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Summary Results | January 2018
Trends in Next Generation Data Center
Infrastructure
Summary Results | January 2018
Copyright ©2017 Gatepoint Research. All rights reserved. This report is the sole property of Gatepoint Research and may not be used, reproduced or redistributed in any form including, but not limited to, print & digital form without express written consent of Gatepoint Research.
Survey Summary
▶ Between October 2017 and January 2018 Gatepoint Research invited selected
executives to participate in a survey themed Trends in Next Generation Data Center
Infrastructure.
▶ Candidates were invited via email and 80 executives have participated to date.
▶ Management levels represented are predominantly IT senior decision makers: 5% hold
the title CxO, 21% are VPs, 74% are Directors.
▶ Survey participants represent firms from a wide variety of industries including business
and consumer services, education, financial services, healthcare, media, primary and
general manufacturing, mining, retail and wholesale trade, telecom, transportation, and
utilities.
▶ Responders work for firms with a wide range of revenue levels:
▪ 60% work in Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1.5 billion;
▪ 19% work in Mid-Market or Large firms whose revenues are between $250 million
and $1.5 billion;
▪ 21% work in Small companies with less than $250 million in revenues.
▶ 100% of responders participated voluntarily; none were engaged using telemarketing.
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Executive Overview
With companies needing to deploy software more frequently than in the past, there’s
tremendous pressure on IT departments to instantly provision resources to get new
applications up and running quickly. Are IT organizations considering hyper converged
infrastructures to elevate business agility?
This survey asks respondents to report:
▶ Their opinion of hyper converged infrastructure technology.
▶ What vendors are included in their current infrastructure?
▶ What workloads do they run in the datacenter, and do they have an on-premise current cloud environment?
▶ How open is their organization to new technology and approaches?
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What is your opinion of hyper converged infrastructure?
While slightly more than one fourth of respondents are using HCI, 35% of respondents don’t know enough about it to have an opinion.
28%
19%
12%
6%
35%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
We're currently using HCI
Planning to move there; our on-prem workloads require it
It's worth considering, but currently skeptical
No plans to use this type of infrastructure; we run everything
on the cloud
Don't know enough about it
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How much of your job involves deploying or managing
infrastructure?
30% of respondents say a significant to major part of their job involves deploying or managing infrastructure.
I am just
peripherally involved
It’s a major
part of my job
27%
21%20% 20%
10%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
1 2 3 4 5
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How many vendors are part of your IT infrastructure?
The great majority of respondents use multiple vendors in their IT infrastructure; 44% use up to four vendors, and 41% report using five or more. Just 15% rely on a single vendor.
1 Vendor
15%
2 to 4 Vendors
44%
5 or more Vendors
41%
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What major IT projects are you driving within the next 18
months?
Moving workloads to the public cloud is the most common major IT project over the next year and a half. 57% of respondents identify it as a top initiative.
Data Center
consolidation
10%
Storage refresh
15%
Server refresh
11%
Cloud initiative (moving
workloads to public
cloud)
57%
Other
7%
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What workloads do you run in your data center?
Most commonly run in data centers are server virtualization and databases. Relatively fewer respondents run virtual desktops (60%) and Big Data apps (48%).
88%
86%
60%
48%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Server virtualization
Databases
Virtual desktops
Big Data applications
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What best describes your relationship with the application
owner?
More than half of the respondents serve the application owner in some capacity.
28%
53%
18%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
I am the app owner I directly serve the app owner I don't work with app owners
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Does your organization have an on-premises cloud
environment?
An on-premises cloud environment has been deployed to varying degrees of success by 48% of respondents’ organizations. Another 40% are moving to a virtualized environment.
15%
33%
40%
12%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
Yes, it works great!
Yes, but there's room for improvement
No, we are just about virtualized
No, we evaluated it but didn't go that way
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How open is your organization to considering new technology
or new approaches?
More respondents are open to new technologies or approaches than not. 52% qualified their organization as “open” to “very open”, while only 14% say they are slow or closed to new technologies.
15%
37%
32%
8%
6%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
Very open; our IT culture
is to push the boundaries
Open, but cautious; we have
a healthy desire to try what's new
Neutral; everything is decided
on a case-by-case basis
Somewhat negative; we are
slow to adopt new technologies
Closed; the culture of our
organization is very conservative
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Profile of Responders:
Industry Sectors
Responders represent a wide variety of industries.
Financial Services
15%
Mfg - General
14%
Mfg - Primary
13%
Business Services
11%
Wholesale
Trade
10%
Utilities
8%
Retail
Trade
7%
Consumer Services
6%
Mining
4%Transportation
4%
Education
3%
Healthcare
3%
Telecom Services
3%
Media
1%Other
10%
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Profile of Responders:
Revenue
60% of those surveyed work in Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1.5 billion.
>$1.5billion
60%
$500 million - $1.5
billion
16%
$250 - 500 million
3%
<$250 million
21%
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Profile of Responders:
Job Level
76% of those surveyed hold director or executive level positions in their organizations.
CxO
5%
VP
21%
Director
50%
Manager
24%
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