o Are you faced with increasing pressure to deploy technology faster? You’re not alone. This year, over half of enterprises will be prioritizing building a private cloud, a concept introduced less than five years ago. They are on a journey to improve IT agility, increase cloud-based service usage and reduce costs. Join Brocade and guest Forrester Research, Inc. as they discuss first-hand industry experience to learn where companies are today, and the #1 reason people are held back.

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IT AGILITY: HOW DO YOU
STACK UP?
Chip Copper, PhD, Principal Engineer, Brocade
Andre Kindness, Principal Analyst, Forrester, Guest Speaker
Jim Malone, Executive Editorial Director, IDG Enterprise

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Making Leaders Successful
Every Day

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“a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business
(technology) when its fundamentals are about to change. That
change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may
just as likely signal the beginning of the end.”
Andy Grove (Intel Ex-CEO), Only the Paranoid Survive

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IT Agility: How Do You Stack Up?
Andre Kindness
Principal Analyst
April 15, 2014
Empowered customers forcing business and IT change

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Source: “Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2013”
“How important were the following benefits in your firm's decision to use SaaS?”
49%
54%
57%
59%
60%
62%
63%
67%
68%
69%
69%
72%
75%
Lack of in-house IT staff to maintain a traditional…
Ability to substitute upfront costs with regular…
Having access to a wide ecosystem of solutions…
Iterative deployment model supports a higher…
Gaining functionality that is not available in a…
To support a large number of mobile and remote…
Improve collaboration with business partners
Lower overall costs
Support business innovation with new capabilities
Allows us to focus resources on more important…
Faster delivery of new features and functions…
Speed of implementation and deployment
Improved business agility
"Important" or "Very Important"
Base: 1417 North American software decision-makers
IT organizations closer to business have slightly
different priorities
Speed
And
Agility

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Doesn’t need to be a one dimensional solution

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Base: North American and European IT decision makers at enterprise firms with 1,000 or more employees
Source Forrsights Hardware Survey Q3 2013
13%
21%
33%
9%
10%
10%
Public cloud† (N=575) Hosted private cloud† (N=575) Internal private cloud† (N=575)
Planning to implement in the next 12 months
Expanding/upgrading implementation or implemented, not expanding
“What are your firm’s plans to adopt the following forms of
cloud computing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)?”
(Percentage of respondents who answered “planning to implement in the next 12 months”,
“implemented, not expanding”, and “expanding/upgrading implementation)
No surprise that infrastructure and operations
professionals want private clouds

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Base: North American and European IT decision makers at enterprise firms with 1,000 or more employees
“Which of the following initiatives are likely to be your firm’s/organization’s top hardware/IT
infrastructure priorities over the next 12 months?”
(Percentage of respondents who answered “critical” or “high” priority)
28%
29%
60%
80%
80%
31%
36%
63%
79%
81%
35%
46%
63%
79%
78%
49%
55%
68%
77%
77%
Use cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) at a
service provider
Build an internal private cloud operated by IT (not a
service provider)
Automate the management of virtualized servers to
gain flexibility and resiliency
Maintain or implement broad use of server
virtualization as the standard server deployment
model
Consolidate IT infrastructure via server
consolidation, data center consolidation, or server
virtualization
2013 (N=1,083)
2012‡ (N=1,036)
2011† (N=1,240)
2010* (N=1,037)
*Source: Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2010
†Source: Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2011
‡Source: Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2012
Source: Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2013
After 7 years, orgs still working on the same
issues. Why?

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MPLS Internet
Private DCPrivate DC
XaaS
Consumer resources
(Gmail, Dropbox, etc.)
Exponentially increasingly complex system
Source: Forrester Research

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10
Businesses pushing for a software driven network
(automation)

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Thank you
Andre Kindness
akindness@forrester.com

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