Budget outlook
Emerging technology
Workload deployment
Data centre maintenance
Infrastructure hardware
Hardware refresh cycles
Managed services
Sustainability
Priorities and challenges
Human capital
CIO outlook for 2025
Budget outlook
Emerging technology
Workload deployment
Data centre maintenance
Infrastructure hardware
Hardware refresh cycles
Managed services
Sustainability
Priorities and challenges
Hardware refresh cycles
Managed services
Sustainability
Human capital
CIO outlook for 2025
Priorities and challenges
Budget outlook
Emerging technology
Workload deployment
Data centre maintenance
Infrastructure hardware
Hardware refresh cycles
Managed services
Sustainability
Human capital
CIO outlook for 2025
Priorities and challenges
Budget outlook
Emerging technology
Workload deployment
Data centre maintenance
Infrastructure hardware
Emerging technology
Workload deployment
Data centre maintenance
Infrastructure hardware
Hardware refresh cycles
Managed services
Sustainability
Human capital
CIO outlook for 2025
Priorities and challenges
Budget outlook
Emerging technology
Workload deployment
Data centre maintenance
Infrastructure hardware
Hardware refresh cycles
Managed services
Sustainability
Human capital
CIO outlook for 2025
Priorities and challenges
Budget outlook
Workload environment
Focusing on workload distribution
The distribution of IT environments shows only incremental shifts to workloads over time. On-prem data centres continue to play a significant role for most organisations.
45%
On-prem data centre
18%
Hosted private cloud
17%
Public cloud
15%
Colocation
5%
Other
2025 Data Centre & Infrastructure Report
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