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ing. Respondents said they would spend 12 percent said they would purchase a hosting 2013 and included 450 respondents from
SURVEY
percent of their 2014 cloud budget on web service.
North America. Respondents are among
hosting solutions.
Among those planning to purchase a the more than 4 million IT professionals in
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Managed services get a fair share managed service, IT professionals will Spiceworks and represent a variety of com-
respectively. These IT professionals will of 2014 IT budgets
spend an average of 17 percent of their pany sizes including small-to-medium busi-
spend an average of 19 percent of their Of the IT professionals who plan to managed services budget on storage/back- nesses as well as enterprises. Respondents
hardware budget on servers and 13 percent purchase managed services in 2014, 53 up/archiving services. Of those, 36 per- come from a variety of industries includ-
on networking equipment.
percent said they would purchase connec- cent will invest in a new storage/backup/ ing manufacturing, healthcare, non-profits,
Software investments account for nearly tivity/bandwidth services, 49 percent cited archiving service this year.
education, government, IT service provid- ers and finance.
one-third of annual IT budget
When asked what software IT profes- storage/backup/archiving services, and 47
Methodology
%
sionals were planning to purchase in 2014, The survey was conducted in November
For more visit www.spiceworks.com
60 percent said they expect to purchase
operating systems and productivity suites
for end-user environments. Fifty percent of
respondents are planning to purchase virtu-
alization solutions and 49 percent expect to
buy security software.
IT professionals will spend an average
of 22 percent of their 2014 software bud-
get on productivity suites, 21 percent on
operating systems, 15 percent on virtualiza-
tion solutions and 13 percent on security
products.
Among the IT professionals planning to
purchase virtualization, productivity, oper-
ating system, security or database software
solutions in 2014, an overwhelming major-
ity will upgrade or maintain existing appli-
cations. However, among those purchasing
new software in 2014, virtualization leads
the way with 39 percent of IT professionals
choosing to purchase a new offering.
Cloud services budgets focused on
existing services
As expected, the overwhelming majority
of IT professionals planning to invest in a
cloud solution will continue to purchase an
existing service. However, 32 percent expect HELPING YOU GET THERE. GREATAMERICA.
to purchase a new cloud-based productivity
suite and 31 percent are planning to deploy a
new online backup/recovery solution.
When asked which cloud services IT
professionals are planning to purchase in
2014, 49 percent said web hosting, 44
percent highlighted email hosting and 38
percent said they would be purchasing an
online backup/recovery product.
Among those planning to purchase a
cloud service in 2014, IT professionals
said they would spend an average of 15
percent of their cloud budget on online backup/recovery products and email host-
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