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Now in its third year, the study found that mid-sized enterprises are more likely to adopt innovative technologies such as cloud computing, deduplication, replication, storage virtualization, and continuous data protection than small or large enterprises to reduce IT costs and manage increasing complexity.
Mid-sized enterprise data centers show more activity, with more IT managers predicting major changes to the data center and new applications in 2010.
Perhaps the most compelling finding in the study is that mid-sized enterprises place a higher importance on staffing and training than their small or large enterprise counterparts.
Sixteen percent of survey respondents said their data centers are significantly understaffed, while 34 percent of respondents said that their data centers somewhat understaffed.
Meanwhile, data centers are becoming more complex and difficult to manage, with more applications, data and increasingly demanding service-level agreements.
"Although mid-sized enterprises tend to evaluate and adopt new technologies at a faster rate than larger organizations, they still face similar data center complexities that are compounded by adopting new initiatives," says Deepak Mohan, senior vice president of information management group at Symantec. "Standardizing on cross-platform solutions that can manage new technologies and automate processes will drive immediate cost reduction and make their jobs easier in the long run."
Other findings show that some of the top data center concerns include increased complexity and too many applications.
Security, backup and recovery, and continuous data protection are the most important initiatives in 2010, ahead of virtualization.
In fact, 83 percent of enterprises rated security somewhat or absolutely important, 79 percent said backup and recovery is somewhat/absolutely important and 76 percent rated continuous data protection as one of their top initiatives.
Contributing to the lack of staffing, respondents said that 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.
The full report can be downloaded as a PDF file here.
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