Survey from AppDynamics AppSphere from enterprise IT buyers. Topics include big data analytics, cloud migration, and Docker/container solutions. Improving Operational Efficacy in an Organization Trumps All Other IT Initiatives 1) Nearly half (46%) of respondents said that Improving Operational Efficiency is the number one priority for their IT department within the organization 2) Of the same group, nearly 1/3 (29%) of respondents said Big Data Analytics was the number one priority for their IT department to deliver to their organization. Container Solutions Still Largely Unknown; not an IT priority 3) 3/4 (75%) of respondents said they have no plans to use a container Solution in the next 12 months or are not familiar with Container Solutions. 4) Just ¼(25%) of respondents indicated they had plans to use a container solution such as Docker in the next 12 months. Private Cloud Adoption has Slight Margin Over Adoption of Public Cloud 5) Over ¼ (25%) of respondents indicated that they are building new applications on a public cloud and 1/6(17%) are migrating existing applications to a public cloud. Compared to… 6) Over 1/3 (34%) of respondents indicated that new applications are being built on a private cloud and 1/5(19%) are migrating existing applications to a private cloud. Lack of Resources and Security Concerns Still Largest Obstacles for Mobile Deployment 7) Over half of respondents (51%) indicated a lack of mobile development resources and security concerns were the largest barriers to deploying mobile apps in their organization with 27% and 24% of the responses respectively. Gaining Business Insights from IT Operations a Highly Complex Task 8) Over half (52%)of respondents indicated that 3 components were necessary to gain business insights from IT operations: Application Transaction Analytics, log file analytics and clickstream analytics with Application Transaction Analytics being the most important of the 3.

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