Will managed hosting providers run out of capacity by 2012?
Current research indicates that firms are planning major extensions to their current server footprint within the next two years.
According to a report from Computerworld, a number of recent surveys that suggest that companies will either physically expand their datacentres or will lease new space elsewhere.
The plans are a recognition of the strains that current facilities are under, in terms of both hardware and the manpower needed to manage it, it added.
One survey, from the Uptime Institute polled 525 datacentre operators and found that a third of them were already worried that they would run out of power, cooling, and space by the end of 2012.
Forty percent of firms plan allocate budgets to building their own facilities while twenty nine percent will opt to work with a colocation hosting provider, and twenty percent opt for cloud hosting.
Another survey, from datacentre manager organisation Afcom, found similar responses in a study of 360 members.
Here twenty nine percent were already expanding their server footprint, while twenty one percent have plans to do so in the future.
Commenting on the findings, Tad Davies, executive vice president of Bick Group, which designs and builds datacentres. said that some firms had gone as far as they could with their current datacentres – and their use of server tools such as virtualisation.
“There’s not much more they can get there, so it’s back to expansion,” he added.
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