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April Survey: Managing Growth/Scaling - IBM Power
TechPulse is TechChannel’s sponsored monthly micro-survey program designed to capture real-time
sentiments and trends from IBM Power professionals.
1.
What is your primary role in your organization?
IT executive
Enterprise architect
Systems programmer
Capacity planner
Developer
IT operations
Procurement/vendor management
Other (please specify)
2.
Which type of workload is growing fastest in your organization?
AI/ML inferencing
AI/ML training
Core transaction processing
Batch processing
Data warehousing/analytics
API and integration services
Dev/Test
Streaming/real-time processing
Security/compliance workloads
Other (please specify)
3.
What is your organization’s primary strategic path for scaling core applications?
Scale in place: Increase MIPS/MSUs on-premises
Hybrid cloud: Keep core applications on-premises while extending/integrating with cloud services
Replatform/rehost to cloud: Migrate core applications off-premises to a cloud environment
Other (please specify)
4.
How confident are you that your current backup and recovery infrastructure will support your organization’s application and data growth?
Very confident — built for scale
Somewhat confident — but we'll need upgrades
Not confident — we're already hitting limits
We have no clear growth plan for backup infrastructure
5.
Which of the following best describes a painful data protection challenge(s) your organization faces as your workloads grow? (select all that apply)
Security issues in my backup infrastructure
Backup storage capacity is regularly exhausted
Complexity of managing multiple backup tools
Incomplete alerting, reporting, and backup compliance
6.
Would you like to be entered into a drawing for a $50 Visa gift card for completing this survey? (If "yes," please provide name and email below.)
Yes
No
7.
Please provide your name and email address
