In today's post-recession economy, businesses are seeking methods to expand while mining new markets. Technology will be a critical enabler to these expansion initiatives, and, as such, a diverse and efficient datacenter strategy will be essential.

IT organizations with an eye on the future will be responsible for real business transformation, not simply the cost reductions of the past and will be relying on a datacenter with a highly automated set of standardized infrastructure where applications and data are deployed and provisioned based on workload demand. Still, IDC studies have found that more than one in five IT managers don't feel their staff are skilled enough to implement a private cloud.

The IDC white paper, "The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services" provides an overview of how IT organizations can optimize across the lifecycle of their datacenters and build a foundation for future operations remaining strong, increasing efficiency on the IT and facilities side, improving user support and production and becoming more flexible and responsive to the business. Download this white paper to learn more about how smarter datacenters will improve your organization and the factors important when deciding on datacenter technologies.