Forrester

Description

A quick look into the survey:

This forward-looking market research study about IT technology details PCs and systems management, servers and data centers, X86 server virtualization, and dives deeply into cloud computing trends. Hardware-related IT budget breakdowns and trends can also be explored through these survey results.

Methodology:

Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2012, was fielded to 2,330 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from small and medium-size business (SMB) and enterprise companies with two or more employees. This survey is part of Forrester's Forrsights For Business Technology and was fielded from June 2012 to August 2012. LinkedIn Research Network fielded this survey online on behalf of Forrester. Survey respondent incentives include gift certificates and research reports. We have provided exact sample sizes in this report on a question-by-question basis.

Each calendar year, Forrester's Forrsights For Business Technology fields business-to-business technology studies in more than 17 countries spanning North America, Latin America, Europe, and developed and emerging Asia. For quality control, we carefully screen respondents according to job title and function. Forrester's Forrsights For Business Technology ensures that the final survey population contains only those with significant involvement in the planning, funding, and purchasing of IT products and services. Additionally, we set quotas 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. Forrsights uses only superior data sources and advanced data-cleaning techniques to ensure the highest quality data.