OAK 40917 Business Startup Cloud Study Survey

Hagen/Sinclair Research is seeking Business, Technical Leaders and Technical Implementers from STARTUP companies participate in a PAID FOCUS GROUP about your organization's needs in the area of CLOUD COMPUTING and CLOUD SERVICES in the marketplace.

INCENTIVE: As a thank you for participating, those who complete the group will be paid $300.

DATE/TIME: The groups will take place May 4, 2017.

FORMAT: 2-hour focus groups.

If you are interested in participating, please provide the following information. If your answers pre-qualify you for the study, one of our recruiters will call you to complete the screening process.

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* 1. Demographics:

Name:

Company:

Occupation:

Address:

City:

State:

ZIP:

Cell Phone:

Email Address:

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* 2. Approximately how many employees work in your company, including all locations worldwide? (Your best estimate will do.)

2-5

6-10

11-25

26-50

51-100

101-250

251-500

501-1000

11,000 or more

Don’t Know

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* 3. What is the approximate annual revenue/turnover of your company, including all locations worldwide? (Your best estimate will do.)

None

< $1M

$1-2M

$2-3M

$3-5M

$5-10M

$10-25M

$25-50M

$50-99M

$100-250M

$250-500M

$500M-1B

>$1B

Don’t Know

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* 4. How long has your company been in business? (Your best estimate will do.)

Less than a year

1-2 years

2-3 years

3-5 years

5-10 years

More than 10 years

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* 5. Which best describes the funding stage of your start-up company? (Your best estimate will do.)

Self-funded or Bootstrap

Angel or Seed

Incubator or Accelerator

First Round / Series A

Secondary / Later Rounds

No Longer a Startup

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* 6. Which statement best describes your role in your startup company?

You are a business or technical leader, primarily responsible for the overall business or technical strategy of the company

You are a technical implementer, in a dev-ops role, or are an IT professional, primarily responsible for building product or IT

None of these roles apply to my job

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Please describe your role in a brief sentence or two.

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* 8. Which of the following statements best describes your role in determining which cloud services and service providers would be used?

You are solely responsible or have final authority for these decisions

You are head of a team responsible for these decisions

You are a member of a team responsible for these decisions

You influence these decisions but are not part of the decision-making team

You have no part in these decisions

Don't know

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* 9. Which statement best describes your level of knowledge in each of the following areas?

	Company’s Top Expert	Among the Most Knowledgeable in Your Company	In-Depth Technical Knowledge	Not an Expert, But Know Enough to Add Value to a Technical Conversation	Know Little or Nothing About It
Know which of your company’s applications or workloads are provisioned on public or hybrid cloud infrastructure	Know which of your company’s applications or workloads are provisioned on public or hybrid cloud infrastructure Company’s Top Expert	Know which of your company’s applications or workloads are provisioned on public or hybrid cloud infrastructure Among the Most Knowledgeable in Your Company	Know which of your company’s applications or workloads are provisioned on public or hybrid cloud infrastructure In-Depth Technical Knowledge	Know which of your company’s applications or workloads are provisioned on public or hybrid cloud infrastructure Not an Expert, But Know Enough to Add Value to a Technical Conversation	Know which of your company’s applications or workloads are provisioned on public or hybrid cloud infrastructure Know Little or Nothing About It
Know about public cloud infrastructure tools and technologies, such as provisioning/orchestration tools, security tools, etc.	Know about public cloud infrastructure tools and technologies, such as provisioning/orchestration tools, security tools, etc. Company’s Top Expert	Know about public cloud infrastructure tools and technologies, such as provisioning/orchestration tools, security tools, etc. Among the Most Knowledgeable in Your Company	Know about public cloud infrastructure tools and technologies, such as provisioning/orchestration tools, security tools, etc. In-Depth Technical Knowledge	Know about public cloud infrastructure tools and technologies, such as provisioning/orchestration tools, security tools, etc. Not an Expert, But Know Enough to Add Value to a Technical Conversation	Know about public cloud infrastructure tools and technologies, such as provisioning/orchestration tools, security tools, etc. Know Little or Nothing About It

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* 10. Please indicate your company’s current status regarding public cloud workload deployment.

All or almost all workloads are deployed on public cloud

Most workloads are deployed on public cloud

Workloads are evenly distributed between the public cloud and on-premises

Most workloads are deploy on-premises

All or almost all workloads are deployed on-premises

Don’t know

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* 11. What cloud service providers, if any, are you using today?

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft

Google

VMware

Rackspace

IBM

None

Don’t know

Other (please specify)

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* 12. What cloud service providers would you consider in the future?

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft

Google

VMware

Rackspace

IBM

Don’t know

Other (please specify)

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* 13. In one or two sentences, please describe how you currently use or plan to use public cloud infrastructure services.

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* 14. What one thing could a cloud provide to increase its value to you as a startup company and accelerate your use of their services?

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* 15. What best describes your company’s industry?

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* 16. How would you describe the IT services company you work for in a few words?

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* 17. Please provide your LinkedIn address if you have one.

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