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(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 29, 2010 ) Hong Kong, 29 January, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released the findings of its 2010 State of the Data Center study. Now in its third year, the study found that improving service levels, increasing availability and improving responsiveness of their data centers, while reducing costs is top of mind for data center managers in China for 2010. They also cited security, backup and recovery and continuous data protection as the most important data center initiatives to focus on in 2010.
Reducing costs still remains a primary objective for data center managers, with 85 percent of Chinese enterprises rating it somewhat or absolutely important. However, at the same time, they are still placing importance on improving the performance of their data centers to meet customersÂ’ high expectations. Improving service levels, increasing availability and improving responsiveness were all considered important by Chinese enterprises, with forty-six percent, forty-five percent and forty-seven percent, respectively, rating them as absolutely important.
“Despite the improved global economic outlook for the year, the study shows enterprises are continuing to focus their attention on reducing costs without reducing the quality of service,” said Bernard Kwok, Symantec's senior vice president for Asia Pacific and Japan. “The key to bridging this gap is to optimize the data center by utilizing new technologies, which will offer immediate value and return on investment, as well as cost savings.”
Key initiatives being pursued in China data centers for 2010 include security, backup and recovery and continuous data protection. Sixty-one percent rated security as absolutely important. Forty-three percent rated backup and recovery as absolutely important and forty-one percent of data centre managers said continuous data protection was one of their top concerns.
Global Study Highlights:
The study is based on surveys of 1,780 data center managers in 26 countries in November 2009.
Mid-sized enterprises are more aggressive and pioneering than either small or large enterprises. They are adopting new technology initiatives such as cloud computing, replication, and deduplication at 11-17 percent higher rates than small or large enterprises.
Top data center concerns include increased complexity and too many applications. Most enterprises have 10 or more data center initiatives rated as somewhat or absolutely important and 50 percent expect “significant” changes to their data centers in 2010. Half of all enterprises say applications are growing somewhat/quickly and half are finding it difficult and costly to meet service level agreements (SLAs). One-third of all enterprises say staff productivity is hampered by too many applications. Adding to the complexity is the continued increase in data causing 71 percent of organizations to consider data reduction technologies such as deduplication.
Security, backup and recovery, and continuous data protection are the most important initiatives in 2010, ahead of virtualization. Eighty-three percent of enterprises rated security somewhat or absolutely important. Seventy-nine percent said backup and recovery is somewhat/absolutely important and 76 percent rated continuous data protection as one of their top initiatives.
Staffing and budgets remain tight with half of all enterprises reporting they are somewhat/extremely understaffed. Finding budget and qualified applicants are the biggest recruiting issues. Seventy-six percent of enterprises have the same or more job requisitions open this year.
There continues to be room for improvement in disaster recovery. One-third of disaster recovery plans are undocumented or need work and important IT components, such as cloud computing, remote office and virtual servers are often not included. Compounding the issue, almost one-third of enterprises havenÂ’t re-evaluated their disaster recovery plan in the last 12 months.
Virtual machine protection continues to be a focus for enterprises, with 82 percent of enterprises considering virtual-machine technologies in 2010. Respondents cited granular recovery within virtual machine images as the biggest challenge in virtual machine data protection.
Recommendations
Software that supports heterogeneous environments and eliminates islands of information is particularly important for mid-sized enterprises that are aggressively adopting new technologies because they can reduce complexity in the data center.
Organizations should deploy deduplication closer to the information source to eliminate redundant data and reduce storage and network costs.
Data center administrators need to manage storage across heterogeneous server and storage environments in a way that enables them to stop buying storage by leveraging new technology adoption such as storage resource management, thin provisioning, deduplication, storage virtualization and continuous data protection and recovery. Organizations leveraging a holistic approach to storage management can control storage budget growth and often postpone storage purchases.
Disaster recovery testing is invaluable, but can significantly impact business. Enterprises should seek to improve the success of testing by evaluating and implementing testing methods which are non-disruptive.
Organizations should deploy a single, unified platform for physical and virtual machine protection to simplify information management.
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Resources
Find additional materials in the 2010 Symantec State of the Data Center Online Press Kit
Watch the 2010 Symantec State of the Data Center Video on YouTube
View the 2010 Symantec State of the Data Center Study
Access the 2010 Symantec State of the Data Center presentation on Slideshare.net
View last yearÂ’s Symantec State of the Data Center Study
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