F5 ARX Research Report:
The Economic & Operational Impact for F5 ARX Customers
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The Economic & Operational Impact for F5 ARX Customers
A TechValidate Research Report
This is a short format research report describing how users address business or technology challenges with their F5 ARX. All information contained in this report was sourced directly from users with first-hand experience deploying their F5 ARX. TechValidate verifies the identity of all users involved in its research studies and guarantees anonymity so that they can speak candidly.
IT Investments Require Tangible Return On Investments
Sourced from TechValidate’s network of thousands of technology end users, TechValidate’s market research illustrates the operational challenges and purchasing environment facing today’s organizations.
TechValidate research bears out two key trends in the marketplace today. First, IT decision makers are requiring strong economic proof and return on investment calculations before investing in any new technologies. Second, virtualization, including file virtualization, is a strategic technology weapon in IT departments’ crusade to wring out additional cost savings.
What IT issues are consistently "Top of Mind" in your organization?
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TechValidate Analysis
Not surprisingly, economic issues remain the top-of-mind concern for IT professionals. Thereafter a “suite” of considerations take up relatively equal precedence in IT pros’ minds. What all of these issues share in common is a tactical, actionable focus on making an organizations information infrastructure avaible, secure, and implemented in a planned fashion. Alas, at the end of the day, the bottom line is the bottom line: controlling costs is on the IT pro mind. |
Virtualization Strategies Matter
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TechValidate Analysis
Over the past five years, virtualization of applications, servers, storage, and IO resources has emerged as core technology allowing IT organizations to deliver better economies of management and scale operations effectively. TechValidate research indicates that virtualization technology has ascended to become a strategic technology in IT organizations’ planning going forward. A wide majority of IT professionals (78%) report the use or plans to deploy application, server, storage, or IO virtualization technologies in their data centers. |
Customer Snapshots of F5 ARX Financial & Operational Impact
The following deployment statistics have been collected and validated by TechValidate from real world users who have experience deploying and using their F5 ARX.
F5 ARX has demonstrated strong financial and operational saving metrics after being deployed in a wide variety of customer environments. The TechValidate data collected below showcases how the F5 ARX can help IT departments streamline their file storage environments and achieve significant cost savings for their organization.
Reduced Storage Budgets
52% of IT organizations reduced their overall annual storage budget by an average of 20% or more by deploying F5 ARX.
Payback Period Less Than One Year
53% of organizations using F5 ARX reported a payback period of 12 months or less.
CAPEX Savings Statistic
54% of IT organizations saved at least $100K of Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) costs by deploying their F5 ARX.
Storage Purchasing Deferments With F5 ARX
22 IT organizations will defer purchasing an average of 15 TBs of storage in the next 12 months by deploying their F5 ARX.
Storage Administration Time Savings
50 IT organizations that deployed F5 ARX reduced their storage administration time by an average of 21%.
Reduced Data Migration Time
77% of IT organizations reduced their data migration time by 20% or more after deploying their F5 ARX.
Research Methodology
This QuickSheet is based upon data collected from customers of F5. TechValidate surveyed 35 users and purchasers of F5 ARX between February 3, 2009 and February 10, 2009. Respondents had the following demographic profile:
- 29% of respondents were from a Large Enterprise (> 5,000 employees), 20% of respondents were from a Global 500 Company, 20% of respondents were from a Medium Enterprise (between 100 to 5,000 employees)
- 14% of respondents were from the Media & Entertainment industry, 14% of respondents were from the Professional Services industry, 9% of respondents were from the Construction industry
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| Validated On: | Mar 12, 2009 |
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About this Document
This downloadable document is a short format research report describing how users address business or technology challenges with F5 ARX.
All information contained in this report was sourced directly from users with first-hand experience deploying F5 ARX. This report may also contain perspective supplied by F5 ARX. This content is clearly labeled.
TechValidate verifies the identity of all users involved in its research studies and guarantees anonymity so that they can speak candidly.
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