IT managers across the world are struggling to make their networks meet performance benchmarks, despite ongoing investments.
* 1/3 of global organisations admit to multiple failures every week, with 16% complaining of daily outages.
* 16% experience daily network outages.
* 24% wait more than three years before investing in new technology.
* 91% of the 1,750 IT decision makers believe that their current IT infrastructures require substantial upgrades to meet the demands of virtualisation and cloud computing.
* Database applications (41%), communication tools (30%) and Microsoft Office programs (25%) cause the most problems.
* Enterprises are upgrading their data centre networks every two years.
* Outages last on average 20 minutes, with 2% having to endure outages of more than an hour.