Business Data Services

Understanding The Impact Of Technology On Business

Name of survey:  Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2009
Product:  Business Data Services
Date of survey:  September 2009
Region:  North America and Europe
Number of respondents:  2,204

Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2009, was fielded to 2,204 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from SMB and enterprise companies with two or more employees. This survey is part of Forrester’s suite of Business Data Services studies. Forrester fielded the survey from July 2009 to August 2009. LinkedIn Research Network fielded this survey online on behalf of Forrester. Survey respondent incentives included gift certificates and research summaries. We have provided exact sample sizes in this report on a question-by-question basis. Forrester’s Business Data Services fields eight business-to-business technology studies in 19 countries each calendar year. For quality control, we carefully screen respondents according to job title and function. Business Data Services ensures that the final survey population contains only those with significant involvement in the planning, funding, and purchasing of IT products and services. Additionally, quotas are set for company size (number of employees) and industry as a means of controlling the data distribution and establishing alignment with IT spend calculated by Forrester analysts.

Survey Instruments:
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The documents below summarize the findings from this survey.

European Enterprises Versus SMBs: Disaster Recovery Patterns
Frank E. Gillett, Tim Harmon, December 2009
European Firms: Decision-Makers For Servers, Storage, And Systems Management Software
Frank E. Gillett, December 2009
Hardware Spending Plans And Priorities: North American SMBs
Frank E. Gillett, Tim Harmon, December 2009
The State Of Emerging SMB Hardware: 2009 To 2010
Tim Harmon, December 2009
The State Of Emerging Enterprise Hardware: 2009 To 2010
Frank E. Gillett, December 2009
Peer Adoption: The State Of Server Virtualization
Christopher Voce, November 2009
Client Management Software Adoption Trends, 2009
Benjamin Gray, November 2009