Ultima - Enterprise Storage Survey

To help us support you in these difficult times, we would love to hear from you. If you are currently responsible for defining, delivering or supporting your storage platform, then please complete the below questions.

This 3-minute survey allows you to share your thoughts with our experts, so that we can help you navigate the storage, cloud and data protection landscape, and engage on everything from technology steering and business continuity to storage life-cycle services.

*By completing this survey, you will qualify for a £25 Amazon voucher. The vouchers are issued at Ultima's discretion and users must have a follow up call in order to qualify.

*Terms and conditions apply, for full details please contact marketingteam@ultima.com. Ultima reserves the right to withdraw the offer at any time. All questions must be completed and corporate email address must be provided to qualify for a voucher. One voucher per entrant only, participants remain personally responsible for reporting and paying to HMRC any additional income tax and National Insurance due in connection with incentives they receive under the programme

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* 1. Please enter your Full Name

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* 2. Please enter your Company Name

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* 3. Please enter your Current Role

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* 4. Please enter your corporate Email Address to be eligible for the Gift Card

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* 5. Please enter a Contact Number

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* 6. Which of the below challenges are you facing as a result of the mass recent shift to home working (tick all that are relevant):

Storage environment capacity

Storage environment flexibility

Storage throughput

Disparate estate leading to capability issues

General poor user experience

Other (please specify)

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* 7. The ongoing issues clearly present a raft of unprecedented challenges to organisations. As a result would you say that IT is:

A higher priority to your business

The same priority to your business

A lower priority to your business

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* 8. How many IT users does your organisation have?

Less than 100

100 to 250

250 to 500

500 to 1,000

1,000 to 5,000

More than 5,000

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* 9. Please rank the following aspects of your storage in order of highest importance

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* 10. Please select the importance of the following workloads when considering a storage platform

	Not at all	Low	Moderate	High	Critical
Containers	Containers Not at all	Containers Low	Containers Moderate	Containers High	Containers Critical
Virtual Machines	Virtual Machines Not at all	Virtual Machines Low	Virtual Machines Moderate	Virtual Machines High	Virtual Machines Critical
File Data	File Data Not at all	File Data Low	File Data Moderate	File Data High	File Data Critical
IoT	IoT Not at all	IoT Low	IoT Moderate	IoT High	IoT Critical
AI / Machine Learning	AI / Machine Learning Not at all	AI / Machine Learning Low	AI / Machine Learning Moderate	AI / Machine Learning High	AI / Machine Learning Critical
RDMBS	RDMBS Not at all	RDMBS Low	RDMBS Moderate	RDMBS High	RDMBS Critical
Non RDMBS	Non RDMBS Not at all	Non RDMBS Low	Non RDMBS Moderate	Non RDMBS High	Non RDMBS Critical
Big Data	Big Data Not at all	Big Data Low	Big Data Moderate	Big Data High	Big Data Critical

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* 11. When did you last undertake a major storage platform refresh?

In the last 12 months

1 to 2 years ago

2 to 5 years ago

5+ years ago

Other

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* 12. What issues are you currently experiencing with your existing storage platform? (Please tick all which apply)

Vendor / Partner Support

Operating Costs

Upgrade Costs

Performance

Compatibility / Flexibility

Management Complexity

Data Analytics

Technical Skills

Stability

None

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* 13. What vendors are you currently using to provide your primary storage platform?

DellEMC

HPE (inc Nimble)

Pure Storage

NetApp

IBM

Other (please specify)

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* 14. What vendors are you currently using to deliver data protection capabilities?

Veritas (e.g. NetBackup, Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault)

Veeam (e.g. Backup and Recovery)

Commvault

Rubrik

Zerto

DellEMC (e.g. Avamar, Networker, IPDA, Data Domain)

Microsoft (e.g. ASR, Azure Backup)

HPE (e.g. StoreOnce)

Cohesity

IBM (e.g. Spectrum Protect, Tivoli)

Other (please specify)

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* 15. As part of this survey, you will be contacted by one of our Storage Specialists to discuss the information provided. Further to this call, would you like to meet with our specialists to discuss your storage strategy and related projects and increase your voucher to £50?

Yes

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Ultima - Enterprise Storage Survey

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* 1. Please enter your Full Name

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* 2. Please enter your Company Name

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* 3. Please enter your Current Role

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* 4. Please enter your corporate Email Address to be eligible for the Gift Card

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* 5. Please enter a Contact Number

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* 6. Which of the below challenges are you facing as a result of the mass recent shift to home working (tick all that are relevant):

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* 7. ﻿The ongoing issues clearly present a raft of unprecedented challenges to organisations. As a result would you say that IT is:

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* 8. How many IT users does your organisation have?

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* 9. Please rank the following aspects of your storage in order of highest importance

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* 10. Please select the importance of the following workloads when considering a storage platform

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* 11. When did you last undertake a major storage platform refresh?

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* 12. What issues are you currently experiencing with your existing storage platform? (Please tick all which apply)

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* 13. What vendors are you currently using to provide your primary storage platform?

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* 14. What vendors are you currently using to deliver data protection capabilities?

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* 15. As part of this survey, you will be contacted by one of our Storage Specialists to discuss the information provided. Further to this call, would you like to meet with our specialists to discuss your storage strategy and related projects and increase your voucher to £50?

* 7. The ongoing issues clearly present a raft of unprecedented challenges to organisations. As a result would you say that IT is: