Forrester's Forrsights For Business Technology

Understanding The Impact Of Technology On Business

Name of survey:	Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, Q3 2007
Product:	Forrester's Forrsights For Business Technology
Date of survey:	June 2007
Region:	North America and Europe
Respondents:	2,104

The purpose of this study was to analyze trends in hardware purchasing and technology adoption. The survey probed topic areas including: hardware budgeting, mobile devices, PCs and laptops, servers, server virtualization, systems management, storage, networks, data centers, disaster recovery and hardware related IT Services. Forrester surveyed 2,104 hardware decision-makers at North American and European companies. Of these, 67% were from North America and 33% were from Europe. Twenty percent of respondents were from companies with 6 to 99 employees, 18% were from companies with 100 to 499 employees, 14% were from companies with 500 to 999 employees, 20% were from companies with 1,000 to 4,999 employees, 17% were from companies with 5,000 to 19,999 employees and the remaining 10% were from companies with 20,000 or more employees. Twenty-eight percent of respondents were the company¿s senior-most IT decision-makers, 29% were executives in IT, and 43% were Managers of IT reporting to an Executive in IT. We screened all respondents for significant involvement in hardware purchasing and technology adoption decisions. WNS fielded the telephone-based survey from April ¿ June 2007 and motivated the respondents by offering them a summary of the results.

The documents and figures below summarize the findings from this research

Build Your Business's Mobile Strategy Around Device Management And Security
Benjamin Gray, July 2008

X86 Virtualization Drives New Buyer Behavior
Frank E. Gillett, May 2008

Consolidate Storage Vendors To Reduce Complexity
Andrew Reichman, April 2008

Global Software-As-A-Service Adoption
Ellen Daley, April 2008

Enterprise Data Center Electrical Efficiency
Christopher Mines, April 2008

2008 Trends In Backup And Data Protection
Stephanie Balaouras, April 2008

Problem Manager: A New IT Service Management Role
Evelyn Hubbert, March 2008

Data Center Automation Defined
Evelyn Hubbert, February 2008

The Benefits And Tradeoffs To Single-Sourcing PCs
Benjamin Gray, February 2008

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Open Systems Virtual Tape Libraries, Q1 2008
Stephanie Balaouras, January 2008

SRM Needs Services To Succeed
Andrew Reichman, January 2008