Slow data strategy decision-making hampering IT implementations

The pace of data strategy decision making is slowing down, with potentially significant business consequences, according to independent research commissioned by Colt. Whilst technology deployment is getting easier, the results show that European CIOs find it harder to devise datacentre strategy than they did 12 months ago. The findings show longer planning cycles for strategic and tactical information delivery and data capacity uncertainty amongst European IT directors.

Over 500 online interviews were conducted among IT infrastructure decision-makers in the UK, France, Germany and The Netherlands. The research found that:

-62% of businesses experiencing a change in planning cycles see those cycles -extending. These numbers fluctuate to some degree across regions (UK 56%, France 73%, Germany 51%, Netherlands 76%)
-Only 38% of decision makers across Europe state that planning cycles are contracting
-63% of respondents also admit to capacity planning errors over the past 12-24 months. However, these numbers remain relatively constant across each European region (66% UK, 63% France, 64% Germany, 56% Netherlands)

“Businesses across Europe are feeling the impact of seismic change in the way that technology impacts their day-to-day operations. Globally significant macro trends – driven by technology – are fundamentally impacting their business operations. Social interaction, mobility, cloud, and information (big data) are at the forefront of many fast-growth organisations,” said Matthew Gingell, director, Colt Data Centre Services. “The data centre should be the fulcrum on which the technology-driven enterprise exists. But worryingly, we are seeing data centre decision making processes slow down at a time when they need to be quick and efficient.”

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