EVENTS is moving slower than I ’ d have thought ,” he says . “ It is probably because it ’ s not easy to re-architect their legacy applications for a cloud environment .” Digital transformation is a seismic and traumatic operation for a large organization , and it can be costly too , but it does clear the way to future growth . So don ’ t expect an exodus of enterprise data centers ’ workloads to co-location or the cloud . Inertia is an enemy to change . Stansberry predicts that investment in traditional data centers will continue for some years to come . Though Uptime Institute still earns its bread by monitoring the design , build , commissioning and operation of data centers , it has a big role in promoting effective management policies to its clients and across its network . More than 70 percent of respondents to the 2017 survey admit that their organizational processes for evaluating colocation and cloud providers left room for improvement and at worst were incoherent . “ Managers may
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not have the breadth of vision to make effective decisions . We are really going to work on helping people look across silos .”
The survey does show that there ’ s a much more realistic awareness of the business critical nature of data to a business and the consequences of outages . However , though 90 percent of organizations say they conduct root cause analysis of any IT outage , only 60 percent report that they measure the cost of downtime as a business metric . There still seems to be something of a gap between perception and action .
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