research report - ixia · document no.: 915-3528-01 rev b march 2015 - page 3 executive summary...

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 3

Survey Conclusions ................................................................................................................... 4

Detailed Survey Responses ...................................................................................................... 9

Methodology and Scope .......................................................................................................... 36

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Executive Summary

Ixia, an international leader in application performance and security resilience technology, conducted a survey to better understand how visibility and monitoring solutions are used within the modern enterprise. While information exists on virtualization technology, very little information is available on how it is actually being used and the techniques and technology to ensure that it is completely integrated into the corporate network structure.

During this survey, there were two areas of emphasis. The first portion of the survey focused on understanding the usage of virtualization technology. The second area of emphasis was on understanding the monitoring of virtualized environments and the visibility components used within them. This report presents the research we uncovered.

The report features several key findings including the following:

Virtualization technology use could create an environment for hidden dangers within enterprise networks. This is based upon how that technology is currently used by businesses.

There is a definite potential for hidden blind spots within the modern enterprise based upon visibility technology in use

Virtualization technology adoption will continue at its current pace for the next 2 years

Visibility and monitoring adoption will continue to grow at a consistent pace

These four key findings show that while virtualization technology has become an important component for data centers, there are clear risks emerging that will need to be controlled by data center managers and IT staff.

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Survey Conclusions

Ixia conducted a survey to better understand the state of virtualization technology. While traditional surveys have focused on hypervisor types, market share, and growth rates, the primary purpose for this survey was to discover if, and how, visibility and monitoring solutions are being merged with virtualization technology.

This survey uncovered the following key findings, which we will discuss in more detail in the following pages:

1. Virtualization technology use could create an environment for hidden dangers within enterprise networks, based upon how that technology is currently used

2. There is a definite potential for hidden blind spots within the modern enterprise virtual data center

3. Virtualization technology adoption will continue at its current pace for the next 2 years

4. Visibility and monitoring adoption will continue to grow at a consistent pace

Figure 1: Survey Conclusions

1. Virtualization Technology Contains Hidden Dangers

To come to the conclusion that server virtualization technology holds hidden dangers, the responses to the following questions (listed in the Detailed Responses Section) were analyzed: Question 5, Question 7, Question 10, Question 13, and Question 17. Question 7 (What, if any, are your company’s primary virtualization concerns?) focused on asking what the respondents top virtualization concerns are. Over 1/3 were concerned ability their ability (or lack thereof) to monitor the virtual environment. Question 10 (Does your company monitor the virtual network and application performance on the virtual network like it does on your physical network?) showed that only 37% of the respondents are monitoring their virtualized environment the same as their physical environment. This means that the virtual monitoring capabilities being used are different from the practices used on the physical environment. When coupled with the response to Questions 7 and 13, this indicates that lesser monitoring capabilities are being deployed in the virtual environment. Question 13 (Do you know what a virtual network tap is?) showed that 51% of respondents were unaware of what a virtual tap is and therefore don’t understand how that technology could be used to access inter- and intra-VM traffic. Question 17 (Does your company run “business critical applications” in your virtualized server environments?) indicated that over 2/3 of the respondents are using virtual technology for business-critical applications. And finally, question 5 (Is your company planning to change its use of virtualization in the next 24 months?) showed that 65% of businesses plan to expand their use of virtualization technology even though, as we saw earlier, appropriate monitoring practices aren’t in place to support this.

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The resulting surface-level conclusion is that very limited monitoring practices are being put into place for virtual environments. Without proper visibility into this virtual environment, you are literally blind to the east-west traffic that is being passed between virtual machines. If this technology is then being used for business-critical functions, you have a situation where you have a lot of risk. Security issues, like the Crisis malware, might be operating in the background and you know nothing about it. You could also have performance problems happening within the virtual environment that you are unaware of because they have not yet reached a critical state to be noticed by your other monitoring practices yet. Once other monitoring practices, usually implemented at the top of rack (ToR) or end of row (EoR) capture data on performance issues, the problem has become a full-blown issue that needs immediate attention.

Figure 2: Server Virtualization Holds Hidden Danger for Data Centers

2. Definite Potential for Hidden Blind Spots within the Virtual Data Center

The second conclusion from this study is that the potential for network blind spots is real. This conclusion was reached by studying the answers to the following questions: Question 9, Question 10, Question 13, Question 14, Question 15, Question 18, Question 19, and Question 20. Question 9 (Network monitoring, application performance monitoring and security monitoring are key, strategic capabilities for our IT organization?) yielded both good news and bad news. Over 2/3 of the respondents said that they agree that monitoring is important. One caveat though is that the sentiment for the European and Middle East region was lower (approximately 17%) than other parts of the world, specifically the Americas. Even Asia Pacific was 11% higher than Europe and the Middle East.

As mentioned earlier, Question 10 (Does your company monitor the virtual network and application performance on the virtual network like it does on your physical network?) showed that only 37% of the respondents are monitoring their virtualized environment with the same processes as the physical environment, with usually lesser capabilities in the virtual environment. This means that there is a potential for key monitoring information to not be

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captured for the physical environment, which could lead to security, performance, and/or compliance issues for the business.

As stated already in the first conclusion, Question 13 (Do you know what a virtual network tap is?) showed that 51% were unaware of what a virtual tap is and therefore did not know how they could use it to access the inter- and intra-VM traffic. Question 14 (Do you know what a network packet broker is?) revealed that 55% of respondents don’t know what a network packet broker is or how it can help improve their network visibility. This indicates an awareness gap of mainstream monitoring and visibility technology and its ability to alleviate concerns around security, performance, and/or compliance issues.

Question 15 (For virtual network monitoring, which of the following solutions do you use?) showed that almost 2/3 (61%) of respondents did not understand the monitoring technology in use for their virtualization environment and must not be involved in monitoring it. This introduces a clear probability for a lack of consistent monitoring processes across the network and poses a huge potential for something to be monitored improperly, especially as the network changes. In fact, Questions 19 (What organization within your company is responsible for managing the server virtualization environment?) and 20 (What organization within your company is responsible for managing and monitoring the virtual switch / network in the virtualized data center?) went on to show that only 22% of business have the same staff for monitoring and managing the virtual technology. Question 18 (Does your company monitor critical data such as personally identifiable information (PII) housed within your virtualized data center?) further revealed that only 42% of businesses monitor PII on their networks. This trend was a little higher for Asia Pacific (at 50%), almost exactly the median for the Americas (41%) and 4% lower for the Europe and Middle East (38%).

Taken together, these responses indicate the high probability to hidden data, i.e. blind spots, existing on typical data networks due to inconsistent monitoring practices, lack of monitoring practices altogether in several cases, and the typical lack of one central group responsible for collecting monitoring data.

Figure 3: A High Propensity for Network Blind Spots Exists

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3. Virtualization Technology Adoption will Continue at Its Current Pace for the Next 2 Years

The survey confirmed that virtualization technology adoption will continue to grow at a consistent pace for the next 2 years. This conclusion was based upon responses to Question 2, Question 3, and Question 5. For question 2 (Server virtualization is a strategic priority for your company’s IT organization), 80% of businesses see virtualization technology as a strategic priority. In fact, 53% think it’s very important. Question 3 (Where has your company deployed server virtualization?) showed that almost ¾ of businesses are using virtualization technology in their production environment. The Americas and the Europe/Middle East had an adoption rate of 75% while Asia and the Pacific region lagged a little further behind at 61%. The average adoption rate across regions for test lab environments was 65%. The responses to question 5 (Is your company planning to change its use of virtualization in the next 24 months?) indicated that 65% of businesses intend to increase their use of virtualization technology in the next 2 years. The Asia Pacific region should see higher growth as the respondents indicated a projected adoption rate 70%. This probably correlated to the fact that Asia Pacific is currently utilizing virtualization technology at a lower rate than other regions, as previously shown from the responses to question 3. If this data holds true, then all three regions should have an approximately equal deployment of virtualization technology in two years.

4. Visibility and Monitoring Adoption will Continue to Grow at a Consistent Pace

The last conclusion is that visibility and monitoring adoption will continue to grow. This conclusion is easily based upon the answers to Questions 9 and 12. Question 9 (Network monitoring, application performance monitoring and security monitoring are key, strategic capabilities for our IT organization?) showed that 82% of the respondents agree that monitoring is important. The regional breakdown of the responses were as follows: 87% for the Americas, 81% for Asia Pacific, and 70% for Europe and the Middle East. Question 12 (Is your company planning to change its monitoring capabilities in the next 24 months?) showed that 38% of businesses plan to increase their monitoring capabilities over the next 2 years and that another 31% plan to maintain current levels for their monitoring capabilities.

In addition to the key findings, other useful insights are available from the survey data. These are summarized as follows:

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Survey Result Highlights

1. 76% of businesses are using virtualized servers – The Americas are the highest at 80% and Asia Pacific is lowest at 70%. (Question 1)

2. 80% of businesses see virtualization technology as a strategic priority. 53% think it’s very important. (Question 2)

3. Almost ¾ of businesses are using virtualization technology in their production environment – Americas and Europe and the Middle East are about 75% while Asia Pacific is further behind at 61%. 65% are using in their test labs. (Question 3)

4. 16% of businesses are heavily virtualized with more than 80% of their workload on virtual servers – Asia Pacific is slightly higher. (Question 4)

5. 65% of businesses intend to increase their use of virtualization technology in the next 2 years – Asia Pacific is higher at 70% (since they are utilizing less right now). (Question 5)

6. 19% of businesses plan no increase in their use of virtualization technology in the next 2 years. (Question 5)

7. The main enterprise driver for virtualization is cost reduction. (Question 6)

8. Top 4 virtualization concerns – data security, skills to manage the data center, inability to monitor virtualized applications, recurring cost of virtualization software. Almost 1/3 are concerned about their lack of ability to monitor their virtual environments. (Question 7)

9. Virtualization drivers, concerns, and hypervisor type trends are consistent across the world. Only major difference is the lack of ability and skills is a 16% less concern for Asia Pacific. (Questions 6, 7 and 8)

10. 82% agree that monitoring is important – 87% for Americas, 81% for Asia Pacific, 70% for Europe and the Middle East. Seems to be an awareness gap in this area for Europe and the Middle East (17 point difference from Americas) (Question 9)

11. 38% of businesses plan to increase their monitoring capabilities over the next 2 years. (Question 12)

12. Only 37% of businesses currently monitor their virtualized environment like the physical environment – Asia Pacific is actually 9 points higher. (Question 10)

13. 34% of businesses don’t monitor the virtualized like the physical environment. (Question 10)

14. 51% of respondents don’t know what a virtual tap is – the Americas was less educated while Asia Pacific was more educated. (Question 13)

15. 55% of respondents don’t know what a network packet broker/monitoring switch is – Europe and the Middle East is less educated while Asia Pacific is more educated. (Question 14)

16. Only 20% of businesses use a virtual tap – Asia Pacific is 29%, Americas is 21%, Europe and the Middle East is 7%. Asia Pacific and Americas use virtual taps 3 to 4 times more than Europe and the Middle East. (Question 15)

17. Slightly more virtual SPANs are in use than virtual taps – 21%. (Question 15)

18. Almost 2/3 (61%) of respondents did not understand the monitoring technology in use for their virtualization environment. (Question 15)

19. Only 22% of businesses have the same staff monitor and manage the virtualization technology. (Questions 19 and 20)

20. Only 6% of companies have the same team monitor the physical and virtual environments. (Question 20)

21. Over 2/3 use virtualization for business-critical applications – Asia Pacific is 13% lower. (Question 17)

22. Only 42% of businesses monitor personally identifiable information (PII) – Asia Pacific is 8% higher than this, Europe and the Middle East is 4% lower, Americas is about 41%. (Question 18)

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Detailed Survey Responses

These results were compiled on December 1, 2014.

1. Does your company use server virtualization solutions?

Value Count Percent

Yes 510 76.0%

No 97 14.5%

Don't know 64 9.5%

At this point, all surveys for “No” and “Don’t Know” respondents were completed. Only those that answered “Yes” proceeded on with the survey. Of those respondents, not all of them answered every question. The exact number of respondents is included with each question.

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2. Server virtualization is a strategic priority for your company’s IT organization?

Value Count Percent

Strongly Agree 203 52.7%

Agree 110 28.6%

Somewhat Agree 33 8.6%

Neutral 23 6.0%

Somewhat Disagree 1 0.3%

Disagree 5 1.3%

Strongly Disagree 2 0.5%

Don't Know 8 2.1%

Statistics

Unanswered 287

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3. Where has your company deployed server virtualization?

Value Count Percent

Test Labs 250 65.3%

Internal IT production data centers 280 73.1%

Customer facing, external data centers 172 44.9%

Other 9 2.4%

Don't Know 21 5.5%

Statistics

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Open-Text Response Breakdown Count

Cloud 1

DIN Cloud (Cloud Provider) 1

Mobility Packet Core, Enterprise Ethernet 1

NFV 1

Product Development 1

Testing Platform 1

Desktop 1

Private cloud 1

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4. What percent of your workloads are virtualized?

Value Count Percent

1 - 10% 26 6.8%

11 - 20% 37 9.7%

21 - 30% 46 12.0%

31 - 40% 41 10.7%

41 - 50% 19 5.0%

51 - 60% 26 6.8%

61 - 70% 26 6.8%

71 - 80% 33 8.6%

81 - 90% 33 8.6%

91 - 100% 28 7.3%

Don't Know 68 17.8%

Statistics

Unanswered 289

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5. Is your company planning to change its use of virtualization in the next 24 months?

Value Count Percent

Planning to increase virtualization deployments 249 65.2%

No changes planned 73 19.1%

Planning to reduce virtualization deployments 4 1.1%

Don't Know 56 14.7%

Statistics

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6. What drivers are behind your company’s use of server virtualization?

Value Count Percent

Disaster recovery functionality 164 42.8%

Server and licensing consolidation 170 44.4%

Operational efficiency cost savings 287 74.9%

Reduction of hardware related capital expenditure 277 72.3%

Data center power and cost reduction 195 50.9%

Improved ease of management 215 56.1%

Performance improvements 132 34.5%

Don’t know 19 5.0%

Other 6 1.6%

Statistics

Unanswered 289

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R & D for our customers 1

Testing 1

Creating cloud/leveragable solutions 1

Layering on PaaS services 1

Revenue generator by creating products around it in HW and SDDC 1

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7. What, if any, are your company’s primary virtualization concerns?

Value Count Percent

Recurring cost of virtualization software 118 30.9%

Security of data in a virtualized environment 185 48.4%

Inability to effectively monitor virtualized applications and inter-VM traffic 121 31.7%

Ineffective back-up capabilities 67 17.5%

Skills to effectively manage a virtual data center 144 37.7%

Ability to demonstrate regulatory compliance 63 16.5%

None 32 8.4%

Don’t know 46 12.0%

Other 14 3.7%

Statistics

Unanswered 290

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Application Performance Management 1

Hardware emulation 1

Immature software 1

Licensing complexity 1

Low performance 1

Performance 1

R & D for our customers 1

Ramp up for the next big thing 1

Reliability 1

SW migration from dedicated (bare metal) HW to virtualized platforms 1

Testing Virtualized elements & Interfaces, Getting the five 9s reliability, Performance & Reliability 1

Using it to create secure, affordable service offerings 1

Vendor licensing policies on virtual infrastructure 1

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8. What virtualization / hypervisor solutions does your company use?

Value Count Percent

VMware 301 78.6%

Microsoft 116 30.3%

Citrix 87 22.7%

Oracle 50 13.1%

Red Hat 67 17.5%

Parallels 10 2.6%

Other 31 8.1%

None 2 0.5%

Don't Know 36 9.4%

Statistics

Unanswered 289

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AWS 1

Debian 1

FusionSphere 1

Ganeti 1

Huawei cloud 2

IBM LPARs 1

IBM power 1

KVM or KVM on OpenStack 10

LPAR 1

LXC 1

Mainframe 1

Openflow/ NetConf for SDN 1

Open source 1

OpenStack Orchestration 5

Proprietary 1

Proxmox 1

Solaris 1

Synnefo 1

Virtualbox 3

VMware 1

XEN 1

z/Linux 1

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9. Network monitoring, application performance monitoring and security monitoring are key, strategic capabilities for our IT organization?

Value Count Percent

Strongly Agree 139 46.8%

Agree 104 35.0%

Somewhat Agree 24 8.1%

Neutral 14 4.7%

Somewhat Disagree 1 0.3%

Disagree 6 2.0%

Strongly Disagree 3 1.0%

Don't Know 6 2.0%

Statistics

Unanswered 375

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10. Does your company monitor the virtual network and application performance on the virtual network like it does on your physical network?

Value Count Percent

Yes 111 37.4%

No 101 34.0%

Don't Know 85 28.6%

Statistics

Unanswered 375

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11. If so, please list the monitoring tools your company uses for network and application performance monitoring.

Count Response

1 Appneta

1 Argent

1 AWS

1 Bespoke

2 BMC Patrol

2 CA monitoring tools

2 CONFIDENTIAL

2 Cacti

2 Compuware tools

1 DCNM

1 Endace

1 Empirix

1 Erspan

1 ExtraHop

1 F5

1 FireEye

1 Fixstream

1 Fluke NTM

1 Geoprobe

2 HP

2 IBM suite

1 Icinga

1 Idk

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Count Response

7 Internally Produced

1 IP-Monitor

1 Ixia

1 LAN Sweeper

1 Magellan’s

1 Manage engine

1 mrtg

4 Nagios

2 Netcool

5 NetScout

1 Network Security Toolkit

1 Niksun Alpine

1 Nimsoft

1 One View

1 Pathview

1 PRTG

4 Riverbed

1 SevOne

1 SecurActive Performance Vision

1 Security onion

1 Solaris

6 Solarwinds

1 Spectrum

1 Spiceworks

2 Spirent Avalanche

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Count Response

3 Splunk

1 Stratusphere UX

1 Sysaid

1 System Center

1 Teamquest

1 Up time

2 VCOPS

1 Velocimetrics

1 VMware Operations manager

1 VMware vCenter

1 Wireshark

3 Zabbix

1 Zenoss

General Responses

11 Unknown

5 none

2 Confidential

3 Sniffers & forensic tools

1 all Linux base monitoring tool

1 Currently developing these network monitoring tools. Most of these tools are expected to be developed in-house or built upon top of SDN Controllers with REST APIs/ Northbound APIs

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12. Is your company planning to change its monitoring capabilities in the next 24 months?

Value Count Percent

Planning to increase monitoring capabilities 111 37.6%

No changes planned 93 31.5%

Planning to reduce monitoring capabilities 4 1.4%

Don't Know 88 29.5%

Statistics

Unanswered 376

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13. Do you know what a virtual network tap is?

Value Count Percent

Yes 144 48.7%

No 152 51.4%

Statistics

Unanswered 376

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14. Do you know what a network packet broker is (also known as a visibility switch, matrix switch or network visibility controller)?

Value Count Percent

Yes 132 44.6%

No 164 55.4%

Statistics

Unanswered 376

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15. For virtual network monitoring, which of the following solutions do you use?

Value Count Percent

Virtual network SPAN ports 63 21.3%

Virtual network tap 59 19.9%

Other 21 7.1%

Don't Know 181 61.2%

Statistics

Unanswered 376


Cisco UCS but nothing meaningful 1

Currently developing a solution working with Tektronix 1

LINUX TAP 1

None 5

Physical Taps on External Interfaces 1

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VMWare 1

We do not monitor the Virtual Network 3

Used for R & D for our customer 1

Argent, in-house 1

Limited tools available in 1000v, other virtual switches 1

Optical taps 1

Vswitch capability 1

Using promiscuous virtual adapter, virtual TAP: mirroring traffic within a virtual host to an external device

1

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16. Does your company segment data and applications in its virtualized data center for security and/or regulatory purposes?

Value Count Percent

Yes 130 43.9%

No 76 25.7%

Don't Know 90 30.4%

Statistics

Unanswered 376

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17. Does your company run “business critical applications” in your virtualized server environments?

Value Count Percent

Yes 203 69.1%

No 39 13.3%

Don't Know 52 17.7%

Statistics

Unanswered 378

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18. Does your company monitor critical data such as personally identifiable information housed within your virtualized data center?

Value Count Percent

Yes 125 42.2%

No 81 27.4%

Don't Know 90 30.4%

Statistics

Unanswered 376

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19. What organization within your company is responsible for managing the server virtualization environment?

Value Count Percent

Server admin team 146 49.5%

Network admin team 65 22.0%

Other 48 16.3%

Don't Know 36 12.2%

Statistics

Unanswered 377

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20. What organization within your company is responsible for managing and monitoring the virtual switch / network in the virtualized data center?

Value Count Percent



Monitoring/Tools group 18 6.1%

Other 59 20.0%

Statistics

Unanswered 377

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21. What organization within your company is responsible for application performance monitoring and troubleshooting within the virtualized data center?

Value Count Percent



Monitoring/Tools group 52 17.6%

Other 68 23.0%

Statistics

Unanswered 376

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Methodology and Scope

Surveys invitations were sent out to thousands of targeted individuals worldwide. This included engineering teams, product management teams, sales and sales engineering, and management teams. The survey was localized by region with three separate regions being created: the Americas (North and South America), Europe and the Middle East (including African countries), and Asia Pacific (included mainland Asia, Indonesia, Australia, etc.). Germany was excluded from the survey due to SPAM laws.

A total of 673 surveys were returned. Of this number, there were 438 complete responses and 235 partial responses (where the respondent answered yes but did not complete all questions). The Americas had the largest number of responses (approximately 50%) with the other two regions both around 25% of the total responses.

The exact breakdown of the responses by region is as follows:

North and South America (50.4%) = 222 completed, 117 partial responses

EMEA (23.5%) = 104 completed, 54 partial responses

Asia and Pacifica (26.2%) = 112 completed, 64 partial responses

Survey Demographic Information

Company demographic size split almost evenly across all three regions between SMB (less than 500 employees), small enterprise (500 to 5,000 employees), and large enterprise (over 5,000 employees). The split was almost 33% for each. However, both Asia Pacific and the Americas had slightly more responses from the large enterprise segment.

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How many employees does your company have?

Value Count Percent

Less than 500 88 31.1%

501 to 1,000 26 9.2%

1,001 to 5,000 54 19.1%

More than 5,000 108 38.2%

Don't Know 7 2.5%

Statistics

Unanswered 389

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How many people does your company network support?

Value Count Percent

Less than 500 93 32.9%

501 to 1,000 20 7.1%

1,001 to 5,000 44 15.6%

5,001 to 25,000 29 10.3%

25,001 to 100,000 23 8.1%

More than 100,000 50 17.7%

Don't Know 24 8.5%

Statistics

Unanswered 389

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Responses by Market Segment

The top responding market segments were as follows: Technology (32.5%), Telecom/Service Provider (28.3%), Finance/Insurance (6.7%), Government (6%), and Manufacturing (4.6%). The following chart shows a detailed breakdown.

Which of the following best describes your company’s business?

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Value Count Percent

Retail 0 0.0%

Finance / Insurance 19 6.7%

Utilities / Energy / Oil & Gas 4 1.4%

Telecom / Service Provider 80 28.3%

Manufacturing 13 4.6%

Construction 1 0.4%

Transportation 4 1.4%

Real Estate 1 0.4%

Education 10 3.5%

Healthcare 7 2.5%

Arts and Entertainment 4 1.4%

Accommodation and Food Services 0 0.0%

Technology 92 32.5%

Government 17 6.0%

Other 31 11.0%

Statistics

Unanswered 389

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Responses by Role

The roles of respondents varied. 45% of respondents were in IT. Another 11% of respondents were executives. The other category mainly comprised technical personnel such as architects, engineers, sales engineering, project management, and consultants.

What is your role within your company?

Value Count Percent

IT 128 45.2%

Marketing 8 2.8%

Product Management 32 11.3%

Executive Management 30 10.6%

Other 85 30.0%

Statistics

Unanswered 389

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My responsibilities in my organization can be best described as:

Value Count Percent

C-level executive 23 8.1%

General manager 10 3.5%

Vice president 12 4.2%

Director 24 8.5%

Manager 89 31.5%

Individual contributor 92 32.5%

Other 33 11.7%

Statistics

Unanswered 389

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Left Blank 645

Analyst 2

Architect 3

Consultant 3

Decision influencer 1

Engineer 1

Entry Level 1

IT Specialist 1

Leader and Coach 1

Network Administrator 2

Proprietor (Sole Trader) 1

QA Manager 1

Senior Engineer 2

Solution Sales Specialist 1

Strategic Marketing/Product Mgmt Advisor 1

Team Leader 3

Test Engineer 1

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Responses by Country

Information on responses by country was also captured. The top reporting countries were: United States of America (38.5%), Canada (7%), India (5.6%), and China (4.8%). A detailed breakdown is provided as follows:

Value Count Percent

Asia/Pacific Region 3 0.5%

Australia 15 2.5%

Austria 3 0.5%

Belarus 1 0.2%

Brazil 9 1.5%

Canada 42 7.0%

Chile 2 0.3%

China 29 4.8%

Colombia 1 0.2%

Czech Republic 1 0.2%

Denmark 1 0.2%

Egypt 4 0.7%

Europe 9 1.5%

Finland 4 0.7%

France 10 1.7%

Germany 4 0.7%

Greece 1 0.2%

Guatemala 1 0.2%

Hong Kong 5 0.8%

Hungary 3 0.5%

Iceland 1 0.2%

India 34 5.6%

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Value Count Percent

Indonesia 5 0.8%

Ireland 1 0.2%

Israel 17 2.8%

Italy 5 0.8%

Japan 11 1.8%

Kazakhstan 1 0.2%

Korea, Republic of 21 3.5%

Latvia 1 0.2%

Lebanon 1 0.2%

Malaysia 3 0.5%

Mexico 7 1.2%

Morocco 1 0.2%

Netherlands 2 0.3%

New Zealand 1 0.2%

Norway 1 0.2%

Pakistan 1 0.2%

Palestinian Territory 1 0.2%

Panama 1 0.2%

Peru 1 0.2%

Philippines 4 0.7%

Poland 4 0.7%

Portugal 7 1.2%

Puerto Rico 1 0.2%

Qatar 2 0.3%

Romania 2 0.3%

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Value Count Percent

Russian Federation 12 2.0%

Saudi Arabia 2 0.3%

Serbia 1 0.2%

Singapore 9 1.5%

Slovakia 1 0.2%

South Africa 1 0.2%

Spain 7 1.2%

Sweden 8 1.3%

Switzerland 3 0.5%

Taiwan 7 1.2%

Thailand 6 1.0%

Turkey 3 0.5%

Uganda 1 0.2%

United Arab Emirates 3 0.5%

United Kingdom 20 3.3%

United States 232 38.5%

Uruguay 1 0.2%

Venezuela 1 0.2%

Statistics

Unanswered 69

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About Ixia Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA) provides application performance and security resilience solutions to validate, secure, and optimize businesses’ physical and virtual networks. Enterprises, service providers, network equipment manufacturers, and governments worldwide rely on Ixia’s solutions to deploy new technologies and achieve efficient, secure, ongoing operation of their networks. Ixia's powerful and versatile solutions, expert global support, and professional services equip organizations to exceed customer expectations and achieve better business outcomes.

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