{"id":1304,"date":"2009-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/gartner-data-center-prediction-comes-true\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:21:36","slug":"gartner-data-center-prediction-comes-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/gartner-data-center-prediction-comes-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner Data Center Prediction Comes True"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gartner_Says_50_Percent_of_Data_Centers_Will_Have_Insufficient_Power_and_Cooling_Capacity_by_2008\"><\/span>Gartner Says 50 Percent of Data Centers Will Have Insufficient Power and Cooling Capacity by 2008<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>STAMFORD, Conn., November 29, 2006 \u2014 Organizations are increasingly deploying more computing power, but, by 2008, 50 percent of current data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=499090\">according to Gartner, Inc.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Gartner made the above shocking prediction \u2026 then it turned out to be true. CIOs and IT Managers are maxing out their data centers as Moore\u2019s law plays out \u2013 twice as fast, twice as much power, half the space, every 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s economy, IT executives are left with a difficult set of decisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do I request more capital to meet my growing IT demands?<\/li>\n<li>Can I reduce costs to meets the demands?<\/li>\n<li>How do I keep my data center running with less skilled IT professionals on staff?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With limited capital to invest in data centers and the pressure to reduce costs, Many CIOs are considering how they can expand their data centers through co-location with an experienced managed datacenter operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner Says 50 Percent of Data Centers Will Have Insufficient Power and Cooling Capacity by 2008 STAMFORD, Conn., November 29, 2006 \u2014 Organizations are increasingly deploying more computing power, but, by 2008, 50 percent of current data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment, according to Gartner, Inc. Two years ago, Gartner made the above shocking prediction \u2026 then it turned out to be true. CIOs and IT Managers are maxing out their data centers as Moore\u2019s law plays out \u2013 twice as fast, twice as much power, half the space, every 18 months. In today\u2019s economy, IT executives are left with a difficult set of decisions: Do I request more capital to meet my growing IT demands? Can I reduce costs to meets the demands? How do I keep my data center running with less skilled IT professionals on staff? With limited capital to invest in data centers and the pressure to reduce costs, Many CIOs are considering how they can expand their data centers through co-location with an experienced managed datacenter operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gartner Data Center Prediction Comes True | OTAVA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gartner\u2019s data center predictions come true as cloud and edge computing reshape IT strategies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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