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Data
Points
Data
By
Martin
Vilaboy
Numbers Worth Noting
Blocking & Tackling
Social media gets the buzz, but email still does all the
work. Online workers in the U.S. overwhelmingly site email
as being “very important” to their jobs versus just 4% who
say the same about social networks, according to a Pew
Research Center study.
35
Percentage of IT services today that are
delivered totally or partially by cloud,
according to a CDW survey. Of those, 54
percent migrated from traditional delivery.
Vendor Content Kings
Product brochures and white papers are considered
by B2B technology buyers as the vendor-produced con-
tent that is most influential toward a purchase, according
to a survey from Eccolo Media. The vendor content type
seen as being least influential on buying decisions
are tweets (4%).
Content Types Ranked as the Top Five Asset
Types Being Very Influential
Product brochures
39%
White papers
33%
Case studies/success stories
31%
Detailed technology guides
23%
Competitive vendor worksheets
22%
Video/multimedia files
17%
Webinars
16%
Source: Eccolo Media
Top of Mid-Market Minds
Cloud computing and mobility remain the top IT priori-
ties among mid-market firms in 2015, according to sur-
veys by Techaisle, but budget constraints and managing
that mobility top the list of challenges. The number one
“business issue” among mid-market firms, not surprisingly,
is reducing operational costs.
2015 Top 10 Mid-Market Issues, Priorities, Challenges
Top 10 Business
Issues
Top 10 IT Priorities
Top 10 IT Challenges
Reducing operational
costs
Cloud computing
Budget constraints
Increase profitability Mobility solutions
Excessive data growth
Increase business
growth
Server virtualization
Mobile device management
Improve quality of
products/processes Social media
Mobile security
Improve workforce
productivity
Collaboration
Data protection/recovery/BC
Managing inventory
effectively
Business intelligence
Implementing/accelerating
cloud computing
Creating innovative
products
Managed services
Regulatory compliance
Managing uncertainty VDI/DaaS
Data/application integration
Keeping pace with
competition
Big data
Energy efficiency and
monitoring
Government policies/
regulations
Converged infrastructure
Controlling cost/Justification
for IT investment
Source: Techaisle
Vendor Choice of CIOs Deploying SDN in 2015
Interaction Mechanism
77%
37%
33%
20%
17%
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Source: Retail Systems Research
Is Your Curr nt eCommerce Platfor
Source: Webtorials
UC and Voice Deployments, Now a
Average On-Net Service Provider
An off-premises
(e.g. outsourced operations)
packaged solution
Cisco
/Nicera
Juniper
Dell
HP
A shared service delivered
“via the cloud”
An on-premises “homegrown”
or customized
packaged solution
An on-premises
packaged solution
2014 In the
future for UC
2012 In the
future for UC
2014 Currently
for UC
2012 Currently
for UC
Retail Winners
Laggards
5%
17% 17%
18%
20% 19%
23%
0%
0%10% 20% 30%40% 50% 60%70%80% 90%100
Premises-based Cloud-Based Hybrid
N/A / Still Planning
14
16
18
VPN DIA EVPN EoMPLS
er city
24% 25% 32% 18%
25% 23% 34% 19%
65%
8% 19% 8%
59%
8% 24% 9%
s
Percentage of IT Operational Budget
08 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Source: Pew Research Center
Percent of working internet users who say each
is “very important” to doing their job ...
The internet
Landline phone
Cell or smartphone
Social networking sites
like Twitter, Facebook
or Linkedin
61%
54%
35%
24%
4%
10,000
The maximum theoretical
downlink speed, in Mbps,
expected for 5G wireless
technology, according to
GSMA. To put in perspective,
100 Mbps is the maximum
theoretical of standard 4G/LTE.
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