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JOURNEY FROM VIRTUALIZATION TO PRIVATE CLOUDS FORRESTER CONSULTING STUDY COMMISSIONED BY WIPRO & CISCO ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE STEP FROM VIRTUALIZATION TO PRIVATE CLOUD? DO BUSINESS BETTER CONSULTING | SYSTEM INTEGRATION | OUTSOURCING TOP TECHNOLOGICAL PRIORITIES IN APAC IMPORTANCE OF VIRTUALIZATION & INFRASTRUCTURE CONSOLIDATION 62% Consolidate IT infrastructure via data center/server consolidation or virtualization 59% Maintain or implement infrastructure virtualization and automation as the primary implementation model CRITICALITY OF VIRTUALIZATION IN PRIVATE/HYBRID ENABLEMENT ACROSS APAC REGION Base: 140 Decision Makers Banking, Financial services and Insurance (BFSI) Retail and Wholesale Manufacturing Business Professional Services 97% 87% 83% 82% Find Out IaaS ADOPTION WILL CONTINUE TO GROW ACROSS THE APAC REGION ORGANIZATIONS SHIFTING TOWARDS PRIVATE / HYBRID CLOUD IMPLEMENTATIONS 25% 18% 25% 24% 21% 14% 17% 17% 18% 16% SaaS for horizontal business processes like CRM and HR IaaS, where the service may include virtual servers, compute, storage, backup or archiving SaaS for collaboration or email SaaS for industry-specific processes Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Implemented or expanding Planning to implement Base: 3,659 IT and business decision-makes in Asia Pacific COST REDUCTION WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY CLOUD DEMAND DRIVERS? IN INDIA 78% IN SINGAPORE 57% OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCES IN SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA 59% IN INDIA 58% Source: Transforming The Data Center — Navigating the Journey from Virtualization to Private Clouds, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco and Wipro, September 2013.
