data centre purchasing drivers, priorities, and barriers of mid-market firms
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It’s no secret that the increase of digital channel interaction between firms and their customers has had an impact on their IT business strategies. Survey results indicate that this digital interaction will accelerate growth in both internal and external IT resources, and consequently increase demand for data centre solutions. What are the main drivers, priorities and barriers that influence data centre purchasing decisions for European companies?TRANSCRIPT
Q3:
What are the main barriers during the decision-making of data centre outsourcing in your company?
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Applicationproliferation
Regulatory or compliancerequirements
Redundancy / resiliency
Consolidation
Business continuity
Big data
Virtualisation
Business growth
Storage growth
Global footprint of data centre provider/ multisite availability
Access to cloud, managed service providers, or other partners
Energy efficiency of the data centre facility
Risk profile of the data centre location
Level of control over data centre facility
Cost of energy at the data centre location
Resiliency level and availability of the data centre facility
Network connectivity options/carrier availability/carrier density
Ease of access to the location
Proximity of location to corporate offices
Access to green and sustainable energy sources
Base: 266 Senior level European decision makers with responsibility fordata centres
Size of companies surveyed: Less than 99 1%100 to 499 17%500 to 999 22%5,000 to 19,999 49%20,000 or more 11%
67%59% 45% 39% 34% 32% 24%
Lack of trusted providers in the
market
Impact of outsourcing on
internal staff
Lack of management
oversight by our organisation
Company culture
Regulations and compliance
Rising expenses
Security risk/exposure
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Digital Realty, February, 2014
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Data centre purchasing drivers, priorities, and barriers of mid-market firms
It’s no secret that the increase of digital channel interaction between firms and their customers has had an impact on their IT business strategies.
Survey results indicate that this digital interaction will accelerate growth in both internal and external
IT resources, and consequently increase demand for data centre solutions. What are the main drivers, priorities and barriers that influence data centre purchasing decisions
for European companies?