All Posts Tagged With: "Survey"
David Strom writes in the New York Times about how to stop your commercially sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands:
AS more small businesses rely on e-mail and instant messaging for their communications, they would do well to use a number of inexpensive methods to preserve privacy and ensure that messages are read only [...]
Despite many high profile cases of unencrypted backup tapes going missing, more than a third of organizations still do not know if they should encrypt their backup tapes and half do not know where they would store their tape backup encryption keys. This is one of the alarming findings in the new 2008 Encryption and Key Management [...]
Continue ReadingIn the largest Hot Aisle survey to date, 6273 readers participated, we asked “Does your IT Department pay the electricity bill for IT Equipment?” Despite best practice advice from industry heavyweights like Will Forest at McKinsey & Company, more than half of polled readers answered no. A staggering 23% just didn’t know if IT picked up the [...]
Continue ReadingThe Hot Aisle brings you yet another survey of over 6700 readers who commented on the impact of the current banking crisis on their IT Investment plans. As expected many respondents (52%) are pulling back on investing in IT. Overall 69% of respondants reported an impact on spending plans.
Most interestingly a few (5%) are accelerating [...]
Three quarters (76.1 percent) of IT professionals in the UK do not feel guilty about carrying out personal tasks while they are at work, according to a survey undertaken by The IT Job Board The figure compares to 75.9 percent in Belgium and 81.6 percent in The Netherlands. This is the first time the online [...]
Continue ReadingConsumers are increasingly using electronic payments at the expense of cash and checks, according to a new nationwide consumer payment preferences study conducted by BAI and Hitachi Consulting. The research was sponsored by First Data Corporation and its STAR® Network, Harland Clarke, MasterCard Worldwide, Metavante, and PULSE.
The 2008 Study of Consumer Payment Preferences found that [...]
The results are just in from the largest survey we have ever hosted here on The Hot Aisle. A massive 3,700 readers took part answering the question “Is your company running a Data Center move or consolidation Project?”
82% of participants stated that they were either in the midst of a migration or were actively planning [...]
I read a cool article about some community action to deliver a green outcome:
Cobweb Solutions, has joined together with 58 customers to produce a total energy saving equivalent to a tonne of carbon, in just one night on 14th August. The CO2 saving is equivalent to the emissions generated by ten passengers on a return [...]
The latest IT Job Board’s skills in demand survey figures show that regardless of the credit crunch, jobs in the IT sector have remained static since the beginning of the year with a slight increase in a few positions. Key findings are as follows:
Demand for testing roles increased by 8.3 percent between Q1 to Q2
IT support, [...]
When I read the headline for this press release from The IT Job Board, I just about fell off my chair laughing. After reading through some of the finding though some things started to hit home.
Research conducted by online recruitment specialist www.theitjobboard.co.uk revealed that of 500 IT workers surveyed for a report on working hours, nearly half [...]
The Hot Aisle readership have reported that they have significant constraints on existing data centers with 56% reporting cooling constraints and a further 17% reporting more than one constraint.
Significantly only one reader reports space as a constraint which agrees with my hypothesis that there is plenty of Data Center space, just no M&E left.
We asked The Hot Aisle readers to tell us what they were doing with Storage Virtualization. Interestingly only just over one third of our readers have no plans for Storage Virtualization.
An interesting market opportunity?
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