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Summary Results | January 2018
IT Optimization Trends
Summary Results | January 2018
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Survey Summary
▶ Between October 2017 and January 2018, Gatepoint Research invited selected
executives to participate in a survey themed IT Optimization Trends.
▶ Candidates were invited via email and 100 executives have participated to date.
▶ Management levels represented are predominantly IT senior decision makers: 7% hold
the title CxO, 11% are VPs, 48% are Directors, and 34% are Managers.
▶ Survey participants represent firms from a wide variety of industries including business
and consumer services, financial services, healthcare, media, manufacturing (primary,
general, and high tech), mining, retail and wholesale trade, telecom services,
transportation, and utilities.
▶ Responders work for firms with a wide range of revenue levels:
▪ 55% work in Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1.5 billion;
▪ 18% work in Mid-Market or Large firms whose revenues are between $250 million
and $1.5 billion;
▪ 27% 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
IT decision makers must always stay ahead of the curve regarding increasing business
demands, constant security evaluations and changes, data management sprawl and
complexity, and cost containment. Optimizing the infrastructure is not simply a “nice to
have,” but a business imperative. What are the most important considerations when
considering infrastructure modifications?
This survey asks respondents to report:
▶ Which operating systems are included in their IT infrastructure, and what virtualization
technologies are they using, if any?
▶ How much data are they managing, and what challenges do they face day-to-day?
▶ What are their top three priorities when planning infrastructure changes or upgrades?
▶ Are they thinking about technology changes to improve or otherwise optimize their
infrastructure?
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What is your organization's approach to optimizing your
existing IT Infrastructure?
All but 8% of respondents value an upgrade approach to optimizing the IT infrastructure. 48% are balancing investments in new technologies with existing IT support, while 44% are replacing existing IT with new technology.
48%
44%
8%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Balancing investments in new
technologies with existing IT
Implementing new technology
while replacing existing infrastructure
Extending the life
of our existing systems
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What are some of your day-to-day challenges with your
infrastructure or workloads?
The top infrastructure/workload challenge is keeping up with security patches, say 70% of respondents. Other major challenges include compliance management and system issue tracking (47%) and IT’s slow response to business needs (45%).
70%
47%
45%
29%
24%
23%
19%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Keeping up with security patches
Managing compliance and having
an audit trail of system issues
Slow IT response to business needs
High enterprise storage costs
Limited scalability
High virtualization costs
Inflexible traditional storage appliances
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What are your highest priorities related to simplifying, improving
efficiency, or otherwise optimizing your existing infrastructure?
When considering infrastructure optimization, the respondents’ list of priorities are topped by these three: Upgrading security (51%), increasing efficiency and reliability (45%), and transitioning to cloud (44%).
51%
45%
44%
35%
34%
30%
26%
22%
21%
16%
6%
2%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Upgrading security
Increasing efficiency and reliability
Transitioning to cloud infrastructure
Automating management tasks
Standardizing platforms
Maintaining compliance
Integrating platforms
Refreshing or migrating storage
Expanding virtualized workloads
Unifying datacenter management
Moving from Unix to Linux
Modernizing a mainframe
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Which operating systems are part of your IT infrastructure?
The ubiquitous Windows occupies a place in the IT infrastructure of nearly all surveyed organizations, but by a wide margin over the rest, second place Red Hat Linux is integral to 58% of respondents’ IT infrastructures.
94%
58%
25%
23%
17%
14%
17%
16%
5%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Windows
Red Hat Linux
Oracle Linux
AIX UNIX
IBM Power
Ubuntu Linux
Solaris UNIX
SUSE Linux
System z
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Which virtualization technologies are you using?
VMware (vSphere or vCenter) commands a significant lead. It is used by 88% of respondents.
88%
37%
29%
8%
7%
4%
2%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
VMware vSphere or vCenter
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer
Red Hat Virtualization
Oracle VM Server
Other open-source KVM
N/A, we are not using
virtualization technologies
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What challenges do you face with your virtualized
infrastructure?
More than half (51%) of respondents say that the biggest challenge with their virtualized infrastructure is monitoring, managing and forecasting growth. 44% identified the licensing costs as a major challenge.
51%
44%
30%
23%
23%
17%
12%
14%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Monitoring, managing,
and forecasting growth
Licensing costs
Complexity/density/sprawl
Manual VM provisioning processes
Training and retention of resources
No self-service capability for end users
Lack of quotas and resource management
None of the above
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How much data (structured or unstructured) do you manage?
The surveyed organizations span the data management spectrum from a relatively small amount of data managed (15% manage 250TB or less) to a very large data management responsibility; 33% manage a petabyte of data, or more.
15%
18%
20%
24%
9%
14%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
250 TB or less 251 TB to 500 TB 501 TB to 999 TB 1PB to5PB
More than 5PB I don't know
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In what stage are your organization's plans to change or
optimize your existing infrastructure?
Moving forward with infrastructure optimization, Nearly three fourths of respondents are evaluating (25%), budgeting (12%) or already planning and speaking to vendors (37%).
Evaluating - considering
adopting new
technology
25%Budgeting - we have a
line item in our budget
12%
Planning - speaking
with potential vendors
37%
Already there -
we've met our IT
optimization goals
16%
No plans in the next 12
months
10%
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Profile of Responders:
Industry Sectors
Responders represent a wide variety of industries.
Mfg - General
16%
Financial Services
15%
Business Services
11%
Healthcare
11%
Mfg - High Tech
11%
Utilities
10% Wholesale
Trade
9%
Retail Trade
8%
Mfg - Primary
4%
Consumer
Services
1%Media
1%
Mining
1%
Telecom Services
1%
Transportation
1%Other
5%
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Profile of Responders:
Revenue
55% of those surveyed work in Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1.5 billion.
>$1.5billion
55%
$500 million - $1.5
billion
15%
$250 - 500 million
3%
<$250 million
27%
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Profile of Responders:
Job Level
66% of those surveyed hold director or executive level positions in their organizations.
CxO
7%
VP
11%
Director
48%
Manager
34%
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