Data center managers look for relief

Data center managers are looking for a better year in 2010--one that brings more money and technologies that help them improve their bottom line.

"They're hoping to see budgets again in 2010," Roger Kay, an analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates, tells eWeek.com. "Some dough is what they'd like. They're all for refreshing clients now that [Microsoft's Windows 7] is here, and generally shortening the average system life, but [they] have been severely constrained this year."

Bob Gill, an analyst with TheInfoPro, said that in surveys of IT executives, he's finding the same thing. They need money. "Money is an issue," Gill said. "People are saying, 'I want my budget back.'"

It's likely that data centers will still have to do more with less. A Gartner study found that more than 50 percent of CIOs expect their budgets to remain flat or to decline. If data managers cannot get more money, eWeek.com reports they want products such as virtualization and cloud computing to help them do their jobs better.

But the bottom line for data center managers is this: Help is on the way. Be ready to loosen your belt as the economy improves and more services are needed.

For more on the state of data centers:
- see this eWeek.com article

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