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The majority of organisations are centralising and consolidating their IT systems into the datacentre to increase efficiency and reduce management costs, new research reveals.

That is the conclusion on PMP Research, which adds that many are also extending this centralisation to include moving processing power away from the desktop.

The report, commissioned by Computacentre, said virtualisation technology is increasingly being adopted to achieve efficiency gains, simplify disaster recovery processes, increase availability and provide greater flexibility.

A total of 62 per cent of the 100 IT directors and CIOs surveyed stated that virtualisation is either important or very important to their organisation.

Of the respondents, 54 per cent said their organisations were moving toward a more centralised IT environment with a further 25 per cent feeling they had largely completed the task.

Terry Walby, datacentre solutions director, Computacenter Services, said: "We see two recurring challenges in most UK datacentres. Firstly, the age of the facility means it was not built with today's technology in mind and is ill equipped to provide for current demands for space, power and cooling.

"Secondly, the majority of datacentre infrastructure is not being used efficiently, with utilisation rates averaging 15 per cent and as low as five per cent in some instances."

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