Data center bloat continues

As data centers get more complex, executives are turning to technologies and processes like ITIL, storage capacity management and virtualization to consolidate and simplify their environments, according to a new study conducted by Symantec. The study, a result of interviews with 500 IT professionals worldwide, notes that the most common complaints among those surveyed stem from frustrations with rising numbers of servers and applications, the need to learn and implement more management tools and the hassles associated with managing multiple operating systems. Almost everyone interviewed said they would focus on consolidating data centers in the next year.

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