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According to the latest edition of State of the Data Center studies by Symantec (http://www.symantec.com), mid-sized enterprises across the world including in Malaysia are currently leading in terms of new technology adoption. The need to reduce IT costs and manage increasing has been highlighted as the main drive behind this trend which saw enterprises starting to give attention to cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, deduplication, replication, storage virtualisation, and continuous data protection.

However, technology implementation will not be the only thing that going to keep data centers occupied throughout the year. Here are a number of key findings from the report, in respect to Malaysia:

- The top three key objectives of data centers in Malaysia in 2010 are improving service levels, increasing availability, and improving responsiveness.

- Security, backup and recovery, and continuous data protection are the most important initiatives in 2010 for data centers in Malaysia. Ninety-two percent of enterprises rated security somewhat or absolutely important. Eighty-six percent rated backup and recovery and continuous data protection respectively as one of their top initiatives this year.

- Staffing and budgets remain tight at data centers in Malaysia with more than half of all enterprises reporting they are somewhat/extremely understaffed. Finding budget and staff training are the biggest recruiting issues. Eighty percent of enterprises have the same or more job requisitions open this year.

- There continues to be room for improvement in disaster recovery at data centers in Malaysia. Although 77 percent of respondents from Malaysia are confident of the state of their disaster recovery plan, more than one-third have either never tested their disaster recovery plan or only tested it only once a year. In addition, close to half of the respondents do not cover their remote offices in their disaster recovery plan.

As a response to the findings in the report, Symantec has laid down a number of recommendations that can be viewed inside the full report, available at Symantec official website (http://bit.ly/7dPQvt). Looks like our data centers are going to have a very busy year, eh?