– John E Dunn, Techworld
January 13, 2012
Global business has been caught off-guard by the recent explosion in data volumes and is trying to cope with short-term fixes such as buying in data centre capacity, research by Oracle has found.
The headline finding of the company’s Next Generation Data Centre Index Cycle II is that between 2010 and 2011 there was a rise from 40 percent to 60 percent in the number of businesses using external data centres.
Polling 950 senior IT personnel across the globe (but excluding the US), Oracle also found that the number of businesses looking to build new data centres within the next two years has risen from 27 percent to 38 percent.
Data centre capacity and data volumes should be expected to go up – this drives data centre capacity building – but the scale of what is happening is still striking.
