Based on the latest research findings on data centres by market intelligence provider IDC, complexities and redundancies will fester in the migration stage.

The current economic recession has neither made things easier for chief information officers (CIOs), who are still at a loss on where to start tackling the problem.

"There is a lot of pent-up demand for revamping and building new data centres that have been postponed due to the ongoing recession," said Avneesh Saxena, group vice president for domain research at IDC Asia Pacific.

IDC predicted that IT-driven companies are likely to rely heavily on cloud computing services offered by other organisations to preempt paralysis of operations because of more problematic situations.