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

2. 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 2015. >> 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. 2014: Maintenance expenditures twice that of innovation © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

19. 2015: Maintenance will still devour budget © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

33. 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 email invitation containing an embedded link to the survey. The email invitation was sent to qualified InformationWeek subscribers. Want more? Visit InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports Research Synopsis © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved