title: CIO Alert: You Should Have Planned Ahead link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/cio-alert-you-should-have-planned-ahead/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 624 created: 2007/10/05 14:34:28 created_gmt: 2007/10/05 14:34:28 comment_status: open post_name: cio-alert-you-should-have-planned-ahead status: publish post_type: post

CIO Alert: You Should Have Planned Ahead

Gartner, prognosticator of the obvious for the not-so-intuitive, gets a headine on El Reg:

Gartner: no relief for data center costs

The blunt truth is that global data centers, especially those in the U.S., are going to face escalating power costs and shrinking space to accomodate all the new equipment they’ll need to meet ongoing demand for more and more functionality from their corporate masters (not to mention license fee generating gimmicks like vendor re-packaging that forces further server proliferation). The problem? They’re not ready. Not by a long-shot.

From the article:

Gartner thinks more than 70 per cent of Global 1000 businesses will need to significantly modify their data center facilities during the next five years. The US will presumably take the biggest hit as it has the most large data centers (< 50,000 square feet), with the majority built more than seven years ago.

Here’s the kicker. There really is only one way out, remote hosting. After years of living fat and happy off their bonii and forcing their “individual contributors” to make due with aging proprietary facilities, IT managers are now being told by their industry’s equivalent to the Delphic oracle that it might be time to start looking at hosting out their infrastructure.

Gartner gives a plug for leasing data center space sooner, rather than later - it says the market is already supply constrained and a continued push will result in rapid cost increases.

Which, by the way, was the problem in the first place.

Another way of saying, it’s too late. You’re screwed. Have a nice day!

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