Cloud and Bandwidth Demands Challenge IT Teams

Network Instruments, a provider of network and application performance monitoring, released its Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study. The results suggest a potential management storm as IT teams face significant monitoring challenges from multiple forms of cloud computing, as well as substantially increased bandwidth demands.

Study Highlights

-- Moving apps to the cloud: 60% anticipate half of their apps will run in the cloud within 12 months

-- Video is mainstream: 70% will implement video conferencing within a year

-- Bandwidth demand driven by video: 25% expect video will consume half of all bandwidth in 12 months

-- Chief application challenge: 83% were most challenged by identifying the problem source

-- Increased bandwidth demands: 33% expect bandwidth consumption to increase by more than 50% in next two years.

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