cisco connected technology world report,, part iii

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Connected World Report: Part 3, Data Center


Commissioned by Cisco, conducted by market research firm InsightExpress

Purpose: Increase our understanding of the challenges faced by companies as they strive to address and balance both employee and business needs: from increased employee mobility and access to social media to new technologies and trends.

Two separate surveys were conducted:

Employee survey: 100 from each country

IT decision maker survey: 100 from each country

13 countries around the world: - U.S. - Brazil- U.K. - Mexico- France - Russia- Germany - India- Italy - China - Spain - Japan- Australia

Conducted in August 2010


Part 1: Employee

Expectations

3 of every 5 employees

believe they don’t need

to be in the office to be

productive


would accept a lower-

paying job with more

work flexibility

Part 2: The IT

Challenge


indicate their company’s

IT Policy could be

improved or updated

45% of IT managers are

struggling to make their

workforces more

mobile, distributed

Part 3: Data

Center Trends

Over 50% of IT

managers are deploying

or plan to deploy cloud

computing

8 out of every 10 IT

managers said they will

use either private or

public clouds in the next

3 years


Q: What is your company’s greatest concern regarding its data center?

Security

Performance

Reliability/Uptime


0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 100%

Q: Which business trends will most impact your data center in the next three years?

(Select all that apply)

Increase in applications and data 40%

Security, risk management 39%

Need to reduce costs 34%

Distributed, mobile or remote employees 31%

Larger work force through employee hiring, mergers or acquisitions 28%

Greater use of video and collaborative technologies27%


0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 100%

Mobile access to information for employees 33%

Data center virtualization 32%

Unified fabric uniting SAN and LAN data traffic

29%

Desktop Virtualization 27%

Cloud Computing 27%

On-demand applications and access to information 27%

Unified Computing 24%

Greater adoption of video by my company 24%

Data center virtualization

Unified fabric uniting SAN and LAN data traffic

Mobile access to information for employees

Q: Which technologies and trends will be most important to your company’s data center

in the next 3 years?


Q: What is your company’s top priority for its data center over the next 3 years?

Improve agility and

speed in deploying

business applications

32%

Manage resource

capacity better: aligning

demand with capacity

31%

Increase data

center resilience

19%

Reduce power

and cooling costs

17%


Q: What is your company’s primary strategy for achieving your top data center priority?

Unified data center

fabric to unite SAN

and LAN data traffic

29%Desktop virtualization

13%

Unified Computing

17%

Cloud Computing

18%Data center

virtualization

23%


Q: How do you foresee the role of the network changing in your company’s data center during

the next 3 years?

36%IncreaseIts central place in the data

center can manage resources,

policies, and security

Increase It unites servers, storage,

and virtualization resources

33%

Decrease

7%

Remain the same

15%

Don’t know / not sure

9% 69% overall see the Network’s role Increasing


Q: What is the primary reason for creating greater integration and collaboration among your

company’s data center teams?

27%More efficient to have teams

integrated and working together

Don’t know / not sure

6%

No plans to integrate

the separate data

center teams

10%

25%New technologies will

necessitate working together

as an integrated team

Cloud computing will

require us to work together

in a more integrated way

15%

17%Virtualization will require us

to work together in a more

integrated way


0% 10% 20% 30% 50% 100%40%

Q: As a result of more unified infrastructure in the data center, do you see any new Information

Technology career opportunities developing over the next 3 years? (Select all that apply)

New career opportunities as a result of cross training and collaboration among formerly separate

teams48%

New training and certification programs for IT managers

43%

New job descriptions and titles such as Data Center Architect, Data Center Manager 41%

Don’t know / not sure 5%

I don’t see any new career opportunities developing

5%


Virtualization


Q: What percent of your production

environment servers are virtualized?

Q: What factors inhibit data center

virtualization?

Less than half67%

Half or more28%

Don’t know/5%

Other (1%)

Security

20%

Stability of

virtualized

environment

18%

Difficulty building operational

processes for virtualized

environment

16%

Conflicts between IT

organizations on ownership

of the virtualized

environment

14%

Proprietary virtualization

solutions tied to applications 15%

Management/

administration

16%


30%Increase IT agility and

flexibility

Create a greener data

center through reduced

power and cooling

11%

Running out of data center space

—optimize resources to reduce

physical space requirements

17%

Faster provisioning of

applications—business agility

18%24%Optimize resources

to reduce costs

Q: What is the primary reason for deploying server virtualization in your company’s data center?


0%-24%32%

Don’t know / not sure 6%

25%-49%40%

7%Other

50%-74% 15%

Percent of Current Data Center Costs

2 out of 5 IT managers expect to

save 25-49% due to virtualization

Q: How much money do you expect to save per year by deploying server virtualization?


Cloud Computing


Debating the value of cloud-based

computing for our organization,

without having made any decisions

26%: Hmm…

Considering implementing cloud-

based computing, but have

rejected the idea for now.

10%: Not now

There are no current plans or

discussions about using cloud-

based computing in your company

12%: No

34%: Have Plans Planning to adopt cloud-based

computing, either by migrating

current on-premises applications

to the cloud or by purchasing

software-as-a-service

18%: YesAlready using applications

that have been deployed

using cloud-based computing

Q: Is your company planning to adopt cloud computing?

52% have deployed cloud or

plan to use cloud


Public/Private Cloud

Q: If you are planning to use the cloud, what percentage of your company’s data and applications

do you expect to store/operate in a private or public cloud in the next 3 years?

Up to ¼ 27%½ to ¾ 21%

¾ to all 12% 8% None

32% ¼ to ½


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