Symantec: Data Centers Understaffed, Over Budget
Symantec: Data Centers Understaffed, Over Budget
Posted 01/12/2010 at 5:09am
| by Paul Lilly
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IT managers have had plenty to complain about ever since the economy took a nosedive and companies starting make cuts, and according to Symantec's "State of the Data Center" report, half of all IT execs surveyed say their data centers are under manned.
"We recently actually lost 25 percent of our departments in cutbacks," one network manager in New York told researchers. "I'm now doing a number of different jobs. I work from home and on the weekends doing things I never had to do before. I am just trying to do more with less. We could use more people, but right now, it doesn't seem to be an option."
Some 16 percent of those surveyed said that their data centers were extremely understaffed, while the other 34 percent said their data centers were somewhat understaffed.
Even so, most of the 1,780 enterprises pinged said they are having trouble coming up with a budget that would allow them to hire more data center staff members and continue to look at ways to cut costs. Just what every overworked IT exec wants to hear.
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whitespiral
January 12, 2010 at 9:31pm
Datacenters were the first the use virtualization, years before this trend ever became mainstream. Despite what some studies or polls say, datacenters will always be understaffed because nobody is interested in working there, certainly not uni students. When you have to monitor dozens or a hundred LPARs, all on consoles that just display characters without a more attractive graphical interfase, work is not really fun.
weaslem32
January 12, 2010 at 6:02am
I recently toured an AT&T Data Center in the Dallas area that has roughly 65,000 square feet of servers. They operate the entire building on 4 people. They called in electricians and other techs only when they have a melt down.
metropolis has you.
nekollx
January 12, 2010 at 9:43am
"cut backs? There's an App for that"
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