New Data Center Survey Results

Great survey to read through that was conducted by TechTarget’s SearchDataCenter.com called “Data Center construction is booming”

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Conducted in May 2007, the study found that over the next 24 months, more than 80% of U.S. companies plan to expand their data centers.

The desire to consolidate has led the overwhelming majority of those planning new data centers to include server virtualization in their plans. But in general, new data centers will be technologically different from their predecessors.

Respondents plan to implement a host of new technologies in their new data centers (see Table 1). More than 85% plan to implement server virtualization.

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Bottom line, more fuel for the data center automation fires!