Citi Prime Finance’s 2011 IT Trends & Benchmarks Survey
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Large Funds
: Infrastructure Approach
• Large funds grow their in-house infrastructure relative
to the medium fund segment, bringing the percentage of
on-premises infrastructure to 73%—the largest proportion
of any segment
Large Funds: Infrastructure Approach
On
Premises
27%
Off
Premises
73%
Source: Citi Prime Finance
Large Funds: Infrastructure Sourcing
Host
Your
Own
17%
SW
Vendor
Hosts
Directly
44%
Service
Provider
Source: Citi Prime Finance
33%
6%
Third Party
Managed Provider
Large Funds
: Infrastructure Sourcing
• Consistent with all fund segments, about two-thirds
of hardware / network budget is allocated to the
production environment, and the remainder toward
the disaster recovery / continuity of business
environment
• Large funds leverage software hosted directly by
the software provider more than any other fund
segment, even though they begin to increase self-
hosting off-premises data centers
Hardware / Network