2013 IT Priorities LatAm - Final

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2013 Latin America

IT PrioritiesWhats driving IT managers technology

decisions

February 2013

450 respondents

TechTarget


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Key Takeaways

Latin America more optimistic than North America & Europe

Business Expansion is fueling spending growth

65% claim that recession is not affecting their business / IT spend

54% increasing IT services investment major opportunity for well

connected servicers and integrators Integration plans with off-premise cloud offerings strong.

1 in 5 implementing BYOD in 2013. 3 in 10 pursuing mobile endpoint

management for those devices.

BI/BA/DW driving significant spend in 2013, but advanced

technologies not garnering support.

Plans very strong for Tablet adoption outpacing North

America. Security less of a concern than other parts of the world.

TechTarget 2


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50% of respondents increasing IT budgets in 2013

TechTarget 3

How do you expect your 2013 budget for information technology todiffer from your 2012 budget?

Same22%

Increase by less than5%17%

Increase by morethan 5%

42%

Decrease by lessthan 10%

11%

Decrease bymore than 10%

8%

N=420


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Increasers lead decreasers 3:1

TechTarget 4

Which areas will your budget increase or decrease?

64%

29%55%

28% 27% 28%

-60%

-40%

-20%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

Hardware Cloudservices

Software Maintenance Staff Outsideservices

Increasing Decreasing

N=442


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Companies addressing specific key areas

throughout the year

TechTarget 5

Which best describes your department's focus in 2013?

Expand IT tosupport business

growth46%

Help the businessautomate more24%

Maintain servicelevels with flat

budgets12%

Selectivespending in a few

key areas

10%

Reduce spendingin IT8%

N=418


6/25

Recession still remains but half recovering or

were never stuck

TechTarget 6

Which of the following describes the effects of recession or recovery on your ITorganisation?

We never sufferedfrom the

recession34%

We're recoveringbut slowly

32%

We're back tonormal

21%

We're stillstuck in

recession13%

N=419


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Compliance and Consolidation the top broad

initiatives

TechTarget 7

Which of these broad initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

3%

5%

19%

19%

24%

25%

29%

34%

38%

45%

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

Don't know

None of the above

Outsourcing

Big data

Cloud computing using external providers

Private cloud

ITIL

Mobility

Consolidation

Compliance

N=408


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54% increasing IT services spend for 2013

TechTarget 8

How is your adoption of cloud computing affecting your IT budget in 2013?

IT services spending is

increasing in absolutedollars but not as a

percent of the wholebudget30%

IT services spending is

increasing in absolutedollars and as apercent of the whole

budget30%

IT services spending isflat

27%

IT servicesspending isdecreasing

13%

N=162


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Managed service provider and SaaS overwhelming

majority of the push in cloud services

TechTarget 9

Which type of cloud service providers are you considering working with in 2013?

11%

17%

23%

26%

27%

29%

36%

50%

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

Pure--play cloud provider

Professional services organization

Telecommunications provider

Equipment vendor offering cloud services

Systems integrator

Technology solution provider/VAR

Specialty cloud provider (like Software as aService)

Managed service provider

N=86


10/25

Storage moving to the cloud!

TechTarget 10

Which of these external cloud services do you plan to use in 2013?

12%

12%

14%

14%

21%

24%

33%

34%

35%

41%

50%

50%

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

Hybrid cloud integration

Private cloud design and deployment

Security as a Service

Data center as a Service

Testing and development

Collaboration

Database as a Service

Disaster Recovery/Business continuity

Platform as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Storage as a Service

Software as a Service

N=86


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Server virtualization still being implemented at

a high rate; private cloud starting to show up

TechTarget 11

Which of these infrastructure projects will your company implement, at some level, in2013?

8%

8%

11%

13%

14%

20%

26%

48%

50%

52%

0% 20% 40% 60%

Migrate to cloud email

Integrate with external cloud

Automating server provisioning/management

Upgrade to vSphere 5.1

Energy-efficient computing/sustainable or green IT

Create private (internal) cloud

Upgrade to Windows Server 2012

Disaster recovery/business continuity

Server virtualization

Data center consolidation

N=169


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Storage virtualization finally peaking;

consistent deployment with global trends

TechTarget 12

Which of these primary storage initiatives will you company deploy in 2013?

8%

16%

17%

18%

19%

23%

28%

46%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Object storage

Storage for big data

Cloud storage

Storage for virtual desktops

Scale-out NAS

Solid state storage

Data reduction in primary storage (deduplication,compression, etc.)

Storage virtualization

N=161


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Disaster recovery/business continuity leads

storage initiatives; consistent with global trend

TechTarget 13

Which of these backup storage initiatives will you company deploy in 2013?

14%

18%

36%

52%

61%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Cloud backup

New tape technologies (such as LTFS)

Data deduplication for backup

Backup for virtual servers

Disaster recovery/business continuity

N=195


14/25

Desktop projects low; migrate to Windows 7

less of a priority than global trend

TechTarget 14

Which of these desktop projects will your company do in 2013?

12%

18%

20%

23%

23%

24%

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

Adopt online productivity apps, such as Windows OfficeLive (Office365)

Migrate to Windows 8

Implement Bring Your Own Device or similar self-service policy for enduser devices and/or applications

Migrate to Windows 7

Implement desktop virtualization

Implement application virtualization

N=111


15/25

Consumerization and end user preferences

impacting purchase plans

TechTarget 15

Which of these policies are you currently implementing or will implement in 2013?Check all that apply

11%

13%

19%

32%

35%

42%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Allow users to select their own applications,such as Google Docs

Allow users to use select their own email, suchas Gmail

Allow users to select their own data protectionand transfer, such as Dropbox

Allow users to buy their own tablets for use onthe corporate network

Allow users to buy their own laptops or

desktops for use on the corporate network

Allow users to purchase their own smartphones

N=107


16/25

Data protection very high; network-based

security ranking second globally

TechTarget 16

Which of these security initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

17%

31%

31%

35%

40%

41%

43%

52%

53%

77%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

Cloud security

Security data management/analysis

Mobile endpoint security (for iPhones, Blackberries, etc.)

Virtualization security

Vulnerability management (patch/configuration mgmt)

Application-based security

Threat detection/management (anti-malware, etc.)

Network-based security

Identity and access Management

Data protection

N=128


17/25

BPM and custom application development

supporting cloud movement

TechTarget 17

Which of the following software initiatives will your company deploy in 2013?

8%

14%

17%

18%

21%

22%

34%

42%

45%

47%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Advanced DBMS (such as in-memory, columnar, NoSQL)

Content management

Corporate performance management

Data governance/data quality

Collaboration applications

Packaged business applications

Service-oriented architecture

Business process automation/business processmanagement

Custom application development

Business intelligence/analytics/data warehousing

N=209


18/25

Big Data plans in Latin America quite low

TechTarget 18

What are your plans in 2013 for big data management and analytics?

Continue ourcurrent big data

program15%

Expand ourcurrent big data

program12%

Start a bigdata

program12%Evaluate big data26%

No plans35%

N=209


19/25

Network Management leads focus in 2013

TechTarget 19

Which of these networking initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

9%

15%

24%

26%

26%

29%

31%

38%

42%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Software-defined networking

Application delivery optimization/WAN optimization

Integrated cellular and WLAN

Network virtualization

Converged storage and data center network fabric

Video conferencing

Unified communications/collaboration

Remote access/branch office connectivity

Network management

N=170


20/25

Moving to 10G Ethernet usage in 2013

TechTarget 20

N=170

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

1 gigabit 10 gigabit 40 gigabit 100 gigabit

Current ethernet speeds Deploying ethernet speeds


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Mobility getting strong support and investment

TechTarget 21

Which of these mobility initiatives will your company implement in 2013?

9%

21%

30%

31%

37%

43%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Mobile virtualization

Mobile security

Mobile device management

Mobile enhancement of corporatedata/applicatons

Smartphones

Tablet PCs

N=224


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Audience

Demographics

Priorities Survey

TechTarget


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Job Title

TechTarget 23

Which category best describes your title or role?

IT staff15%

Mid-level ITmanager

25%

Engineer/programmer

19%

Director/Sr. ITManager

18%

Analyst13%

Architect8%

CIO/CTO/VP2%

N=447


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Job Role

TechTarget 24

Which best describes the areas to which you devote most of your time?

5%

6%

9%11%

11%

12%

14%

17%

18%

21%

22%

28%

29%

38%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Storage

End-user computing/desktop and device management

Data backup/Disaster recovery

Compliance/corporate governance

Business intelligence/data warehouse

Application management

Networking

Security

Server management

Data center/infrastructure operations

Databases

Application development

Program or project management

General IT management

N=448


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Number of Employees

T hT t 25

How many employees does your company have?

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

N=270

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2013 IT Priorities LatAm - Final