Data center professionals and the data they manage continue to increase in importance. Over a third of companies surveyed now rely on more than six separate data centers, while more than a quarter operate over 10 data centers.

As organizations increasingly deploy high density devices to meet their capacity demands within limited physical space, the capabilities of the aging data center will become a problem. 38% of organizations are depending on data centers that are at least four years old, and as it typically takes two years to complete the build of a new data center, this means that these data centers were designed up to six years ago, in a pre-high-density era. As their physical infrastructure is designed to legacy specifications, at best they will struggle to support blade servers to their full potential. At worst, the lifecycle of these data centers will be reduced as they become functionally obsolete.