Symantec State of the Data Center Report 2007

Today's data centers are becoming more complex and are likely to become even more so in the next five years. Therefore, it's important for data center managers to understand today's challenges and how to deal with them.

This study reviews the state of today's data center, and discusses major factors impacting today's data centers, such as:

• Growing complexities
• Increased business demands
• Staffing issues
• Data growth, storage, and backup
• Disaster recovery