Cisco connected Technology world report,, Part III

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© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2

Part 1: Employee Part 2: The IT Part 3: Data Expectations Challenge Center Trends 3 of every 5 employees 3 of every 5 employees believe they don’t need indicate their company’s to be in the office to be IT Policy could be productive improved or updated 2 of every 3 employees 45% of IT managers are would accept a lower- struggling to make their paying job with more workforces more work flexibility mobile, distributed© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3

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 27% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 100%© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5

Q: Which technologies and trends will be most important to your company’s data center in the next 3 years? Mobile access Unified fabric Data center to information uniting SAN and virtualization for employees LAN data traffic 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% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 100% © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6

Q: What is your company’s top priority for its data center over the next 3 years? 17% Reduce power and cooling costs 32% Improve agility and 19% speed in deploying business applications Increase datacenter resilience 31% Manage resource capacity better: aligning demand with capacity© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7

Q: What is your company’s primary strategy for achieving your top data center priority? 13% Desktop virtualization 29% Unified data center 17% fabric to unite SAN Unified Computing and LAN data traffic 18% 23% Cloud Computing Data center virtualization© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8

Q: How do you foresee the role of the network changing in your company’s data center during the next 3 years? 9% Don’t know / not sure 36% Increase 7% Its central place in the data center can manage resources, Decrease policies, and security 15% 33% Remain the same Increase It unites servers, storage, and virtualization resources© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9

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 27% More efficient to have teams 10% integrated and working together No plans to integrate the separate data center teams 25% 15% New technologies will make Cloud computing will necessitate working togetherrequire us to work together as an integrated team in a more integrated way 17% Virtualization will require us to work together in a more integrated way© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10

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 48% among formerly separate teams New training and certification 43% programs for IT managers New job descriptions and titles such as Data Center Architect, 41% Data Center Manager Don’t know / not sure 5% I don’t see any new career 5% opportunities developing 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 100% © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11

Q: What factors inhibit data centerQ: What percent of your virtualization? production environment servers are virtualized? Other (1%) Conflicts between IT organizations on ownership of the 67% Less than half virtualized Security environment 14% 20% Proprietary virtualization solutions tied to applications 15% Stability of 18% virtualized environment 28% Half or more 16% Management/ 16% Don’t know/ administration Difficulty building 5% operational processes for virtualized environment© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13

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 30% Increase IT agility and flexibility 17% Running out of data center space – optimize resources to reduce physical space requirements 24% Optimize resources 18% to reduce costs Faster provisioning of applications – business agility© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 14

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 32% 0%-24% 50%-74% 15% 40% 25%-49% 2 out of 5 IT managers expect to save 25-49% due to virtualization© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15

Q: Is your company planning to adopt cloud computing? 12%: No 18%: Yes There are no current plans or Already using applications discussions about using cloud- that have been deployed based computing in your company using cloud-based computing 10%: Not now BRA IND DEU Considering implementing cloud- based computing, but have rejected the idea for now. 34%: Have Plans Planning to adopt cloud-based computing, either by migrating current on-premises applications to the cloud or by purchasing 26%: Hmm… software-as-a-service Debating the value of cloud-based computing for our organization, BRA IND CHN without having made any decisions 52% have deployed cloud or plan to use cloud© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17

Q: Is your company planning to adopt cloud computing? 12%: No 18%: Yes There are no current plans or Already using applications discussions about using cloud- that have been deployed based computing in your company using cloud-based computing 10%: Not now Considering implementing cloud- based computing, but have rejected the idea for now. 34%: Have Plans Planning to adopt cloud-based computing, either by migrating current on-premises applications to the cloud or by purchasing 26%: Hmm… 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© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 18

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 12% 8% None 27% Up to ¼ ½ to ¾ 21% Public/Private Cloud 32% ¼ to ½© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 19

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