Bill Lundell

• Research Briefs
  Apr 30, 2012

  Research Brief: Solid-state Storage Usage at Financial Services Organizations

  Data storage technology is widely considered to be a strategic asset within the financial services sector, so it makes sense that these organizations have been at the forefront of solid-state storage technology adoption. ESG research finds a number of significant differences in the solid-state usage profile of financial services organizations compared with their counterparts in other industry verticals including penetration of solid-state storage across the industry, initial deployment drivers, and current implementation/form factor choices.

• Research Briefs
  Apr 23, 2012

  Research Brief: The Burden of e-Discovery: Global Perspective

  More and more enterprise companies are in-sourcing e-discovery, yet the market's maturity curve is weighted heavily toward serial litigants, those in highly regulated industries, and, especially, U.S. companies. To determine where the market is headed now, ESG examined recent data that sheds light on the burden of e-discovery on IT across different types of companies.

• Research Briefs
  Apr 6, 2012

  Research Brief: Virtualized Computing Infrastructure Preferences

  Businesses have an increasing array of choices when deploying infrastructure to support virtual server/private cloud deployments. Integrated solutions-which ESG calls Virtual Computing Infrastructure-enable the aggregation of compute, storage, and network assets into pools of homogenous resources that are dynamically managed and automatically provisioned according to business requirements.

• Research Reports
  Mar 31, 2012

  Research Report: 2012 Public Cloud Computing Trends

  In order to assess IT spending priorities over 2012 and beyond, ESG surveyed 614 senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organizations' 2011 IT spending as well as their 2012 IT budget and spending plans at either an entire organization level or at a business unit/division/branch level. A subset of ESG's questions in this survey focused on respondents' usage of and plans for public cloud computing services.

• Research Briefs
  Mar 9, 2012

  Research Brief: 2012 Security Spending Trends

  ESG research indicates that most midmarket and enterprise organizations will increase security spending in 2012. Spending in traditional areas like network security and desktop security will remain dominant, joined in 2012 by an increased emphasis on mobile device security. Many organizations want to add security staff within IT, but will likely find a shortage of available talent, presenting an opportunity for security services providers.

• Research Briefs
  Mar 7, 2012

  Research Brief: 2012 Networking Spending Trends

  According to ESG’s 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey, more than half of all organizations will increase networking spending in the upcoming year. Survey respondents’ highest spending priority is, once again, network security, followed by network management and WAN optimization. Furthermore, more than one-third of organizations adding IT staff in 2012 also plan to hire additional network administrators, making networking one of the top five areas of demand for IT hiring in 2012.

• Research Briefs
  Mar 6, 2012

  Research Brief: 2012 Storage Infrastructure Spending Trends

  According to ESG’s 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey, 90% of midmarket and enterprise organizations will increase or maintain their spending on storage infrastructure in 2012. In addition to continually improving economic conditions, the continued uptick in spending is attributable to the struggle organizations face managing and protecting data. As such, it is not surprising that some of the higher priority areas for 2012 storage investment are precisely those that can help users to more efficiently accommodate data growth.

• Research Briefs
  Feb 29, 2012

  Research Brief: 2012 IT Staffing and Skills Trends

  The healthy outlook for overall IT spending in 2012 means that the majority of organizations will increase IT staff levels this year. Organizations with plans to hire are more likely to engage in new strategic projects as opposed to focusing mostly on tactical maintenance of existing infrastructure. In addition to being the top overall 2012 hiring priority, information security is the area in which the most IT organizations report having a problematic shortage of skills.

• Research Reports
  Jan 31, 2012

  Research Report: 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey

  In order to assess IT spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 614 senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with their organizations’ 2011 IT spending as well as their 2012 IT budget and spending plans at either an entire organization level or at a business unit/division/branch level.

• Research Reports
  Jan 31, 2012

  Research Report: Data Center Networking Trends

  The primary objective of this ESG research study was to survey networking professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e., 1,000 employees or more) in order to better understand the changes taking place in their data centers, how these changes were impacting their network infrastructure and operations, how they were addressing data center networking challenges in the short-term, and what they were planning for data center networking as they looked to future business and technical requirements.

• Research Briefs
  Jan 9, 2012

  Research Brief: Reference Research: Total Production Databases

  ESG Reference Research includes data-centric reports and briefs designed for market intelligence, marketing, product marketing/management, engineering, and corporate strategy professionals at IT vendor organizations. ESG’s Reference Research content is designed to assist in market segmentation, market sizing, product requirements analysis, and other business planning exercises. This Reference Research brief focuses on the total number of production databases supported by large midmarket and enterprise organizations and includes analysis of production databases by number of employees, total amount of database data, total annual revenue, and industry.

• Research Briefs
  Jan 4, 2012

  Research Brief: Reference Research: Database Data Volume Trends

  ESG Reference Research includes data-centric reports and briefs designed for market intelligence, marketing, product marketing/management, engineering, and corporate strategy professionals at IT vendor organizations. ESG’s Reference Research content is designed to assist in market segmentation, market sizing, product requirements analysis, and other business planning exercises. This Reference Research brief focuses on the total amount of data stored in databases at large midmarket and enterprise organizations and includes analysis of database data by number of employees, number of production databases, total annual revenue, and industry.

• Research Briefs
  Dec 29, 2011

  Research Brief: Remote Knowledge Worker Trends

  Recent ESG research indicates that the remote worker population will grow significantly over the next three years. Why? Organizations see ROI on remote worker programs in terms of cost reduction, higher employee morale, and improved productivity. While these are attractive benefits, ESG believes that today’s laissez-faire remote worker programs have plenty of room for improvement from both a business and technology perspective.

• Research Reports
  Nov 21, 2011

  Research Report: Solid-state Storage Market Trends

  In order to assess the market trends involving the current usage and potential adoption of solid-state storage, ESG recently surveyed 223 IT decision-makers responsible for data storage at enterprise-class (i.e., 1,000 or more employees) organizations that either currently use solid-state storage or are considering using the technology. Respondents were familiar with their organization’s current storage environment as well as forward-looking strategies involving solid-state storage technologies.

• Research Reports
  Oct 31, 2011

  Research Report: Application Retirement Trends

  In order to assess current data management trends, as well as plans for the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 270 North American IT professionals representing large midmarket (500 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations. Respondents were familiar with their organization’s current database and legacy application environment, as well as forward-looking plans application retirement.

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