Adoption Of Emerging Data Center Solutions

Aggressive consolidation and adoption of virtualization technologies have yielded tremendous benefit for the midmarket, Gartner believes.

However, business leaders say internal resources are spending a disproportionate amount of time on low-value IT operations activity.

What technologies can help? Gartner lists several, notably cloud data backup, cloud-managed LANs, unified communications as a service (UCaaS), disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), hyperconvergence, and unified threat management (UTM).

At the same time, any data center investment must improve the utilization of resources and reduce infrastructure complexity.