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The focus of this survey is on your most recent experience with different cloud solutions and vendors. The survey will take less than 15 minutes and the Fuld team thanks you very much.
Instructions: If you are an integrator/consultant or other third party service provider, answer the survey as it relates to your most recent engagement. If you are an IT decision maker or user, answer the survey as it relates to your own company’s recent experience. If you are in planning stages, answer based on your deployment expectations. |
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| First Name | | | | Last Name | | | | Position/Job Title | | | | Company | | | | Email | | |
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| Q1. What type of firm do you work for? |
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| Q2. What revenue-range does your firm fall in? |
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| Q3. What is the size of your global IT team? |
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| Q4. What is your rough estimate of your firm’s annual IT-spend as a percentage of annual revenue? |
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| Factors for Choosing Cloud Providers |
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| Q5. Now, let’s talk about Cloud companies, these are companies that provide (describe the range of services that define all the cloud companies). Which of the following Cloud companies are you aware of? |
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Q6. Below is a list of criteria in choosing a cloud solution for company. Using the rating scale of 1 to 5 (with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest) below, how do you rate each criterion in terms of importance?
Legend:
5 - Very important
4 - Important
3 - May or may not be important
2 - Somehow important
1 - Not important at all
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| Flexible Deployment and Connectivity | |
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| Support Services/Cloud Management | |
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| Elasticity | |
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| Purchase Options | |
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| Adaptability | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Upgrades and Innovations | |
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| Data Resiliency and Recovery | |
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| Scalability | |
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| Availability of tools | |
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| Cost | |
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| Security | |
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| Performance and Latency | |
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| Stickiness | |
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| Load Capability | |
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| Q7. Using the same set of criteria, can you please choose each criterion that describes a cloud vendor? Choose from the Cloud Company List below.
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| Q8. Who typically makes technology acquisition decisions within your company (OR in your client organization where you recently provide services, in case you are an IT Service Provider)? |
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| Q9. Which of the following cloud companies is the key provider of cloud services to your company (OR to your recent large client-engagement in case you are an IT Service Provider)? |
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| Q10. What other providers did you (OR your client organization, in case you are an IT Service Provider) consider when choosing a cloud provider? |
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| Q11. How long did it take you (OR your recent client, if you are an IT Service Provider) to do evaluation/proof of concept in the current solutions that you are using? |
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| IT Infrastructure and Cloud Services Used |
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| Q12. On average, what percentage of your IT infrastructure is in the cloud (e.g. in terms of solutions implemented)? |
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| Q13. How do you connect your on-premise infrastructure to the cloud? |
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| Q14. To what extent is integration with existing on premise or other cloud systems a consideration in your cloud adoption plans? |
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| Q15. Will a move to the cloud ultimately mean that your IT staff will need a different set of skills? (to be asked of end-user customers, not SIs) |
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| Q16. Which of these skills will be in greater demand after the move to cloud? |
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| Q17. What types of applications do you run in the cloud? |
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| Q18. What kind of pricing model are you currently using with your current provider? |
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| Q19. How much is your annual average expenditure for cloud services? |
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| Q20. How do you assure the security of your data in the cloud, whether at rest or in transit? |
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| Q21. Discovery of the Heartbleed bug once again raised concerns about the security of data in the cloud, especially those using SSL in securing data in transit, how did you respond to this discovery? |
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| Q22. Do you use open source technology in the cloud? |
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| Q23. If you are using open source technologies, please choose from among the list the services that you use. |
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| Q24. Rate the importance of using open source technology for your work (5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest)?
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| Q25. What percentage of the applications that you are currently using are open source? |
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| Q26. Which part/s of your architecture is using open source? |
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| Q27. Do you plan to port other parts of your infrastructure to the cloud? |
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| Q28. Do you plan to use open source technologies in the future (or if you are already, do you plan to use any other)? |
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| Q29. Are you looking for alternative cloud providers? |
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| Q30. Recently, Google has dropped the price of its cloud offerings to which AWS and Microsoft responded by offering discounts, would you consider switching providers if this trend continues? |
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| Q31. Rate your current cloud provider (5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest) in terms of satisfaction with its services.
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| Q32. What encouraged you to become part of our thought leadership community originally? |
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| Q33. How do you find the panel activities as of the moment? |
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| Q34. Would you like to suggest any activity that you are looking for in the panel? |
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| And on a Less Serious Note … |
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| Q35. As someone who helps clients work with the cloud tools and systems, what do you think your clients’ perception of “Cloud” is: |
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