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“Which of the following initiatives are likely to be your IT organization’s top IT management priorities over
the next 12 months?”
Improve the efficiency of IT (e.g., Lean initiatives)
30%
Increase IT capacity/resources to drive business innovations
25%
Define strategy for risk and compliance
49%
18%
Increase the scope of IT’s centralized or shared services
15%
Improve or streamline business processes
16%
Critical priority
44%
20%
Improve the measurement of IT’s impact on business
performance
Create a comprehensive cloud/as-a-service
adoption/migration plan
45%
25%
Improve our customer management capabilities
Market the IT department within the firm
51%
27%
Lower IT’s operational costs to free up money for new
initiatives
Improve the sustainability and energy efficiency of IT
operations and infrastructure
Improve IT performance by adopting processes like CMM or
ITIL
46%
12%
11%
8%
13%
48%
45%
41%
30%
27%
30%
23%
High priority
“Overall, including the data on networked and direct-attached disk storage that you know about, how much
data does your firm currently maintain?”
10 PB or more
10 TB to 99 TB
General file storage, including file servers
28%
2%
Database systems 3%
Server backups for disaster recovery and continuity
3%
Data warehousing, business intelligence, reporting, and analytics
2%
Digital and web content repositories, such as
video, audio, images, and web pages
2%
Overall, companywide
22%
27%
2%
Archiving all forms, including compliance, discovery, and
infrequently accessed data
1 TB to 9 TB
22%
25%
23%
22%
24%
22%
24%
21%
20%
14%
20%
Enterprise content management
1%
16%
21%
"Big data" not otherwise captured in other options
2%
14%
17%
PC backups for disaster recovery and continuity
1%
16%
17%
Other data
1% 12%
15%
7%
“What applications are driving network and data center upgrades and deployments?”
General purpose enterprise applications, such as
CRM and ERP
50%
Low latency trading
27%
Non-low latency trading
8%
Non-trading ISV applications
8%
Microburst data, messages (like when reports are
released from government agencies)
5%
(1) critical customer
apps; (1) VoIP
Other, please specify
3%
“Please select the most important network and data center catalysts that prompted, or are
prompting, changes to your data center network architecture”
Desire to reduce cost of labor to manage the network
52%
Consolidating data centers
52%
Desire to improve IT responsiveness and agility
52%
Ability to meet compliance or regulatory demands
44%
Desire to improve virtual machine mobility
30%
Desire to improve server to server traffic performance
28%
Desire to improve server to user traffic performance
25%
Desire to reduce power and cooling costs
25%
Desire to improve speed and accuracy of network
change management
25%
Current network is antiquated or end of life
Changing/augmenting disaster recovery plans
Network support contract too expensive
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20%
13%
9%
“Thinking about these capabilities, which of the following do you consider to be an important element of the
service? Rate each on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 = ‘Not a critical element of a scalable data center’ and 5 = ‘A
critical element of any scalable data center’”
Security
78%
Reliability and robustness
62%
Performance
52%
End to end transaction performance
36%
Predictable latency
27%
Automation
23%
Low latency
22%
Simplicity
16%
Open and standards based
11%
Traffic visibility (L2-L7)
11%
Energy efficient
4%
Increasing the sphere of VM mobility
3%
Build as a pod or modular
3%
Critical