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Companies Spending 27% of IT Budget on New Initiatives
(IRVINE, Calif.) The average company allocated 27% of its IT budget to spending on new initiatives last year, indicating that companies were investing in emerging technologies, infrastructure improvements, and new business applications at a healthy level, according to Computer Economics.
January, 2008
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VoIP Adoption to Surpass 50% Mark This Year
(IRVINE, Calif.) About 43% of all organizations have already adopted some form of Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, and adoption rates should surpass the 50% mark for the first time in 2008, according to a Computer Economics survey.
January, 2008
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VoIP Adoption Moves into the Mainstream
The popularity of VoIP has steadily increased over the last few years. Our annual IT Spending, Staffing, and Technology Trends study indicates that VoIP adoption rates have risen at a 12% annualized rate from 2005-2007. This year, Computer Economics research indicates that, for the first time, the majority of businesses will have implemented some form of VoIP technology.
January, 2008
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New Initiatives Spending Is a Key Measure of Efficiency
Over the last few years, business and governmental organizations of all sizes have been giving priority to spending for new initiatives, as is typical in periods of economic growth. But inevitably those will priorities shift, and shift quickly, as the business cycle turns. In today's climate of slowing economic growth, IT managers need to be ready to defend the efficiency of their ongoing operations against pressure to make cutbacks while sustaining investment in high-priority strategic initiatives. The study is based on interviews with IT executives and a Computer Economics survey conducted in October and November 2007 on IT budgeting.
January, 2008
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Storage Virtualization Yields Positive ROI
(IRVINE, Calif.) Nearly 88% of companies that have adopted storage virtualization in some form achieved a positive or break-even return on investment, according to a Computer Economics study on early adopters of the technology.
December, 2007
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Few IT Organizations Make Users Pay
(IRVINE, Calif.) Despite the heated debate over chargeback practices in the earlier part of the decade, 42% of companies still do not charge back any portion of their IT budgets and less than a quarter engage in aggressive chargeback practices, according to a Computer Economics survey of IT managers.
December, 2007
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Applications Consolidation Rising Rapidly
According to Computer Economics, more than three-quarters of all organizations have engaged in applications consolidation, indicating that the trend by enterprises to standardize on fewer software vendors is rising. Computer Economics is an IT research firm that specializes in metrics for IT management.
December, 2007
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IT Budget Chargebacks: Making Users Pay
The key premise of chargeback strategies--that IT expenses should be allocated as closely as possible to the business activities that create the demand--seems like a rational approach to sound business management. If business-unit decision-makers perceive IT to be "free," they will be unable to account for the true cost of business investments and activities. This Research Byte is an executive summary of our full report and survey on current practices in the chargeback of IT expenses to users.
December, 2007
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Storage Virtualization: Benefits and Risks
Although implementation of storage virtualization is limited, organizations of all sizes are showing a great deal of interest in the technology. This Research Byte is an executive summary of our full report on the ROI and TCO of storage virtualization, based on the experiences of early adopters as reported in our most recent annual survey.
December, 2007
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2008 IT Spending Outlook: Anemic Growth
Although IT operational budgets increased by a healthy 5% this year over 2006 levels, Computer Economics is now detecting a slight bias toward underspending relative to budgets this year. Furthermore, IT executives are now lowering their expectations for increased IT spending in 2008. These trends are most pronounced among large organizations. This article presents the results of our Q4 survey of IT executives and what they mean for the IT spending outlook in 2008. (3 pp., 6 figs.)
November, 2007
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Application Consolidation Provides Major Payoff
Application proliferation is the bane of many IT organizations. Although the difficulties of application consolidation should not be underestimated, the benefits should be appreciated as well. In fact, the trend toward application consolidation is increasing, and the majority of organizations that begin such initiatives tend to increase their efforts. This Research Byte is a summary of our full report, Application Consolidation: Adoption Trends and Benefits, which investigates this and other trends and provides recommendations based on our findings.
November, 2007
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DBA Staffing Ratios: Executive Summary
Database administrators (DBAs) and support staff comprise a relatively small but vital part of most IT organizations. In addition, DBAs have maintained a surprisingly steady percentage of the total IT staff over the years. The composite numbers, however, mask some of the underlying sea-changes occurring as a result of all the forces impacting this aspect of the IT workforce. This Research Byte is an extract from our full report on DBA staffing ratios.
November, 2007
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The ABCs of Storage Area Networks
Making the decision to invest in storage area networks (SANs) requires an understanding of the differences between various approaches to managing storage. Unfortunately, the differences are not always clearly understood outside the realm of the enterprise data center. SANs, network-attached storage (NAS), and direct-attached storage (DAS) are sometimes positioned as competing technologies, but in actuality all three are found in today's enterprise IT environments and have distinct applications. This Research Byte provides a primer on these three types of storage management systems and their application.
November, 2007
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Application Developers Getting Largest Pay Hikes
IT salaries will increase by over 5% in 2008, with applications developers leading the list of jobs with the greatest percentage gain. This Research Byte analyzes the factors driving these salary increases in light of current trends in application development staffing and outsourcing levels.
October, 2007
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Regulations: Mixed Blessing for the Security Program
What is the proper relationship between the security program and regulatory compliance? How can an organization be compliant with all of the applicable regulations and at the same time be truly secure? To answer these questions, Computer Economics conducted a survey in the first half of 2007 to gather information from security, IT, and regulatory professionals on these questions.
October, 2007
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