Data center growth constrained

A new survey of CIOs reveals that one-third of enterprise data centers won't be big enough to handle the increasing amount of data that is being generated, according to Hewlett Packard. HP disclosed the results of the private survey recently, which spells out a series of challenges in the next two to five years. The survey reported that many of these CIOs believed they would not be able to find the electricity, cooling capacity, space or budgets that they will need for centers that are expanding at a remarkable rate. "The average data center can't do that," said HP's Deb Nelson, senior VP of alliances, Technology Solutions Group. Of course, the survey results should be taken with a grain of salt, considering that HP is the largest vendor of servers and data center hardware.

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