Building, Planning, and Operating the Next-Generation Datacenter

This IDC Insight provides an overview of the challenges that IT organizations face today with the ongoing operations of their datacenters. This Insight provides an overview of how organizational business models are driving higher rates of IT adoption and the implications this has on the maintenance costs of the datacenter. IDC believes that a true datacenter transformation is taking place and that IT organizations will continue to consolidate the number of sites and number of supported systems and will increasingly place greater emphasis on energy efficiency, and this will consequently have a great impact on the operations and economics for the datacenter of the future. All of these changes are driving customers to consider a full set of datacenter services, including traditional consolidation services, datacenter planning, design and construction services, and thermal assessment services.