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Servers and Virtualization Study: Wave 14
Big Data and Business
Analytics
This report captures IT professionals’ adoption plans, projected spending, vendor short-lists and
considerations in decision-making for ‘big data’ and business analytics, covering big/unstructured data
analytics and real-time, in-memory analytics.
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About TheInfoPro’s Servers and Virtualization Study
TheInfoPro’s Servers and Virtualization Study takes an in-depth look at key industry trends and tracks the
performance of individual vendors. Now in its 10th year, this study was finalized in August 2014 and is based on
192 interviews.
TheInfoPro’s methodology uses extensive interviews with a proprietary network of IT professionals and key
decision-makers at large and midsize enterprises. Each interview explores several fundamental areas, including
the implementation and spending plans for technologies, evaluations of vendors observed from business and
product perspectives, macro IT influences transforming the sector, and factors affecting decision processes.
Results are collated into comprehensive research reports providing business intelligence in the form of
technological roadmaps, budget trends and vendor spending plans and performance ratings.
Examples of Vendors Covered in the Study
BMC Software
Brocade
CA
Cisco
Citrix
Dell
EMC
Emerson
HP
IBM
Microsoft
Novell/Attachmate
Oracle
Puppet Labs
Red Hat
ServiceNow
SolarWinds
Symantec
Teradata
Uptime Software
VCE
Veeam Software
VMTurbo
VMware
About the Authors
Peter ffoulkes
is Research Director for Cloud Computing, Enterprise Platforms and Infrastructure Software. On the leading
edge of IT transitions since 1980, ffoulkes has focused his vendor experience on the technologies required to build
datacenter environments that are the foundation of cloud-ready datacenters for enterprise, service providers and
high-performance computing. His research focuses on how consumers and vendors manage the transition from static and siloed IT
organizations to dynamic, service-based environments that empower responsiveness to rapidly changing business conditions.
Nikolay Yamakawa
is an Analyst at 451 Research, where he identifies trends, relationships and synergies within and across
key IT sectors, including servers and virtualization, cloud computing, storage, networking, information security and
convergence. Prior to joining 451 Research, Nikolay served as a Research Manager for four years at International Access
Corporation's Washington DC and Tokyo offices. He also worked at Nomura Research Institute in New York and at
PricewaterhouseCoopers in Moscow.
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Guide to Servers and Virtualization Study Reports
A wave of research produces a series of reports that are published approximately in this order:
Source: Servers & Virtualization – Wave 14 |
2014/2015 SERVERS AND
VIRTUALIZATION OUTLOOK AND
METRICS
IT professionals describe how 2014 and 2015 look for budgets, projects and pain points, with time series charts to give perspective to the coming year. Also benchmarking organization efficiency, this report contains metrics about the number of internal employees, IT structure changes, and how efficiency is measured.
BIG DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS
This report captures IT professionals’ adoption plans, projected spending, vendor short-lists and considerations in decision-making for ‘big data’ and business analytics, covering big/unstructured data analytics and real-time, in-memory analytics.REFERENCE TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP
Allowing comparison of all 26 technologies tracked in the study, this high-level reference contains the Technology Heat Index, the Adoption Index, leading vendor tables, overall technology roadmap and spending charts. It also indicates what is included in the more detailed reports based on each technology segment covered in the study.SERVERS AND VIRTUALIZATION
INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY
ROADMAP
Capturing IT professionals’ adoption plans, projected spending and vendor short-lists, the in-depth roadmap covers 10 technologies, including: x86 rack/blade servers, micro servers, Linux OS software, converged infrastructure, database, business analytics and cloud appliances. This report was previously called the Server Hardware Technology Roadmap.
SERVERS AND VIRTUALIZATION
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP
Capturing IT professionals’ adoption plans, projected spending and vendor short-lists, the in-depth roadmap covers 16 software technologies including: system monitoring, VM monitoring, CMDB, policy-based provisioning, service catalogs and commercial or open source cloud orchestration stack.
VENDOR VULNERABILITY AND
SPENDING
This report allows you to compare IT professionals’ spending intentions and loyalty ratings for 10 vendors.VENDOR MARKET WINDOWS AND
RATINGS
TheInfoPro’s unique Market Window uses IT professionals’ ratings of vendors on 14 separate criteria to calculate scores for Vendor Promise and Vendor Fulfillment, allowing comparison of vendors’ effectiveness at strategy, marketing, delivery and execution.
CUSTOMER ASSESSMENTS FOR
INDIVIDUAL VENDORS
Summarizing IT professionals’ assessments for each of eightspending, vulnerability and ratings on 10 categories. Time series are included. vendors, this report profiles individual vendors based onNARRATIVES
Compiling open-ended commentary from in-depth interviews with IT professionals, you hear the direct ‘voice of the customer’ discussing technology, the industry and the future of this sector.© 2014 451 Research, LLC. www.451research.com
Table of Contents
About TheInfoPro’s Servers and Virtualization Study
2
Principal Findings
5
Big/Unstructured Data Analytics
6
Real-time/In-memory Analytics
11
Appendixes
Methodology, Sample Variation, Demographics
19
How to Interpret the Data
21
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