Cisco announces the Cisco Connected World report

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announced the final installment of the Cisco
Connected World report, an international study about the behavioral
trends of workers in accessing information anywhere, with any device,
and the ability of information technology (IT) professionals to
address their needs. The latest results focus on datacenter,
virtualization, and cloud computing trends, and evolving IT roles, in
the context of increasingly mobile and distributed workforces. The
study found that global IT professionals are creating new job
opportunities by increasing collaboration among teams in the
datacenter, and adopting new technologies such as virtualization and
cloud computing, but they are also struggling to maintain security
and data governance as employees demand more offsite access to
networks and information.

For example, across the 13 countries in the global
study, 52 percent of the IT professionals stated they use or plan to
use cloud computing, while much higher cloud adoption rates are
predicted in Brazil (70 percent), China (69 percent) and India (76
percent). Across the world, respondents rated the following as their
top datacenter priorities for the next three years: improve agility
and speed in deploying business applications (33 percent), better
manage resource capacity to align demand and capacity (31 percent),
increase datacenter resilience (19 percent), and reduce power and
cooling costs (17 percent).

Today's announcement adds to the initial survey
results released in October, which revealed that workers want
flexible access to corporate information from any mobile device,
anywhere, anytime, and to the results released in November, which
revealed disconnects in worker expectations around information
access, IT policies and employee awareness of policies. The latest
survey results examine how IT managers are evolving their datacenters
and taking advantage of new technologies, while working to
accommodate trends in the workplace like social media, device
proliferation, video and an increasingly mobile workforce.