IDC’s Top 10 Tech Predictions for 2011

In a tradition as ingrained and heady as a toast at midnight, every New Year begins with a deluge of predictions. It’s refreshing that many of the prescient claims this year are optimistic, albeit guardedly, after so many years of recession-cast gloom and doom. “To play off Coca-Cola’s slogan, the recession was the pause that…

How Will the ‘New Normal” Change Your IT Spending?

International Data Corp. (IDC) recently issued a provocative study proclaiming a period of austerity it’s calling the “new normal”. Based on a survey of 140 CIOs and IT managers from Fortune 1000 companies, it suggests that organizations steel themselves as follows: Re-review the 2010 project portfolio. Assume that by mid-year, the funding outlook will turn…