2013 IT Priorities- Europe What’s driving IT managers’ technology

decisions

January 2013

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How do you expect your 2013 budget for information technology to

differ from your 2012 budget?

595 Responses

Eastern Europe Includes:

Romania, Russia, Bulgaria,

Poland, Ukraine, Croatia,

Serbia, Greece, Czech

Republic, Hungary, Slovenia,

Latvia, Macedonia, Albania,

Belarus, Bosnia &

Herzegovina, Lithuania,

Malta, Montenegro, Estonia,

Cyprus, Gibraltar,

Liechtenstein, Moldova, San

Marino, Slovakia

30%

22%

33%

37%

24%

13%

15%

18%

9%

20%

33%

25%

30%

28%

36%

12%

20%

5%

12%

11%

13%

18%

15%

14%

10%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

UK

Benelux

Nordics

DACH

Eastern Europe

Same

Increase by less than 5%

Increase by more than 5%

Decrease by less than 10%

Decrease by more than 10%

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Which areas will your budget increase in?

447 Responses

43% 32%

22% 31%

57%

46% 41%

28%

50%

55%

30% 38%

31%

41%

25% 15%

30%

16%

13% 10%

24%

11%

16%

28% 31%

31% 32%

38%

19% 28%

19% 8%

19% 13% 11%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

UK Benelux Nordics DACH Eastern Europe

None

Staff

Maintenance

Outside services

Cloud services

Software

Hardware

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Which areas will your budget decrease in?

316 Responses

45% 47% 38% 41% 29%

28% 25% 19% 26%

21%

37% 44%

29% 37%

36%

26% 14% 33% 19% 19%

23% 50%

14% 44% 34%

26%

8%

33% 22% 22%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

UK Benelux Nordics DACH Eastern Europe

None

Staff

Maintenance

Outside services

Software

Hardware

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Which best describes your department's focus in 2013?

717 Responses

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

UK

Benelux

Nordics

DACH

Eastern Europe

Reduce spending in IT

Help the business automate more

Expand IT to support business growth

Maintain service levels with flat budgets

Selective spending in a few key areas

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Which of the following describes the effects of recession or recovery on your IT

organisation?

716 Responses

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

UK

Benelux

Nordics

DACH

Eastern Europe

We never suffered from the recession

We're back to normal

We're recovering but slowly

We're still stuck in recession

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Which of these broad initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

693 Responses

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

UK Benelux Nordics DACH Eastern Europe

Compliance

Cloud computing using externalproviders

Private cloud

Big data

Mobility

Outsourcing

Consolidation

ITIL

None of the above

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How is your adoption of cloud computing affecting your IT budget in 2013?

175 Responses

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

UK

Benelux

DACH

Eastern Europe

IT services spending is decreasing

IT services spending is flat

IT services spending is increasing inabsolute dollars and as a percent ofthe whole budget

IT services spending is increasing inabsolute dollars but not as a percentof the whole budget

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Which type of cloud service providers are you considering working with in 2013?

160 Responses

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Pure--play cloud provider

Managed service provider

Telecommunications provider

Technology solution provider/VAR

Equipment vendor offering cloud services

Systems integrator

Professional services organization

Specialty cloud provider (like Software as a Service)

Rest of Europe UK

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Which of these external cloud services do you plan to use in 2013?

156 Responses

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Storage as a Service

Disaster Recovery/business continuity

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Database as a Service

Security as a Service

Testing and development

Collaboration

Hybrid cloud integration

Private cloud design and deployment

Data center as a Service

Rest of Europe UK

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Which of these infrastructure projects will your company implement, at some level, in

2013?

264 Responses

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Data center consolidation

Server virtualization

Disaster recovery/business continuity

Energy-efficient computing/sustainable or green IT

Create private (internal) cloud

Integrate with external cloud

Automating server provisioning/management

Migrate to cloud email

Upgrade to Windows Server 2012

Upgrade to vSphere 5.1

None of the above

Rest of Europe UK

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Which of these primary storage initiatives will you company deploy in 2013?

237 Responses

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Storage virtualization

Data reduction in primary storage (deduplication,compression, etc.)

Cloud storage

Solid state storage

Storage for virtual desktops

Object storage

Scale-out NAS

Storage for big data

None of the above

Rest of Europe

UK

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Which of these backup storage initiatives will you company deploy in 2013?

295 Responses

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Data deduplication for backup

Disaster recovery/business continuity

New tape technologies (such as LTFS)

Backup for virtual servers

Cloud backup

None of the above

Don't know

Rest of Europe

UK

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Which of these desktop projects will your company do in 2013?

188 Responses

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

Migrate to Windows 7

Migrate to Windows 8

Implement desktop virtualization

Implement application virtualization

Implement Bring Your Own Device or similar self-service policy for enduser devices and/or

applications

Adopt online productivity apps, such as WindowsOffice Live (Office365)

None of the above

Rest of Europe

UK

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Which of these policies are you currently implementing or will implement in 2013?

Check all that apply

184 Responses

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Allow users to buy their own laptops ordesktops for use on the corporate network

Allow users to buy their own tablets for useon the corporate network

Allow users to purchase their ownsmartphones

Allow users to select their ownapplications, such as Google Docs

Allow users to select their own dataprotection and transfer, such as Dropbox

Allow users to use select their own email,such as Gmail

Rest of Europe

UK

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Which of these security initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

226 Responses

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Data protection

Network-based security

Application-based security

Identity and access Management

Security data management/analysis

Mobile endpoint security (for iPhones, Blackberries, etc.)

Virtualization security

Threat detection/management (anti-malware, etc.)

Vulnerability management (patch/configuration mgmt)

Cloud security

None of the above

Rest of Europe UK

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Which of the following software initiatives will your company deploy in 2013?

331 Responses

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

UK

Benelux

Nordics

DACH

Eastern Europe

None of the above

Corporate performance management

Business process automation/businessprocess management

Collaboration applications

Content management

Advanced DBMS (such as in-memory,columnar, NoSQL)

Data governance/data quality

Service-oriented architecture

Packaged business applications

Custom application development

Business intelligence/analytics/datawarehousing

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Which of the following deployment models will your company use in 2013? Check all

that apply.

245 Responses

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

UK Benelux Nordics DACH EasternEurope

On premise software/hardware

On premise appliance

Public cloud infrastructure with oursoftware (packaged or custom)

Private cloud infrastructure with oursoftware (packaged or custom)

Software as a service (cloudapplication)

Platform as a service

Mobile

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What are your plans in 2013 for big data management and analytics?

282 Responses

22% 17%

11% 13%

28%

13% 13%

16%

17% 8% 13%

11%

13%

11% 22%

13% 21%

25%

14%

36% 43% 42%

50%

30%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

UK Benelux Nordics DACH EasternEurope

No plans

Evaluate big data

Start a big data program

Expand our current big data program

Continue our current big data program

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Which of these networking initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

261 Responses

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Integrated cellular and WLAN

Software-defined networking

Application delivery optimization (ADO)/WAN optimization

Unified communications/collaboration

Video conferencing

Network virtualization

Converged storage and data center network fabric

Mobile device management for BYOD (enduser's…

Remote access/branch office connectivity

Network management

None of the above

Rest of Europe UK

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What Ethernet speeds are you currently

using? Check all that apply

260 Responses

What Ethernet speeds will you deploy

in 2013? Check all that apply

260 Responses

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

1 gigabit 10 gigabit 40 gigabit

UK Rest of Europe

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

10 gigabit 40 gigabit 100 gigabit

UK Rest of Europe

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Which of these mobility initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

379 Responses

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

UK Benelux Nordics DACH Eastern Europe

Smartphones

Tablet PCs

Mobile device management

Mobile security

Mobile enhancement of corporatedata/applicatons

Mobile virtualization

None of the above

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Audience

Demographics

Priorities Survey – UK

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Number of Employees

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How many employees does your company have?

458 Responses

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

UK

Benelux

Nordics

DACH

Eastern Europe

Sample of organisations that completed this

survey