what’s running on your Do you know

Our survey took a deep dive into how much IT knows about what is taking place on their network infrastructure. We heard back from over 740 CIOs and IT directors. What we found indicates there maybe more going on across their networks than they are aware of.

What capacity do you think your network is running at?

What industries are running at the highest capacity?

Which industries feel they have the best knowledge of their network bandwidth utilization?

Which apps do you think are taking up the most bandwidth? - rank 1 to 10

100%

9%

K-12 15% are at 100% capacity

K-12 91% Have a good idea of utilization

Financial 94% Have a good idea of utilization

Transportation 13% are at 100% capacity

49%

17%

12%

8%

90%

80%

less than 80%

Have no idea

It’s 2

014.

99%95%90%60%50%60%20%25%15%28%44%20%

Email

Voice telephone (mobile or land-line)

Text Messaging

Voicemail

Internal corporate messaging (Yammer, Chatter, etc)

Skype

Facebook messaging

Google+

Twitter Direct Messaging

Google Chat or Google Hangout

LinkedIn Messaging

FaceTime

Electronic Messaging in 5 years

99%92%87%72%36%46%35%32%16%28%44%24%

Email

Voice telephone (mobile or land-line)

Text Messaging

Voicemail

Internal corporate messaging (Yammer, Chatter, etc)

Skype

Facebook messaging

Google+

Twitter Direct Messaging

Google Chat or Google Hangout

LinkedIn Messaging

FaceTime

Electronic Messaging Now

$

Benchmark Ranking

1. Web browsing

2. File upload/download

3. Streaming media

4. VOIP/realtime audio

5. Email

6. ERP

7. Social

8. CRM (Salesforce)

CIO - Estimated Ranking

1. Web browsing

2. Streaming video

3. Realtime video

4. Email

5. VOIP

6. File upload/download

7. CRM

8. Video upload/download

9. ERP

same moreless

(CIOs overestimated the load due to email

and CRM, and underestimated the load of

VOIP and file upload and download

compared with our benchmark.)