Half of All Data Centers Understaffed 211
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."
Th e other half (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
50% of all datacenter operators lie about their staffing levels.
The other 50% didn't return calls in time to be included in the survey.
Re:What is "understaffed" (Score:1, Funny)
Wait, you mean you've read the ad from my company?
Data Centers (Score:5, Funny)
Well duh! (Score:3, Funny)
It's because they filter out qualified people who use an AOL email account [slashdot.org]!
Re:Data Centers (Score:2, Funny)
The % would be higher except... (Score:4, Funny)
... most of the data center staff we tried to poll were too busy to answer the poll.
Re:Whatever. (Score:3, Funny)
Gonna get flamebait for this, but what happened to the yankee spirit?
Outsourced.