SDDC Study: SDDC Goes Mainstream

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SDDC Goes MainstreamHyTrust 2016 Study and Survey on The Cloud and Software Defined Data Center

93%93% of IT Executives, Managers and Directors surveys said better security will help companies more quickly derive the obvious benefits -- including cost savings, agility and performance enhancements -- of SDDC.

Better Security will help SDDC

93%93% of IT Executives, Managers and Directors surveys said they felt that the benefits of moving to virtualized and cloud solutions are both undeniable and quantifiable.

Benefits of Cloud/SDDCUndeniable

88%88% of IT Executives, Managers and Directors surveys said optimal SDDC strategies and deployment can quantifiably drive up virtualization ratios and server optimization, and noticeably benefit the bottom line.

SDDC Optimization helps bottom line

94%94% of IT Executives, Managers and Directors surveys said current SDDC platforms and strategies ensure top-tier security meets their organizations' needs either ‘very well’ or ‘somewhat well’

SDDC Platforms & Strategies are On Track

• Technology Companies: 41% • Business Consulting /Mgt: 41% • Emergency Services: 34% • Fin Serv, Banking, Ins., Trading: 34% • Healthcare/Biotech: 29%

• Telecommunications: 28%

• Government and Defense: 26% • Legal/Law Enforcement: 21% • Recruitment and HR: 13% • Retail: 12%

Who’s Embracing SDDC the Fastest?

75% Plan to moveWorkloads to public cloud

Platforms being adopted32%Microsoft Azure

24%VmwarevCloud Air

22%Amazon AWS

14%Google Cloud

5%IBM Softlayer

2%Virtustream

Encryption Requirements

60% - Disaster Recovery60% - Test/Dev55% - Directory Services

Top 3 Workloads

What have you already virtualized?45%Mission Critical Servers

55%Active Directory/ Directory Services

55% Network

55%Storage

60%Test/Dev Servers

Top Cloud Migration Concerns

60%Data Breach

60%Security & Control

55%Monitoring & Visibility

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