November 1 reported a recent international survey, the server virtualization technology and consolidation will help the system administrator to resolve the increasing load, decreasing the budget problem.
Symantec to manufacturers display the data center's challenge is tough internal service level agreements, ongoing data center expansion, staff problems. Two-thirds of respondents said their organizations exist within a formal service level agreements, 51% of the respondents admitted that in the past two years, they meet these requirements more difficult.
More than two-thirds (69%) of respondents said their data center, at least a year increased 5%, 11% of the respondents claimed that more than 20% growth rate. But in recent years, the average growth rate of only 7% of the budget, taking into account the inflation factor, which means that in the past 5 years, data center budget growth rate is very low.
According to the report, server virtualization technology and consolidation are the two most important aspects of management costs. At least 90% of the respondents to discuss server virtualization technology, 50% of the respondents in the deployment of this technology, the server merge the figures are lower.
Survey, data center staff problem is "widespread." 9 percent of the data center manager, said finding qualified job applicants that they are too difficult.