Quick Pulse:Private Cloud #2

July 2014

Presented on behalf of:

Dell

MARKETING RESEARCH

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

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Sample Method

Survey Goals

Field WorkThis survey was fielded from July 28, 2014 to July 30, 2014

Total Respondents

52 qualified completes

Collection Online Questionnaire

Number of Questions

5 (excluding screeners and demographics)

Audience To complete this survey, respondents had to be involved in the purchase process for private and/or hybrid cloud solutions and in an organization that is in the Business application stage in at least one cloud environment

The purpose of this survey was to better understand your organization’s experience in using the private and/or hybrid cloud.

METHODOLOGY & RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

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Total Respondents Organization Size

52

RESPONDENT PROFILE

3

(NET) IT Management 63%CIO, CTO 27%VP 4%Director 23%Manager 8%Supervisor 2%

(NET) Business Management 21%CEO, Chairman, President 10%COO 2%VP 2%Managing Partner 4%Director 2%Manager, Supervisor 2%

(NET) Other 15%Consultant 12%Other (Non-Manger) 4%

10,000+ employees 17%

1,000 – 9,999 13%

Less than 1,000 employees

69%

Top Represented Job Titles Top Represented Industries

Technology/Computer related

Healthcare

Professional Services

Financial Services & Insurance

Government (Federal, State, or Local)

29%

15%

12%

6%

6%

* Full breakdowns can be found on slides 12 & 13

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S1: In which of the following ways are you involved in the purchase process for private and/or hybrid cloud solutions at your organization? Base: 52 qualified respondents

In this survey we refer to the following definitions of private and hybrid cloud.

Private Cloud – Infrastructure provisioned solely for a single organization. For the purposes of this survey we are focusing on private clouds that are hosted and managed internally versus by a third party.

Hybrid Cloud – A composition of private and public clouds which remain unique entities but are bound together, offering the benefits of multiple deployment models.

RESPONDENT PROFILE

4

Involvement in Purchase/Management Process for Private and/or Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Determine the business need

Determine requirements

Evaluate solutions

Recommend and select vendors

Make the business case

Approve/authorize

90%

81%

92%

85%

77%

64%

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KEY FINDINGS

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• When it comes to private cloud deployments, three-quarters of respondents have completed application planning and with both private and hybrid, over a third have completed cloud strategy.• Only 14% have completed convergence for private cloud deployments.

• During the largest cloud deployment, design usually takes months while procurement, deployment, and testing may take either weeks or months. • It’s usually unlikely for any stage to take over a year and even in some

few cases, procurement and deployment could be done in days.

• Most organizations take the cloud deployment approach that includes a modular platform building blocks that can integrate with multiple vendors.• Integrated solutions from a single vendor are used by 39% of

organizations.

• Three out of five respondents say their company is extremely/very successful at avoiding vendor lock-in.

• Three quarters of organizations feel they are extremely/very successful at ensuring the security of the private and/or hybrid cloud environments.

• Top factors most achieved with cloud deployments are improved ability to scale up or down to accommodate business needs as well as increase IT efficiencies.• Enabling self-service provisioning is the factor least likely to be achieved

with cloud deployments.

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SURVEY RESULTS

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Stages CompletedPrivat

e Cloud

Hybrid

Cloud

Application planningdeciding which applications and workloads are best suited for the cloud 75% 64%

Cloud strategydeveloping a cloud strategy and choosing technologies and deployment models 65% 67%

Business applicationsRunning mission-critical business applications such as database, collaboration, CRM, etc., in the cloud

81% 65%

Server virtualizationVirtualizing the environment to prepare for cloud 65% 48%

Convergencecombining physical compute (processor or server hardware), networking, storage and/or unified management on one single box

48% 42%

None of the above 12% 15%

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Three-quarters of respondents have completed application planning when it comes to private cloud deployments and over a third have completed cloud strategy for both private and hybrid

cloud deployments.

S2: Which of the following stages has your organization completed with respect to private and hybrid cloud deployments? Base: 52 qualified respondents

Note: required to be in Business application stage in at least one cloud environment

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Q1: Thinking about your largest private and/or hybrid cloud deployment effort, how much time was needed for the following stages? Base: 52 qualified respondents

Time needed for each stage of Cloud Deployment

6%

37%

48%

8%2%

During the largest cloud deployment, design usually takes months while procurement, deployment, and testing may take either

weeks or months. It’s usually unlikely for any stage to take over a year.

8

Design

19%

35%

33%

12%2%

Procurement

15%

37%23%

21%

4%

Deployment

4%

42%

40%

10%4%

Testing

Days

Weeks

Months

One year or more

Don’t know

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Q2: Which of the following private and/or hybrid cloud deployment approaches did your company take? Base: 52 qualified respondents

Cloud Deployment Approaches Taken

39%

60%

2%

Integrated solutions from a single vendor

Don't know

Modular platform

building blocks that can

integrate with multiple vendors

Most organizations take the cloud deployment approach that includes a modular platform building blocks that can integrate

with multiple vendors.

9

Extremely successful

Very successful

Somewhat successful

Not very successful

Not at all successful

Don't know

23%

37%29%

4% 4% 4%

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Three out of five respondents say their company is extremely/very successful at avoiding vendor lock-in.

Level of Success in Avoiding Vendor Lock-In

Q3: With respect to your private and/or hybrid cloud deployments, how would you rate your company’s level of success in avoiding vendor lock-in? Base: 52 qualified respondents

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Three quarters of organizations feel they are extremely/very successful at ensuring the security of the private and/or hybrid

cloud environments.

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Ensuring the security of the private and/or hybrid cloud environment

Ensuring policy controls and IT gov-ernance

Implementing a private and/or hybrid cloud solution that integrates with the

existing IT environment

Implementing the building blocks for private cloud

Estimating resource consumption and capacity requirements to scale-up/scale-

down

Convergence

29%

29%

27%

25%

23%

21%

46%

40%

38%

40%

35%

35%

19%

21%

31%

33%

31%

27%

6%

8%

4%

2%

6%

12%

2%

6%

6%

% Extremely/Very successful

56%

58%

65%

75%

69%

65%

Important Steps When Implementing Private and/or Hybrid Cloud

Extremely Successful Very successful Somewhat successful Not very successful Not at all successful

Q4: How would you rate your company’s success in the following areas with respect to your private and/or hybrid cloud deployments? Base: 52 qualified respondents

Factor Achieved with Cloud Technology

Improve ability to scale-up/scale-down to accommodate business needs

Increased IT efficiencies

Add reliability and security

Lower TCO with optimized application delivery and increased automation

Reduce provisioning times

Improve SLAs

Ensure customers/employees are provided the right service levels

Enable self-service provisioning

Other

81%

79%

76%

69%

67%

52%

50%

33%

5%

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Improved ability to scale up or down to accommodate business needs as well as increase IT efficiencies are both top factors most

achieved via private and hybrid cloud deployments.

Q5: Which of the following benefits has your company achieved via private or hybrid cloud deployments? Base: 52 qualified respondents

Private Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

74%

82%

65%

59%

56%

44%

56%

41%

6%

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DEMOGRAPHICS

Number of Employees Company Industry

10,000 or more

7,500 - 9,999

5,000 - 7,499

2,500 - 4,999

1,000 - 2,499

500 - 999

250-499

Less than 250

17%

2%

4%

4%

4%

6%

10%

54%

Technology/Computer related

Healthcare

Professional Services

Financial Services & Insurance

Government (Federal, State, or Local)

Manufacturing: Discrete or Process

Life Sciences- Pharmaceuticals, Biotech

Nonprofit

Education

Energy, Gas & Oil

Engineering/Construction

Aerospace/Defense

Communications/Media

Consumer Products

Entertainment

Other

29%

15%

12%

6%

6%

4%

4%

4%

4%

4%

4%

2%

2%

2%

2%

2%

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A majority of respondents come from organizations with less than 250 employees but from various industries.

D1: Approximately how many people are employed in your entire organization or enterprise? (Please include all plants, divisions, branches, parents and subsidiaries worldwide.) ; D3: Which of the following best describes your organization's industry or function? Base: 52 qualified respondents

CIO, CTO

VP

Director

Manager

Supervisor

27%

4%

23%

8%

2%

CEO, Chairman, President

COO

VP

Managing Partner

Director

Manager, Supervisor

10%

2%

2%

4%

2%

2%

ConsultantOther (Non-Manager)

12%

9%

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Job Title

The IT Management job area is most represented, particularly by CIO/CTO and Director job titles.

21% 63

%

15%

Business Management IT Management

Other

D2: Which of the following best describes your title within your organization?Base: 52 qualified respondents

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