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Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its new Data Center Deployment and SDN Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey, which explores the current state of the data center and North American enterprises’ plans to evolve the data center over the next 2 years.
ANALYST NOTE
“Software-defined networking (SDN) is real, and it’s here to stay,” notes Sam Barnett, directing analyst for data center and cloud at Infonetics Research. “Nearly 1/4 of the enterprises we interviewed for our new data center and SDN survey have already deployed SDN technology in their data centers, and 1/3 plan to do so by the end of next year. This is impressive given the nascent nature of most SDN technologies and the relatively sophisticated IT community required to implement them.”
DATA CENTER AND SDN SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Improving virtualization, security, and application performance are the leading drivers for investing in new data center facilities
- Cisco and IBM top the list of SDN and programmable network technology vendors installed and under evaluation among enterprises Infonetics surveyed
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Data center owner/operators are investing across the board; among
Infonetics’ survey respondents:
- 70% are increasing spending on storage
- 67% are increasing spending on cloud services
- 59% are increasing spending on physical servers
- While consolidation has been a hot topic in the data center industry, only 14% of survey respondents plan to consolidate their data centers in the next 2 years
SURVEY SYNOPSIS
For its new 34-page Data Center Deployment and SDN Strategies survey, Infonetics interviewed purchase-decision makers at 103 North American enterprises about their investment plans for data center hardware, management software, and cloud services now and in the next 2 years. Survey participants were asked about data center spending plans, investment drivers, technologies, and vendors, as well as drivers of and barriers to SDN and programmable networks. To buy the survey, contact Infonetics Sales: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.
RELATED RESEARCH
- Latest Infonetics Data Center and Cloud research brief: http://bit.ly/UhvgEC
- 16G Fibre Channel switch market is skyrocketing
- Double-digit recovery for WAN optimization in Q2; ADC growth rate slows
- Fibre Channel switch market to hit $2.7B by 2016, Brocade leads
- Virtual and data center security appliances to hit $4.4 billion by 2016; vendor battle looming
- Cloud and CPE managed security services forecast to hit $18 billion by 2016
- Enterprises plan 58% increase in data center security spending this year
UPCOMING RESEARCH
Download DATA CENTER AND CLOUD report highlights, tables of contents, and prospectuses at http://www.infonetics.com/login, or Infonetics’ Publication Calendar http://bit.ly/zwjcRs.
- Infonetics’ new 2013 research lineup
- 3Q12 Data Center Network Equipment Market Share and Forecasts
- 3Q12 SAN Equipment Market Share and Forecasts (Dec. 13)
- 3Q12 Total Data Center and SAN Equipment Pivot (Dec. 19)
- Cloud Service Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey (Dec.)
- Cloud Service Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey (Dec.)
- Data Center Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey (Dec.)
TO BUY REPORTS AND SURVEYS, CONTACT SALES:
N. America (West), Asia, Latin America: Larry Howard, larry@infonetics.com, +1 408-583-3335
N. America (East), Texas, Midwest: Scott Coyne, scott@infonetics.com, +1 408-583-3395
Europe, Middle East, Africa: George Stojsavljevic, george@infonetics.com, +44 755-488-1623
Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp
ABOUT INFONETICS
Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps clients plan, strategize, and compete effectively. View Infonetics’ About Us slides at http://bit.ly/QUrbrV.
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