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Connected World Report:
Part 3, Data Center
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 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
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Part 1: Employee
Expectations
Part 2: The IT
Challenge
3 of every 5 employees
believe they don’t need
to be in the office to be
productive
3 of every 5 employees
indicate their company’s
IT Policy could be
improved or updated
2 of every 3 employees
would accept a lowerpaying job with more
work flexibility
45% of IT managers are
struggling to make their
workforces more
mobile, distributed
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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
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Q: What is your company’s greatest concern regarding its data center?
Security
Performance
Reliability/Uptime
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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 technologies
0%
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27%
10%
20%
30%
40%
100%
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Q: Which technologies and trends will be most important to your company’s data center
in the next 3 years?
Mobile access
to information
for employees
Unified fabric
uniting SAN and
LAN data traffic
Data center
virtualization
Mobile access to information for
employees
33%
32%
Data center virtualization
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%
0%
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10%
20%
30%
40%
100%
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Q: What is your company’s top priority for its data center over the next 3 years?
17%
Reduce power
and cooling costs
32%
19%
Increase data
center resilience
Improve agility and
speed in deploying
business applications
31%
Manage resource
capacity better: aligning
demand with capacity
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Q: What is your company’s primary strategy for achieving your top data center priority?
13%
Desktop virtualization
29%
17%
Unified Computing
18%
Cloud Computing
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Unified data center
fabric to unite SAN
and LAN data traffic
23%
Data center
virtualization
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Q: How do you foresee the role of the network changing in your company’s data center during
the next 3 years?
9%
69% overall see the Network’s role Increasing
Don’t know / not sure
36%
7%
Decrease
15%
Remain the same
Increase
Its central place in the data
center can manage resources,
policies, and security
33%
Increase
It unites servers, storage,
and virtualization resources
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Q: What is the primary reason for creating greater integration and collaboration among your
company’s data center teams?
6%
Don’t know / not sure
10%
27%
More efficient to have teams
integrated and working together
No plans to integrate
the separate data
center teams
15%
Cloud computing will
require us to work together
in a more integrated way
25%
New technologies will
necessitate working together
as an integrated team
17%
Virtualization will require us
to work together in a more
integrated way
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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
teams
48%
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%
0%
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10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
100%
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Virtualization
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Q: What percent of your production
environment servers are virtualized?
Q: What factors inhibit data center
virtualization?
Other (1%)
67%
Less than half
Conflicts between IT
organizations on ownership
of the virtualized
environment
14%
Proprietary virtualization
solutions tied to applications
Security
20%
15%
18%
28%
5%
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Half or more
Don’t know/
16%
Management/
administration
Stability of
virtualized
environment
16%
Difficulty building operational
processes for virtualized
environment
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Q: What is the primary reason for deploying server virtualization in your company’s data center?
11%
Create a greener data
center through reduced
power and cooling
17%
Running out of data center space
—optimize resources to reduce
physical space requirements
18%
Faster provisioning of
applications—business agility
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30%
Increase IT agility and
flexibility
24%
Optimize resources
to reduce costs
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Q: How much money do you expect to save per year by deploying server virtualization?
Percent of Current Data Center Costs
Don’t know / not sure
6%
7%
Other
50%-74%
32%
15%
40%
0%-24%
25%-49%
2 out of 5 IT managers expect to
save 25-49% due to virtualization
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Cloud Computing
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Q: Is your company planning to adopt cloud computing?
12%: No
There are no current plans or
discussions about using cloudbased computing in your company
18%: Yes
Already using applications
that have been deployed
using cloud-based computing
10%: Not now
Considering implementing cloudbased computing, but have
rejected the idea for now.
26%: Hmm…
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
Debating the value of cloud-based
computing for our organization,
without having made any decisions
52% have deployed cloud or
plan to use cloud
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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?
¾ to all
½ to ¾
12%
None
8%
27%
21%
Up to ¼
Public/Private Cloud
32%
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¼ to ½
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