Checked out the latest report by MeriTalk yet? The “Big Five in Overdrive: Are State and Local Networks Ready?”, underwritten by Brocade, examines how the implementation of the Big Five – data center consolidation, mobility, security, big data, and cloud computing – will affect state and local government IT. MeriTalk surveyed 201 state and local IT professionals and discovered that most state and local organizations plan to fully deploy the Big Five in the next three years, but almost all (94 percent) say their agency is not fully prepared for the resulting demands on the IT organization.
Has your agency prepared their networks for the Big Five? Has your agency aligned their data center consolidation plans to the major IT trends driving the consolidaiton industry? Let us know what you’re doing to prepare.
To learn more about the Big Five in Overdrive, click here. Join in on the discussion about your agencies consolidation plans and the future of data center consolidation – register today for the March 13 Data Center Brainstorm at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.