Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. These technologies impact…
Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total $3.2 trillion in 2009, a 6% decline from 2008 spending of $3.4 trillion, according to Gartner. Continued weak IT spending because of the economic situation combined with the effect of exchange rate movements has resulted in Gartner lowering its 2009 forecast from its 1Q09 projection. In March,…
As Cloud computing begins to move beyond the pure hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption, Gartner has identified the five attributes of Cloud computing. By using these attributes, it is possible to see how strongly a Cloud solution (or service) adheres to the Cloud computing model. Gartner defines Cloud computing as a…
While many CIOs survived last year with only reduced increases to their budgets, this brought about budget cuts as companies continue to find ways to weather the recession. In the first quarter of 2009, CIOs experienced significant IT budget revisions as executives gained a greater understanding and solidified plans for addressing the global financial crisis,…
Worldwide vertical market IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2009, a 0.5% increase from 2008, according to Gartner. Utilities, healthcare and government are expected to be the strongest-growing segments of the market in 2009. “The economic slowdown triggered by the U.S. subprime market crisis, along with fluctuating oil prices and currency exchange…
Amazon Web Services is more “persistent” than ever today after officially launching its Elastic Block Store (EBS) as part of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment to let users create large volumes that can behave as raw, unformatted hard drives. Pricing for EBS is based on storage provisioned monthly starting at 10 cents per gigabyte…