InformationWeek 2014 State of the Data Center Survey Research Findings © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

The data center is full of nonstop action. In the physical infrastructure, SDN is disrupting networking, flash is shaking up storage, and hypervisors have revolutionized how we buy servers. For managers, DevOps and Lean business models are changing attitudes and application strategies. And of course, cloud is everywhere. All 217 respondents to our new State of the Data Center Survey are involved with data center management or decision- making at organizations with data centers of 1,000 square feet or larger. Among them: >> 73% see demand for data center resources increasing over the previous year. >> 41% expect to have 75% or more of their organizations' production servers virtualized by the end of >> 37% say storage growth will have the greatest impact on data center operations in the coming 12 months. >> 34% call private cloud a high priority and say their companies are there or well along the way; that’s up from 27% in our 2013 survey. Want more? Visit InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports Executive Summary v © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Size: At least 1,000 square feet © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Virtualization reigns © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

New facilities a low priority © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Standardization drives hardware purchases © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Software standardization grows, too © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Application goals: reliability, security © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

IT, biz needs usually jibe © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

SDN not widespread © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Data warehousing losing popularity? © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Convenience top reason for choosing appliances © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Appliances increasingly used for analytics © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Vmware vCenter most popular stack © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Mainframe use dying off © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Just 21% plan to increase mainframe use © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Data center is about a quarter of total budget © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

2014: Maintenance expenditures twice that of innovation © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

2015: Maintenance will still devour budget © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Data center resources needs increase © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Top disrupters: 10 Gbps networks, storage growth © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Server virtualization growing © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Disaster recovery still #1 reason to virtualize © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Best measure of virtualization success? Money saved © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Cooling a concern for most © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Most systems are in house © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Private clouds: not a high priority for most © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Apps stay on dedicated systems, out of the cloud © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Respondent job titles © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Organization’s annual revenue © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Respondents mostly in education, government © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Respondent companies mostly large © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

Survey Name InformationWeek 2014 State of the Data Center Survey Survey Date June 2014 Region North America Number of Respondents 217 Purpose To comprehensively assess the current state of data centers; understand data center resource constraints; and review efforts to monitor, manage, and measure IT and data center systems. Methodology InformationWeek surveyed business technology decision-makers at North American companies with data centers of 1,000 square feet or larger. The survey was conducted online, and respondents were recruited via an invitation containing an embedded link to the survey. The invitation was sent to qualified InformationWeek subscribers. Want more? Visit InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports Research Synopsis © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved