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Dell tech survey: Digital leaders outgrow digital laggards
While the media spotlight has been gazing intensely on Dell Inc.’s merger-acquisition of storage giant EMC Corp., the company found time to quietly release its second annual Global Technology Adoption survey this week.
In the survey Dell draws a comparison between what it calls the “digital leaders” and “digital laggards” and the results are stark – the findings show that those companies which buy and implement new technologies like Big Data, cloud and mobility are experiencing rapid growth versus the laggards that prefer to stick with whatever they’ve got.
One interesting finding shows that some 82 percent of the 2,900 IT and business decision-makers in mid-market organizations who were surveyed now use the cloud in some form or another, though the survey doesn’t indicate what they’re using it for, nor how much they use. However, the survey did reveal that 55 percent of organizations are now using more than one type of cloud.
As to why some companies are still refusing to embrace new technologies like the ones mentioned above, they cite the costs and security concerns as the biggest barriers to adoption. Nonetheless, cost savings are actually one of the main benefits of using the cloud cited by those companies who’re using it (42 percent), followed by being able to get things done more quickly (40 percent) and better allocation of IT resources (38 percent).
Another interesting trend is that companies seem to be slowly shying away from the “bring-your-own-device” trend – Dell says only 28 percent of organizations allow employee-owned PCs and smartphones to access their cloud resources, down from 32 percent one year ago.
Of course, companies need to understand Dell’s purpose in producing this report – the idea is to encourage tight-wads out there to loosen up their purse strings and start spending on IT. Dell’s report follows a similar one by Hewlett-Packard Co. earlier this year, but it’s difficult to judge how successful the tactic is.
Dell’s full report can be viewed here.
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