IT Priorities in Europe

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2013 IT Priorities- EuropeWhats driving IT managers technology

decisions

January 2013

910 Respondents

TechTarget


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Overview section

TechTarget


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Sample of organisations that completed this

survey
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Number of Employees

TechTarget 4

How many employees does your company have?

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UK France DACH Spain Benelux Nordics EasternEurope

1-49

50-99

100-249

250-499

500-999

1,000-4,999

5,000-9,999

10,000-24,999

25,000-49,999

50,000-99,999

100,000+


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Eastern Europe and Nordics Higher Increases in

Spending across Europe; Western Europe remaining

consistent from 2012

TechTarget 5

How do you expect your 2013 budget for information technology todiffer from your 2012 budget?

Eastern Europe Includes:

Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Poland,

Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Czech

Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia,

Macedonia, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia &

Herzegovina, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro,

Estonia, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein,

Moldova, San Marino, Slovakia

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Same

Increase by less than 5%

Increase by more than 5%

Decrease by less than 10%

Decrease by more than 10%


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Budget increase in cloud services outside

Western Europe; Software growth highest overall

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Which areas will your budget increase in?

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Hardware

Software

Cloud services

Outsideservices

Maintenance

Staff

None


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Outside services drastically decreasing

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Which areas will your budget decrease in?

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Hardware

Software

Outsideservices

Maintenance

Staff

None


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Supporting business growth top focus in 2013; Regions

with economic dips working on select key areas

TechTarget 8

Which best describes your department's focus in 2013?

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Selective spending in a few keyareas

Maintain service levels with flatbudgets

Expand IT to support businessgrowth

Help the business automate more

Reduce spending in IT


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Recession a big affect in select regions + No

affect in other regions = Very select overall!

TechTarget 9

Which of the following describes the effects of recession or recovery on your ITorganisation?

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We're still stuck in recession

We're recovering but slowly

We're back to normal

We never suffered from therecession


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Mobility, Consolidation and Compliance top

initiatives for 2013

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Which of these broad initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

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Compliance

Cloud computing using externalproviders

Private cloud

Big data

Mobility

Outsourcing

Consolidation

ITIL

None of the above


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2013 TechTarget EMEA IT

Priorities Survey

Mobility/End-User Infrastructure

TechTarget


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Windows 7 Migration top importance; desktop

virtualisation highest deployment to date

TechTarget 12

Which of these desktop projects will your company do in 2013?

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Migrate to Windows 7

Migrate to Windows 8

Implement desktop virtualization

Implement application virtualization

Implement Bring Your Own Device or

similar self-service policy for enduserdevices and/or applications

Adopt online productivity apps, suchas Windows Office Live (Office365)

None of the above


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Companies allowing smartphone and

tablet adoptions

TechTarget 13

Which of these policies are you currently implementing or will implement in 2013?Check all that apply

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Allow users to buy their own laptopsor desktops for use on the corporatenetwork

Allow users to buy their own tablets

for use on the corporate network

Allow users to purchase their ownsmartphones

Allow users to select their ownapplications, such as Google Docs

Allow users to select their own dataprotection and transfer, such asDropbox

Allow users to use select their ownemail, such as Gmail


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Smartphones and Tablet implementation top

mobility initiative in 2013

TechTarget 14

Which of these mobility initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

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Smartphones

Tablet PCs

Mobile device management

Mobile security

Mobile enhancement ofcorporate data/applicatons

Mobile virtualization

None of the above


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Priorities Survey

Cloud Priorities

TechTarget


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Cloud Services spending increasing in strong

services oriented countries

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How is your adoption of cloud computing affecting your IT budget in 2013?

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IT services spending is increasing inabsolute dollars but not as a percentof the whole budget

IT services spending is increasing inabsolute dollars and as a percent ofthe whole budget

IT services spending is flat

IT services spending is decreasing


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SaaS and Managed Services top Cloud Services

TechTarget 17

Which type of cloud service providers are you considering working with in 2013?

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Pure--play cloud provider

Managed service provider

Telecommunications provider

Technology solution provider/VAR

Equipment vendor offering cloudservices

Systems integrator

Professional services organization

Specialty cloud provider (like Softwareas a Service)


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Growth in Cloud Services across Europe;

Regional focus differentiated

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Which of these external cloud services do you plan to use in 2013?

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Storage as a Service

Disaster Recovery/business continuity

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Database as a Service

Security as a Service

Testing and development

Collaboration

Hybrid cloud integration

Private cloud design and deployment

Data center as a Service


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Priorities Survey

Infrastructure Priorities

TechTarget


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Server Virtulisation by far the number one

infrastructure project in 2013

TechTarget 20

Which of these infrastructure projects will your company implement, at some level, in2013?

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Data center consolidation

Server virtualization

Disaster recovery/business continuity

Energy-efficient computing/sustainable orgreen IT

Create private (internal) cloud

Integrate with external cloud

Automating serverprovisioning/management

Migrate to cloud email

Upgrade to Windows Server 2012

Upgrade to vSphere 5.1

None of the above


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Storage virtualisation top initiative; Helping EU

compliance and cloud solutions

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Which of these primary storage initiatives will you company deploy in 2013?

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Storage virtualization

Data reduction in primary storage(deduplication, compression, etc.)

Cloud storage

Solid state storage

Storage for virtual desktops

Object storage

Scale-out NAS

Storage for big data

None of the above


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BYOD EU Policies driving adoption of backup

for virtual servers

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Which of these backup storage initiatives will you company deploy in 2013?

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Data deduplication for backup

Disaster recovery/businesscontinuity

New tape technologies (such asLTFS)

Backup for virtual servers

Cloud backup

None of the above


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Priorities Survey

Security/ Networking Priorities

TechTarget


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Data Protection top in every region; EU

regulations being implemented

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Which of these security initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

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Data protection

Network-based security

Application-based security

Identity and access Management

Security data management/analysis

Mobile endpoint security (for iPhones,Blackberries, etc.)

Virtualization security

Threat detection/management (anti-malware, etc.)

Vulnerability management(patch/configuration mgmt)

Cloud security


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Network Management in Emerging Markets;

Mobile Device Management across the board

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Which of these networking initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

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Integrated cellular and WLAN

Software-defined networking

Application delivery optimization (ADO)/WANoptimization

Unified communications/collaboration

Video conferencing

Network virtualization

Converged storage and data center networkfabric

Mobile device management for BYOD(enduser's smartphones, tablets, etc.)

Remote access/branch office connectivity

Network management

None of the above


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Ethernet far more advanced in Nordics than

rest of Europe

TechTarget 26

What Ethernet speeds are you currently

using? Check all that apply

What Ethernet speeds will you deploy

in 2013? Check all that apply

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90%

1 gigabit 10 gigabit 40 gigabit

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10 gigabit 40 gigabit 100 gigabit


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Priorities Survey

Big Data Priorities

TechTarget


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Software initiatives diverse in Europe; BI strong

in Nordics, EE and UK

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Which of the following software initiatives will your company deploy in 2013?

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Business intelligence/analytics/datawarehousing

Custom application development

Packaged business applications

Service-oriented architecture

Data governance/data quality

Advanced DBMS (such as in-memory,columnar, NoSQL)

Content management

Collaboration applications

Business process automation/businessprocess management

Corporate performance management

None of the above


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On premise still strong in Western Europe;

Cloud Services high in Rest of Europe

TechTarget 29

Which of the following deployment models will your company use in 2013? Check all

that apply.

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On premise software/hardware

On premise appliance

Public cloud infrastructure with oursoftware (packaged or custom)

Private cloud infrastructure with oursoftware (packaged or custom)

Software as a service (cloud

application)

Platform as a service

Mobile


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Big Data still in learning mode in Europe;

Strength in more advanced markets (UK+DACH)

What are your plans in 2013 for big data management and analytics?

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Continue our current big dataprogram

Expand our current big dataprogram

Start a big data program

Evaluate big data

No plans

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