|
|
|

Survey: Data Center Budgets Will Stay Pretty Much the Same in 2009
By: Chris Preimesberger
2008-12-23
Article Rating:    / 6
There are 2 user comments on this Data Storage, Data Backup and Storage Virtualization story.
Survey: Data Center Budgets Will Stay Pretty Much the Same in 2009 (
Page 1 of 2 ) AFCOM survey indicates that nearly two-thirds of managers of large data centers will maintain or increase their budgets in 2009, despite the deepening recession. The remaining one-third will lose about 15 percent of their budgets, with much of the reduction involving travel and training expenses.A noted data center industry association reported Dec. 23 in a survey of IT
managers that nearly two-thirds will see their IT budgets stay the same or even
increase in 2009, and that the remaining one-third will lose only about 15
percent of their budgets.
That ought to serve as some relatively good news in this downtrodden
macroeconomy.
Of the cuts that will be made in data center budgets in 2009, only about 14
percent of the already small percentage of cuts will involve staff layoffs,
AFCOM reported.
More than halfabout
53 percentof
the cuts will entail staff travel and education expenses, which is not good
news for the conference business. However, 38 percent of the cuts
will affect IT and support equipment purchases, including servers, switches,
power and cooling, and other hardware.
The survey was taken last month by AFCOM, which bills itself as the
"largest industry association for data center management in the
world."
The Orange, Calif.-based association, which includes all the major IT hardware,
networking and facilities providers, has staged two Data Center World
conferences per year in the United States
since 1981. It also publishes Data Center
magazine.
Virtualization: A Key Contributor to Budgets in 2009
Another of the highlights of this research: 86 percent of the survey's
respondents believe that the increased use of virtualization will reduce the
need for new physical servers in 2009.
That's not great news for the server makers, although it's hardly a surprise to
them.
"This [high percentage] may not seem all that surprising, considering that
virtualization really went big time into data center production use in
2008," said Jill Eckhaus, CEO of AFCOM.
"But [the high 86 percent number] is a bit surprising to me because,
although AFCOM has been putting virtualization into all our education for our
members, it didn't seem as if they were all that interested at first.
"But now they are. For the people who have to cut their budgets, one of
the big things they're cutting is equipment, so virtualization can really help
them in making a more efficient data center."
|
|
x}ks"v
s`qQ6
ݜ1
P㢪NUa;b?q3%ՋG鳷6TT*3JRo^ȅkBhnR٣G.3轗%T{歯ZFUevGԭeR}>uӘX̐Z>u3u q@n}ϣXɛD%x_@jO UG.Rc2kZ1ֲ1'ԓ7&8[gp,F5"8z@'A:2/LZP8&PKE!@<4FU78>-_/T|l߷gLw'ž=a>&%k4E xL>vn5[zVn;B
08oaT ˑ98&MM[Vek햡#l< 2ș}5o[wo_FT2퉝͙dLI%UH&IEp/z:Q?D9zui08Rij%lf]C7[G]c:.S/bARxfhREiHo*!1lV=XGz>4ҽ)/vu߰[dq-˲>ʍ9hC,CVQj\()Nr7}50p*О֚7?ڽPJ)Q{p!>Lݺ6жNky:t;=rԼx+7rHǂ
|+[oL'0Q&*R>_ř|a|:ZdZ^XuFFI/l|%rT8kV
K:s(2 1,!'3Ҽ5[&5O?\>ߘekfy3岦?BJ{3F~3[:nn9nZg.9\iٞt4ڟ-O?ZU?{_C$w@0
ϖ*⑤f!3|9}jo]}띑_>[B7ey!s;{ReQcoF(Úy >%"-CN'Y^m
o4!`F}ܸeNR49Vˠ蟩$Wm4@r-XSl RNR8z@@Z\~nV )USEE7#DH vQ"ȅQ.%u.
g|8JKu3b=ƈs}zY^5'tayEוi#wYÞ\zmMFut:~j7&LqJXx7Y`I-e`\\Է7r(2wRJ /*GR-x Qnx2d8,0>c}n9sY`HkgQ9U|>#c>
tˊ=
DC# mx=Z.h`CZ= &
Ѐ/4حM%_ bD=x39v&ztH۠h&]IO,
ϛ̀s%08{ɝ5Qn@X^0 j5rHp yE]}23<`t &|H }p]x9-RC/1@]JI^F"D% P
h4Af'E|ENNA7%w$]q+XdD0nOu$]ڹLX,$QY,p[/1͙Jda8[LboK7],Slo3-muk{PPvT*{14` {@ZWgޓaH`0LD%\Ew,fkzn0-ϑmQ@la} /<qa Sn6(93,X0NᔄWj->!2i}M/{rgxK;-b[0sk2'yvv=.У\0ħ?iy>grG6
o E jJ=Us A|5i!SL&Zeon<Gy5&+*\=P:Ԕ2/%kb*q(u}ãOEۋ)q
3X-8G4W- ŇeSZqlzQnD/KƠX<Vu bP_$)&ۊxA-ژ
WZD"JMP0kezhxE6*CGqnQym1쳧k]0Wepd4v*EMثX3ld tAqFA2`AE}a&$
ë=mOmu\<$7Sgsmolr
>]QȺ A(JqЧI۰>v&ƀI4(%$mwfK
ĖAϗ~ܣnkT*߉kh@4e2ff4_l0-xoJD%xWR'?CU^ocx,"r%#jSC+j\-r73x&9ͽܘc ϡCc)N_Ι:nzٰojQQPz5gn&WqGש%XTXe1 axq+ #t4%*'L-02\:FNNᗬ{)
"3=m )e&zo<ɺI'_ȑ!Yd:@ݐ+!,n
w]0r AG5萰!L`?% +
#m6qJcgԻE u>t.aOS)ĵV(tu< `_{nM]=WC$*XwC揙 4i
0X[⚪*y}2筳{oJ.4F(dyDG/=qbk
NM|8ʳ |