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Most organizations have an outdated datacenter

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Harmeet
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TORONTO, CANADA: With the rise of mobile and cloud computing, most organizations lack the IT infrastructure needed to respond quickly to front office and customer needs, according to a new study by Softchoice, a North American technology solutions and services provider, and VMware, the industry-leading virtualization software company.

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The study also reveals a significant competitive gap between organizations with an agile, efficient IT infrastructure and those without.

"With cloud and mobile's enterprise footprint expanding, more front office workers are empowered to choose their own technology and apps," says Doug Sekus, Softchoice's director of Business Development, Datacenter. "We've found most organizations' outdated datacenters are struggling to keep up with employees' and clients' growing demands."

In The Virtual Space Race: How IT with 'The Right Stuff' creates a competitive advantage, Softchoice and VMware surveyed IT managers and line-of-business managers in the U.S. to examine their expectations around IT department responsiveness and IT infrastructure agility.

Some highlights include:

* IT departments with the right infrastructure are 4x more likely to deploy new applications within one business week compared to those that don't.

* 58 percent of organizations take over a month to deploy new applications.

* 61 percent of organizations still virtualize less than half of their IT environments.

* 46 percent of organizations still have no hybrid cloud capabilities.