1. The ‘movers and shakers’ category includes the fastest moving technologies from 2010 to 2012. The group of six includes two cloud methodologies – infrastructure and the ‘private’ cloud – as well as data center automation software, DCIM, modular design principles and upgraded systems management

2. ‘Staples’: these are equipment and systems which require regular updating and this category includes critical infrastructure equipment – cooling, cabling and switching, power protection and distribution, monitoring and building control systems and storage upgrades. The ‘staples’ will move up and down year-on-year within a range that indicates the approximate renewal cycle for the equipment – those within a 40% to 50% range, a bi-annual cycle and those within the 30%-40% range a tri-annual cycle

3. The third group – ‘special requirement’ – include the remaining technologies all of which are more specialist forms of IT optimisation (mainframe computing, high performance computing, unified computing etc) and the majority of outsourcing options

1. Two of the ‘movers and shakers’ are discussed under ‘cloud technologies’in the Outsourcing pages. The other four technologies follow a similar pattern of higher intended adoption across developed markets. Again B1 markets – China and Brazil – are close to the developed markets in terms of all these technologies excepting upgrades to systems management (as shown on Graph 2 on the next page)

2. ‘Staples’ do not vary much by market or industry sector as much as by facility profile. Organisations with larger numbers of data centers will require to look more regularly at their mission critical equipment

3. ‘Special requirement’ technologies are defined most by industry sector,with ICT and telecoms organisations indicating higher deployments of outsourcing options and research; healthcare and other public sector organisations indicating higher past and future deployment of the listed IT optimisation technologies.