Five Takeaways From Dell's 'State Of IT Trends' Survey

Cloud And Software-Defined Lead The Way

More than 60 percent of IT leaders and slightly more than half of business leaders say cloud computing is the most important tech trend for their companies. Even more dramatically, a full 80 percent of both IT and business leaders say their organizations are moving toward adopting -- or have completed the transition to -- a software-defined data center. Both groups say the flexibility, efficiency and scalability make software-defined technologies attractive. It’s important for solution providers to know customers’ business well enough to demonstrate how cloud and software-defined technologies can help achieve those goals.