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Ageing datacentres unable to adopt new technologies, study finds
A worrying number of UK datacentres used for data storage and disaster recovery provisions are too old to successfully implement new technologies, new research has found.
Despite this, businesses are nevertheless still proving to be slow in effectively responding to the situation, with two-thirds of those polled in the study carried out by the Aperture Research Institute admitting that they currently have no plans to build new data centres.
According to the research, around one-third of data centre facilities around the world were built more than four years ago, with the ageing facilities now struggling to cope with high-density blade servers and virtualisation technologies.
As a result, businesses looking to outsource their disaster recovery operations are potentially leaving themselves in danger of losing valuable information.
"The average time required to plan and build a new data centre is typically three or more years, which leads us to a worrying conclusion about the future of data centres and the impact of this lack of foresight," said Steve Yellen, principal of Aperture Research.
"Data centre managers are already facing day-to-day challenges on managing increasingly complex technologies in old facilities,"; he added.
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