Symantec Announces Findings of State of the Data Center Research

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Data center managers adopt virtualization, server consolidation; face skills shortage.

Symantec Corp., a provider of infrastructure software, today announced the findings of its worldwide State of the Data Center Research report, revealing that data center managers are implementing virtualization and server consolidation strategies to manage the growing complexities in today's data center. Symantec's report suggests data center managers are facing complicated challenges resulting from rapidly rising Service Level Agreements (SLAs), staffing difficulties, increasing expenditures and data center growth.

Pervasive Challenges: Service Level Agreements, Staffing and Growth

Budget growth is not keeping pace with data center growth, while stringent SLAs mean data centers must deliver ever-increasing levels of speed, agility and availability. While increased SLAs may indicate the value IT can deliver to the business, if they are unmet the performanc -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --