A cure for bulging datacentres

It isn’t just big data that’s catching firms off guard and filling datacentres ever more rapidly (Companies caught off guard by big data in 2011, says Oracle): while over a third say that they will need to expand their datacentre in the next two years, the same proportion say they have virtualised less than 30 per cent of their infrastructure. This points to an obvious missed opportunity for many businesses: virtualisation gives the flexibility and the efficiency organisations need to squeeze every last inch of space and capability out of their datacentre architecture.

Ratmir Timashev, CEO, Veeam