The results show a growing sector adapting to rapid change on multiple levels. In almost every area under discussion — whether outages, resiliency, staffing, workload placement, or innovation — there is considerable diversity in the strategies being employed.

Key Highlights Include:

• Bigger, more frequent outages are more painful to business
• The enterprise data center is neither dead nor dying
• Greater visibility needed for mission-critical workloads in the public clouds
• Power usage effectiveness flattens out
• The data center staffing crisis is worsening