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5 Hot Spending Categories For Large Enterprises Budget areas with the greatest year-on-year increase, 2010 vs. 2009 (percent respondents) Virtualization software (42 percent) Servers (39 percent) Back-up hardware (34 percent) SANs (34 percent) Desktops/notebooks (31 percent)
5 Hot Spending Categories For Midrange Enterprises Budget areas with the greatest year-on-year increase, 2010 vs. 2009 (percent respondents) Servers (39 percent) Virtualization software (39 percent) Back-up hardware (35 percent) ERP apps (33 percent) SANs (32%)
Year-on-Year Expansions Large enterprises expanded these initiatives in 2010 (percent respondents) Infrastructure virtualization (46 percent) Infrastructure consolidation (46 percent) Green IT (36 percent) Unified Communications (32 percent) Service-oriented architecture (27 percent) Moving apps to SaaS (22 percent) App dev in the cloud / PaaS (20 percent)
Year-on-Year Expansions Midrange enterprises expanded these initiatives in 2010 (percent respondents) Infrastructure virtualization (34 percent) Infrastructure consolidation (34 percent) Green IT (20 percent) Moving apps to SaaS (17 percent) Unified communications (16 percent) App dev in the cloud / PaaS (15 percent)
Operating System Installations SIGNIFICANT deployments of operating systems are underway at these large enterprises in 2010 (percent respondents) Windows (65 percent) Mac OSX (13 percent) Linux (19 percent) Non-Linux Unix-Like (10 percent)
Operating System Installations For these large enterprises, most or all OS installations are UPGRADES in 2010 (percent respondents) Windows (59 percent) Mac OSX (22 percent) Linux (29 percent) Non-Linux Unix-Like (35 percent)
Operating System Installations SIGNIFICANT deployments of operating systems are underway at these midrange enterprises in 2010 (percent respondents) Windows (53 percent) Mac OSX (10 percent) Linux (20 percent) Non-Linux Unix-Like (6 percent)
Operating System Installations For these midrange enterprises, most or all OS installations are UPGRADES in 2010 (percent respondents) Windows (55 percent) Mac OSX (20 percent) Linux (30 percent) Non-Linux Unix-Like (30 percent)
Top 10 Large Enterprise Cost Overruns Budget versus actual spending, 2009 (percent over budget) Virtualization software (4.6 percent) Application platforms (2.6 percent) Firewalls/VPNs (2.5 percent) Collaboration apps (2.4 percent) ERP apps (2.3 percent) BI/data mining apps (2.3 percent) DBMs (2.2 percent) BPM/BPI apps (2.1percent) SFA/CRM apps (1.8 percent) Security management (1.7 percent)
Top 10 Midrange Enterprise Cost Overruns Budget Versus Actual Spending, 2009 (percent over budget) Data loss prevention (5.5 percent) Firewalls/VPNs (5.2 percent) Access control (4.5 percent) Backup hardware (4.3 percent) Authentication management (4.1 percent) E-mail/Web gateways (4.1 percent) Virtualization software (3.8 percent) Private clouds (3.7 percent) Security management (3.7 percent) Encryption (3.6 percent)
10 Most-Missed Budget Targets, 2009 Percentage of large enterprises that spent MORE than budgeted in the following categories: Servers 36 percent Desktops/notebooks 30 percent Technical training 21 percent Virtualization software 44 percent IT strategy consulting 23 percent Systems integrators/outsourcing 28 percent HR applications 24 percent Printers 14 percent BPM/BPI apps 32 percent ERP apps 30 percent
10 Most-Missed Budget Targets, 2009 Percentage of large enterprises that spent LESS than budgeted in the following categories: Servers 23 percent Desktops/notebooks 27 percent Technical training 35 percent Virtualization software 11 percent IT strategy consulting 29 percent Systems integrators/outsourcing 22 percent HR applications 25 percent Printers 35 percent BPM/BPI apps 16 percent ERP apps 18 percent
10 Most-Missed Budget Targets, 2009 Percentage of midrange enterprises that spent MORE than budgeted in the following categories: Servers 35 percent Back-up hardware 42 percent Wireless equipment 27 percent Telecom equipment 30 percent BI/Data mining apps 31 percent SFA/CRM apps 37 percent Voice/data services 22 percent Technical training 23 percent Network management 28 percent E-commerce apps 28 percent
10 Most-Missed Budget Targets, 2009 Percentage of midrange enterprises that spent LESS than budgeted in the following categories: Servers 20 percent Back-up hardware 11 percent Wireless equipment 25 percent Telecom equipment 11 percent BI/Data mining apps 20 percent SFA/CRM apps 13 percent Voice/data services 27 percent Technical training 26 percent Network management 21 percent E-commerce apps 20 percent
5 KEY TAKEAWAYS 1. When revenue is shrinking, larger companies AVOID CapEx risks, such as buying new hardware. 2. Midrange firms tend to see the BENEFITS of operational investments fairly quickly, even during economic downturn. 3. Computing, data center and storage hardware spending were frequently UNDERBUDGET in large organizations. 4. Conversely, computing, data center and storage hardware spending was OVERBUDGET in midrange enterprises. 5. Large enterprises did not overspend on SECURITY as much as their midrange counterparts did in 2009 and 2010.
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