A survey of 400 European data centre managers has revealed that 70 percent felt that data traffic increases and increasingly challenging infrastructure was hampering performance levels.

Decreased IT budgets were also cited as being key in causing data centres to miss performance targets.

Semiconductor firm LSI, which carried out the survey, identified increasing workloads combined with falling IT budgets as being responsible for poor performance.

LSI commented “data growth is outstripping the infrastructure build-out required to support it, and data centre managers are acutely feeling this challenge".