Companies Unprepared for Data, Cloud Challenges
Essential Ingredient
71% of survey respondents say IT infrastructure plays an important role in enabling competitive advantage or optimizing revenue and profit.
Spending Spree
62% expect to increase IT infrastructure investment within the next 18 months, and more than one in 10 plan to do so by more than 10%.
Stale Routine
Only 4% feel that IT is strictly a necessary tool to perform day-to-day business and doesn’t differentiate IT’s role.
Ill-Prepared: Social Misfit
Just 9% say their existing IT infrastructure is “fully” prepared to address the increasing popularity of social media and collaborative platforms.
Ill-Prepared: Stormy Situation
Only 7% feel their existing IT infrastructure is fully prepared to respond to cloud computing demands.
Ill-Prepared: Grounded
A mere 4% say their existing IT infrastructure is fully prepared to deal with the proliferation of users’ mobile, smart devices.
Ill-Prepared: Big Problem
None of the survey respondents could say that their existing IT infrastructure was fully prepared to integrate, leverage and analyze the increasing quantity of big data.
Consensus Effort40% feel that non-IT business functions will be involved in making infrastructure decisions on needs such as devices, security and cloud computing.
Departmental Silos
Just 30% believe that they are effectively collaborating with business to provide IT infrastructure solutions.
Top Security Threats
Rogue admins and privileged insiders: 48%, Social media activities: 41%, Back-doors or hidden functions inserted by firmware, middleware, toolkits and other products from the supply chain: 38%, Malware insertion or latent product vulnerabilities: 38%, Advanced persistent threats: 36%