In the second annual Federal IT Trends Survey, conducted by IT management solutions provider ScienceLogic, IPv6 readiness and virtualization management proved to be key issues. Administered at FOSE 2008, over 100 federal agency systems administrators, IT managers and network engineers were polled on various topics within federal IT, including virtualization, Green IT solutions and FISMA compliance.
Making this issue second to last on the list of priorities covered by the survey, only 65 percent of agency IT personnel surveyed, surprisingly, say that IPv6 is important to their operations. An equal number of respondents, last year, 1 in 5, said that their agencies would and would not meet the June 2008 mandate for IPv6. This year, the numbers went up, 1 in 3, but the respondents remain equally split on whether or not their agencies will meet the mandate.
With over 85 percent marking the technology as important to their daily operations, virtualization management continues to be important to federal IT personnel. However, adoption of solutions, appears to have dropped off from last year; only 15 percent polled have tools in place versus 20 percent last year.
The survey also showed:
* FISMA compliance and Securing IT is a top issue - This category showed, since last year, the most marked gains in terms of importance and solutions deployed or planned. Over 90 percent of respondents said it was important, over 50 percent have a solution in place and nearly three-quarters will have a solution or upgrade in place by next year.
* Having a complete IT Asset Inventory is a critical issue - With almost 70 percent of those surveyed already having tools in place or planning for implementation by next year, topping the list of important issues for government IT at almost 100 percent was the need for a complete IT Asset Inventory.
* Green IT is important, but low priority - Only 13 percent actually have any tools in place, altough almost 75 percent of respondents say Green IT is important to them.
* ITIL/CMDB deployments are up - The importance of this best practices framework remained steady and last on the list in terms of priority at 56 percent. Actual ITIL/CMDB implementations jumped from 1 percent last year to 10 percent this year.
* Web 2.0 Tools are being adopted - To improve communications and efficiency, Government IT is taking advantage of wikis and RSS tools. 67 percent said that Web 2.0 tools are important with 22% current adoption backing up that importance.
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