IT organizations around the world are consolidating and rebuilding data centers, moving infrastructure into the cloud, and looking at flexible and programmable data center architectures (like SDN for data center networks) in an effort to get the scale and agility they need to operate their businesses and manage cost. So what do end-users—companies in the process of building or upgrading their data centers today—think of the security problems they face? We conducted this survey to answer key questions about buyers’ plans for security in their data centers.

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