Noteworthy
Gartner, IDC
Costs
Capital costs have been contained, but, operational costs keep increasing with applications and servers.
Over the last ten years, the data center has changed dramatically. Every year, the number of applications and the amount of servers keep growing. Corporations try improving on process and buying best of breed point solutions to handle the problem.
System administrators are still being asked to work on weekends and nights and are still writing scripts.
Audits are being failed due to lack of accuracy. Virtualization cuts cost but complexity keeps rising. IT organizations are touting 100+ to 1 server to admin ratios yet work is not getting done.
Security vulnerabilities are higher than ever and there are a large number of servers in the data center that aren&rsquo t being patched.
IT staffs are still fighting fires reactively; there&rsquo s no global visibility and the number of servers and virtual servers are still rising... and the data center is more complex than ever.
Datacenters are more complex
- Annual increase in servers & applications.
- High rate of change.
- IT organization fragmented by OS.
Vulnerabilities are increasing
- Root access not controlled.
- Inconsistencies & misconfigurations = vulnerabilities.
- Reduced staff = less time to get job done.
Service levels jeopardized
- Manual intervention slow to respond.
- Misconfigurations cause downtime.
- Respond to business vs Control Change.