Aperture Research Institute - Industry Analysis on Data Center Management

Research

The Aperture Research Institute publishes research on a quarterly basis. Each research note provides the industry with vital information on trends in enterprise data centers. We collect data by surveying more than 100 data center professionals and executives from a variety of industries.

Future reports will investigate monitoring in the data center and trends in equipment deployment.

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November 10	Organizations overlooking significant opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce expenses, despite adoption of green initiatives Aperture Research Institute™ finds that while data center energy efficiency initiatives have become commonplace, efforts by IT management to optimize resource and process efficiency lag significantly behind.
October 7	Aperture Research Institute™ Report Provides Insight into how Data Centers are Expanding Computing Capabilities during the Economic Recession As data center costs and capacity needs continue to rise, organizations are starting to turn toward new models for deploying and acquiring external computing capabilities, highlighting the need for improved management tools.
June 23	Data center management focuses on efficiency to balance increasing demand for IT services with stagnant budgets While the slowing economy appears to have little effect on demand for IT services, it is driving improvements in energy efficiency and resource utilization.
December 08	Data center management lacks unified tools and strategy for infrastructure monitoring Survey reveals that many data centers are unable to use infrastructure monitoring strategically because of critical gaps in coverage.
May 08	Data Centers Lack Tools to Measure Efficiency and Support Green Initiatives Survey shows that organizations lack the tools to measure energy efficiency, lack processes to charge the business for energy use, and many do not decommission ‘ghost’ servers that are no longer needed.
Mar 08	Data Centers are Adopting Green Initiatives but are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages Survey shows that while organizations are adopting initiatives to cut their environmental mimpact, few trust the claims vendors make about ‘greener’ equipment.
Dec 07	Majority of Data Centers in Production are Not Equipped for High Density Operation Survey shows that while new data centers are being built, many companies’ ‘newest’ data centers are more than four years old, and their low density specifications may shorten the entire data center lifecycle.
Aug 07	ITIL is Gaining Momentum but the Data Center is Slow to Adopt Survey shows that ITIL is being adopted but the data center is being left behind: configuration information is incomplete and fragmented.
Apr 07	Data Center Professionals Turn to High-Density Computing as Major Boom Continues Research reveals a trend towards the rapid deployment of high-density devices, but will this technology solve the capacity demand or create new unforeseen challenges for data centers?
Nov 06	Organizations Struggle with Data Center Capacity Management Survey shows data center processes and tools lagging.