Take the Modern Data Center Infrastructure Quiz!

IT organizations understand the need for a modern data center infrastructure. To support data and workloads in the most efficient way, data centers need to be agile, reliable, and secure. They also need to be able to store data and provide data protection that can scale with the changing needs of your organization.

Take this Modern Data Center Infrastructure quiz and identify the issues that are most important for your business. We’ll instantly deliver the most helpful content to address your key modern data center infrastructure challenges!

1. How would you rate your organization’s ability to support new operating models, effectively manage risk and be flexible enough to support what may happen in the future?

Very good Excellent Good Not so good

2. What do you believe are the main reasons your organization’s IT environment has become more complex?

New technology adoption Growing IT skills gaps Ever-changing threats Higher data volumes

3. What is your greatest infrastructure challenge?

Containing costs as performance pressures increase Prioritizing cyber resilience and zero trust principles Delivering elastic resources that can scale up and down Transitioning to an OpEx model

4. What is the biggest infrastructure need in your organization?

Stronger security controls Saving time and effort on common server management tasks Flexibility to align with an evolving business Improving consumption of technology

5. What is your main goal in building a modern and resilient IT infrastructure?

Meeting Zero Trust requirements Automating server management tasks Future-proofing Improving operations

6. What would be the most significant risk factor if you maintained the status quo?

We would not be able to adequately protect ourselves from ransomware and other cyberattacks We would not make progress toward delivering on-premises IT services-as-a-Service We would not be flexible enough to support what may happen in the future We would not be able to scale our application environment

7. Does your organization’s cybersecurity verify users at every point in the IT environment before permissions are granted?

Yes, we can monitor across the server life cycle Yes, we have multiple layers of security within our IT environment No, we are lagging in storage infrastructure refreshes No, we cannot protect in real time from the edge to the data center

8. Which would be the biggest benefit of Dell’s approach to Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) for your organization?

Breadth and depth of knowledge Reduced burden on personnel and operations Reduced risk of underprovisioning the infrastructure Elimination of the infrastructure bottleneck

9. How prepared is your current server environment to support your organization’s innovation initiatives?

Our current budget structure makes it too difficult to adopt as-a-Service offerings We have plenty of room for improvement We’re working on future-proofing our infrastructure We’re getting there, and we assume every device is a potential threat

10. What are the benefits of working with an experienced professional services provider?

Helps with optimizing our server management Provides solutions optimized for next-generation technologies Provides storage-as-a-service that complements a broader cloud strategy Provides reliable and secure server infrastructure solutions built for medium-sized businesses