If you are a business or technology professional in CO or WY, we want your opinion.

Which would best describe your position at your company?

On average, how often are you able to determine and address the root cause of the performance problem?

Most of the time, we rarely see the same issue come up twice

About half the time, lots of anomalies we can't figure out

Almost never, our tools say everything is fine but the problem still persists

I'm not sure, I'm not in IT

What does your troubleshooting methodology look like?

Take out one of my 62 tools to try to figure it out.

Call in a partner or the application owner...it's not MY problem.

Reboot the system and cross my fingers that the problem goes away...if I start to mess with it, God knows what might happen.

Go into a "war room"/ call in the "tiger team" and test like crazy

How many hours/week would you say you/your IT team spend troubleshooting performance issues?

Less than an hour

1 - 3 hours

3 - 5 hours

Over 5 hours

Which best describes how you map the systems in your network?

We don't have a comprehensive map.

We use a spreadsheet

We have software that maps the network systems and provides real-time communication data

If you were to be breached, would you have the ability to “rewind the tapes” and see what happened?

Yes, our monitoring records everything

I'm not sure

How confident are you that your company would weather a breach?

Extremely confident

Somewhat confident

Not confident

When was the last time you took an actual vacation?

Last year...I think (it's all a blur)

Senior year in college

I stare at far away places on screen savers a lot...

How would you describe your IT team?

Large in-house team, specialized by type (server, storage, database, etc.)

Small in-house team (IT generalists)

We outsource all our IT to a 3rd party

Just one guy who knows more about computers than anyone else

How many users do you take care of?

A small bunch (10 or less)

Quite a handful (11 - 49)

Seems like a small country (50+)

How old is the hardware you manage?

Pretty new, we just did a refresh within the last 2 years

Middle aged, not quite ready for retirement but slowing down

There are fossils embedded on the side of the boxes

I don't manage any hardware

We don't have any on-premise hardware

How are you planning to manage and protect growing amounts of data?

Buy a lot more storage...

Consider a new storage solution, like hyperconverged or all-flash

Hire someone else to manage it

I'm not sure yet

Where do you host your applications? Check all that apply.

Off premise/ data center

On premise

In the cloud

Which of these describe things best describe what's on your mind currently:

I'm tired of feeling like my data is spiraling out of control

I'm sick of having to waste time trying to keep old stuff alive

I'm worried about how to protect my data and in an environement where breaches are invevitable

I'm concerned that enhancing security means compromising performance

I'm frustrated that "the network" get's blamed for...everything

I'm overwhelmed that I'm constantly being forced to do more with less

Other

Please Specify:

Who is your current hardware/software provider?

CDW

Amazon

No clue/ Not my responsibility

Local Provider/Other

On a scale of 1 – 5 (one being mildly irritated and 5 wanting to go Rambo on someone) how frustrated do you feel about these aspects of your relationship with your current tech supplier:

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