2013 Cloud and IT MeteringSurvey Results

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A Sample of the Respondents

205 total responses from organizations such as…

Demographics

Less than 5021%

50-50019%

500-2,00018%

2,000-10,000

23%

Greater than 10,00019%

How many employees does your company employ?

Enterprise52%

Reseller18%

Government10%

Cloud/Data Center Operator

5%

Software Vendor5%

I don't know10%

Organization Type

Banking3%

Chemicals1%

Consumer Products

5%

Energy/Utilities3%

Financial Services

6%General Manu-

facturing11%

Government1%Healthcare

19%

Higher Education5%

Insurance2%

IT Services8%

Legal Services4%

Logistics/Transportation

3%

Medical Devices

1%

Minerals/Min-ing1%

Non-profit3%

Pharmaceu-ticals1%

Retail10%

Software vendor

1%

Telecommu-nications

5%

Other4%

Primary Vertical Industry

Demographics

Architect6%

Business Devel-

opment2%

CEO3%

CIO5%CISO2%CTO3%

Consultant4%

Engineer14%

IT Adminis-trator

2%

IT Manager19%

IT Director17%

IT Infra-structure Manager

3%

Owner2%

President2%

QA Manager

1%

Sales4%

Security Manager

1%

Sysadmin3%

Support5%

VP, Technology3%

Other2%

Job Title/Role

US80%

Canada5%

UK6%

Singapore1%

El Salvador0%

Egypt0%

France2%

India0%

Ireland0%

Switzerland1%

Finland0%

Japan1%

Sweden1%

Brazil0%

Country HQ

16% C-level, 41% Director or above

Infrastructure

1-1023%

10-10028%

100-50025%

500-200012%

2000+5%

I'm not sure6%

Approximately how many physical servers are running in your infra-

structure?

1-ten17%

10-10031%

100-50021%

500-200017%

2000+7%

I'm not sure7%

Approximately how many virtual machines are running in your in-

frastructure?

Physical/VM 1-10 % 10-100 % 100-500 % 500-2000 % 2000+ % I'm not sure %Grand Total

1-Ten 29 63% 16 35% 1 4610-100 4 7% 29 50% 18 31% 5 9% 1 2% 1 2% 58100-500 1 2% 17 33% 16 31% 16 31% 1 2% 1 2% 52500-2000 1 9 36% 9 36% 5 20% 1 4% 252000+ 4 36% 6 55% 1 9% 11I'm not sure 1 1 1 8% 10 77% 13Grand Total 35 17% 63 31% 44 21% 34 17% 14 7% 15 7% 205

Physical Machine-to-VM Ratios

Other

RHEV

Open KVM

None

Xen Open Source

Hyper V

Citrix Xen

Vmware Vsphere

3.4%

3.9%

4.4%

7.8%

8.3%

27.8%

28.3%

80.0%

Hypervisors in Use

Hypervisors and OS’s

44% using 2 or more hypervisors

z/OS

Other

Linux - Fedora

Linux - Debian

Linux - Other

Linux - Ubuntu

Mac OSX

HP-UX

IBM AIX

Linux - CentOS

Linux - RedHat Enterprise Linux

Windows Server

0.6%

1.0%

1.5%

1.9%

4.3%

6.2%

6.4%

7.4%

7.9%

7.9%

16.4%

37.5%

Server Operating Systems in Use

Cloud Usage

Yes 31%

No60%

I don't know9%

Are you using public cloud IaaS?

Yes 40%

No49%

I don't know12%

Are you using private cloud IaaS?

Yes 28%

No69%

I don't know2%

Using hybrid cloud?

Dimersion Data

Joyent

Bluelock

CSC

SoftLayer

Tier3

Virtustream

GoGrid

Terremark

Savvis

HP Cloud

None

Rackspace

Amazon Web Services

0.0%

0.0%

1.6%

1.6%

1.6%

1.6%

1.6%

3.1%

3.1%

4.7%

12.5%

21.9%

25.0%

50.0%

Which public clouds are you using?

Joyent

Virtustream

Abiquo

CA AppLogic

Eucalyptus

Cisco CIAC

CloudStack

None

HP Cloud Service Automation

OpenStack

Citrix Cloud Platform

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Vmware Vcloud Director

0.0%

0.0%

1.6%

1.6%

3.1%

6.3%

6.3%

9.4%

14.1%

14.1%

15.6%

15.6%

68.8%

Which private clouds are you using?

Cloud Usage

Other

Mission Critical

Backup

Production

Test/Dev

7.8%

20.3%

37.5%

62.5%

67.2%

Types of workloads deployed in public cloud

Other

Backup

Mission Critical

Test/Dev

Production

2.5%

39.5%

44.4%

74.1%

75.3%

Types of workloads deployed in private cloud

Cloud Benefits

Other

Business agility

Faster time-to-value

Scalability

Flexibility

Cost savings/lower TCO

4.7%

42.2%

56.3%

57.8%

59.4%

60.9%

Most Important Benefits Gained From Using Public Clouds

Business agility

Other

Faster time-to-value

Scalability

Cost savings/lower TCO

Flexibility

0.0%

4.9%

43.2%

55.6%

71.6%

72.8%

Most Important Benefits Gained From Using Private Clouds

2013 Expected Cloud Spending

Decrease by <5%

Decrease by 5-10%

Decrease by 10-20%

Decrease by >20%

Stay the same

Increase by <5%

Increase 5-10%

Increase 10-20%

Increase >20%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

10.9%

6.3%

21.9%

31.3%

29.7%

2013 Public Cloud Spending ExpectationsPercent of Total

Decrease by <5%

Decrease by 5-10%

Decrease by 10-20%

Decrease by >20%

Stay the same

Increase by <5%

Increase 5-10%

Increase 10-20%

Increase >20%

0.0%

1.2%

1.2%

1.2%

17.3%

8.6%

17.3%

24.7%

28.4%

2013 Private Cloud Spending ExpectationsPercent of Total

Public Cloud Concerns

Why is your organization NOT using public cloud today?

Yes11%

No43%

Under Considera-

tion47%

Does your organization plan to use the public cloud in 2013?

A sample of the verbatim responses:• Privacy, security, availability concerns• Cannot decide on which one• Not yet part of our strategy• HIPAA• Our CIO doesn’t trust the public cloud• Cost• Budget• We are a school and restricted with what can

be put on the cloud• Working on it for 2013• Not fully investigated• No current need• Significant existing investments in on-site

infrastructure• Our customers have restrictions that prevent

us from using a public cloud infrastructure• Security and control

Vendor viabilityControl

TrustPrivacy

ReliabilityRegulatory requirements

EvaluatingNo compelling need

Security

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

Why are you NOT using public cloud?

Private Cloud Concerns

Yes18%

No46%

Under considera-

tion35%

Does your organization plan to use private cloud in 2013?

Why is your organization NOT using private cloud today?

A sample of verbatim responses:• No need• Currently in development• Not interested at this time• Tools to automate are not yet ready• Provisioning process not hashed out.

So skill set issue.• Cost, budget• Knowledge and understanding of

benefits• Security• Just starting to investigate• Too early edge• Planning DR site• Very small operation…50 PC’s…all in

one office• That is so last year

Reliability

Lack of functionality

Internal limitations

Cost

Security

Don't know

Evaluating

No compelling need

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Why are you NOT using private cloud?

Metering

Yes39%

No50%

I don't know11%

Are you metering your IT infrastructure usage

today?On-premise

packaged software ap-

plication40%

SaaS/On-demand ap-plication

17%

Homegrown/custom de-veloped ap-

plication29%

Other14%

How are you metering?

Don't have the right software and/or tools34%

I can't use IT infra-structure consump-tion data

11%

I don't see the value in

metering consump-

tion45%

Other11%

Why are you not metering your IT infrastructure consumption?

IT metering is the process of gathering and analyzing IT infrastructure consumption, just like metering electric utility consumption with a meter today. IT metering enables organizations

to optimize costs and operational efficiency by:

• Normalizing IT resource consumption data from all infrastructure into one single unit of measure regardless of the location, operating systems, hypervisors, or cloud platforms for comprehensive, apples-to-apples analysis

• Identifying over-provisioned hardware and opportunities to eliminate waste• Pinpointing optimal utilization rates to save money and improve operational efficiency• Classifying workloads and matching them with the appropriate type of IT infrastructure

If you are interested in learning more about the survey data, about IT metering, or about 6fusion, please visit www.6fusion.com or email us at info@6fusion.com

What is IT metering?