This document provides a summary of findings from a semi-annual report on small and medium business technology plans and purchase intent. Key findings include: 1) SMB IT budgets and hiring continue to grow steadily. 2) Cloud and virtualization technologies are still growing in adoption. 3) Bring your own device (BYOD) policies are becoming more common. The report also provides data on trends in hardware spending, cloud services adoption, virtualization use, and tablet deployment.

1. State of SMB IT 1H 2012
Semi-Annual Report on Small and Medium Business Technology Plans and Purchase Intent
Reginald Herde
Director of Marketing, Spiceworks

2. Joining Me Today
John McCawley, CEO
Verecloud
Bob Beatty, IT Director
Haas and Wilkerson
Brad Cogswell, Technology Manager
McIntosh & Associates

3. Summary Findings
Strong Hiring, Stronger Spending
Cloud and Virtualization
Technologies Continue to Grow
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is
a Fact of Life
Tablets are Finding Their Space

4. SMB IT Budgets Continue to Grow
Average Planned Budgets and Percent Adding Staff Over Time (000’s)
IT Staff Changes in Next 6 Months

5. Budget Allocation Remains Consistent
Allocation of Annual IT Budget Over Time

6. New Hardware Dominates Spend
2012 Allocation of Annual IT Budget

7. Cloud Adoption Outlook Remains Strong
Cloud Adoption Over Time

8. Services in the Cloud… or Not.
Top IT Services

9. Virtualization Reaches Mainstream
Adoption of Virtualization since 2010

10. SMBs Deepen Reliance on Virtualization
Average Number of Application
64% of SMBs Virtualize Today
Categories Virtualized Over Time

11. SMBs Deepen Reliance on Virtualization
Application Categories Today and Planned for the Next 6 Month
(by those Virtualizing Today)

12. BYOD Trend is Here to Stay
BYOD in SMBs Attitudes toward Managing BYOD Devices

13. SMBs Love Their Tablets
Current and Planned
By Company Size
Deployment of Tablets

14. Background & Methodology

15. About Spiceworks
Spiceworks is the world’s largest social business platform
for IT, connecting over 2 million IT professionals with more
than 900 technology brands. By combining a
Facebook-like community with free IT management
software, Spiceworks helps businesses to discover, buy
and manage over $351 billion worth of technology
products and services each year.
For more information, please visit www.spiceworks.com

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