This report is designed to provide infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to those of their peers. This report showcases 2014 hardware budget allocations and priorities to help you plan and justify your upcoming infrastructure investments. The data in this report is powered by Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2013, fielded to 2,306 hardware decision-makers located in Europe and North America. I&O executives should use this data — along with Forrester's infrastructure transformation playbook — to discover, plan, act on, and optimize their infrastructure strategies.