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Thank you for participating in our survey. Please complete the following 23 questions about the use of cloud computing in your company. It should take take less than ten minutes of your time.

In return for your assistance, you will receive a summary of the research results, an invitation to join a webinar based upon the findings and a current User Deployment Report in our CloudScape research program.

All responses are of course confidential. Thank you in advance for your participation.

Cheers,

William Fellows
Principal Analyst
The 451 Group

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1. Name

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2. Job title

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3. Email address. (Please note we won't use your email address other than to send you a summary of the results).

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4. Company name

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5. Company headquarters

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6. Vertical market

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7. Which of the following ranges best describes your organization's revenue? (Select one)

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8. Number of employees

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9. What percentage of the company’s overall IT budget is dedicated to cloud computing?

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10. Outlook. How will your budget for cloud computing technology change in 2011 compared with 2010?

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11. Who, if anyone, is driving the adoption of cloud computing in your organization?

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12. Which type of cloud computing does the company use now? Check all that apply.

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13. Which type of cloud computing will the company use within the next 12 months? Check all that apply

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14. In the cloud stack, which services is the company using now? Check all that apply.

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15. In the cloud stack, which services will the company use within the next 12 months? Check all that apply

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16. What applications/workloads are running on cloud now? Check all that apply.

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17. What applications/workloads will run on the cloud within the next 12 months? Check all that apply.

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18. Drivers for cloud adoption. Please rank the following in terms of importance.

  Least important Important Most important
Cost reduction
Avoidance of capital expenditure
Flexibility in scaling IT up and down
Agility
Quicker time to value (market, results etc)
Quicker time to deliver services
IT staff already using cloud services
Reducing footprint – physical
Reducing footprint – carbon
Self-service IT delivery
On-demand access
Pay-as-you-go
Transparency of costs and chargebacks
Disaster recovery and business continuity
Open source

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19. Please rank the following inhibitors to using cloud.

  Not an issue Manageable Problematic
Regulatory compliance and data protection
Lack of IT security
Corporate governance
Internal resistance
Auditing
ISV software licensing
Data management
SLAs
Support for existing applications and infrastructure
Interoperability and portability
Vendor lock-in
On-boarding
Standards
Bandwidth
Threat to jobs
Loss of control
Uncertainties of the business model
Cloud vendor viability

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20. When it comes to the adoption of innovations in security, what do you consider your organization to be?

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21. Which of the following cloud computing vendors does the company currently use?

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22. Which of the following cloud computing vendors does the company expect to use in the next 12 months?

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23. Would you be prepared to take part in further surveys conducted by The 451 Group? We will not use your email and information for any other purpose.

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