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Half of All Data Centers Understaffed
alphadogg writes "Fifty percent of IT executives say their data centers are understaffed, and companies are still looking for more ways to cut costs, according to Symantec's latest 'State of the Data Center' report. Sixteen percent of survey respondents said their data centers are extremely understaffed, and another 34% called their data centers somewhat understaffed. At the same time, data centers are becoming more complex and harder to manage, with more applications, data and increasingly demanding service-level agreements. 'Data center complexity has led to a lot of staffing challenges,' says Sean Derrington, director of storage management and high availability at Symantec."
And the other half runs Linux!
50% of all datacenter operators lie about their staffing levels.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Wait, you mean you've read the ad from my company?
1. Lay off staff 2. Hire Oompa-Loompas 3. Profit!
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The vast majority of companies said they are having trouble finding enough money and enough qualified applicants to keep their data center staff at healthy levels.
It's because they filter out qualified people who use an AOL email account!
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
... most of the data center staff we tried to poll were too busy to answer the poll.
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Gonna get flamebait for this, but what happened to the yankee spirit?
Outsourced.