All Posts Tagged With: "Investment"
The Hot Aisle brings you yet another survey of over 6700 readers who commented on the impact of the current banking crisis on their IT Investment plans. As expected many respondents (52%) are pulling back on investing in IT. Overall 69% of respondants reported an impact on spending plans.
Most interestingly a few (5%) are accelerating [...]
I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM’s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted to share with [...]
The latest IT Job Board’s skills in demand survey figures show that regardless of the credit crunch, jobs in the IT sector have remained static since the beginning of the year with a slight increase in a few positions. Key findings are as follows:
Demand for testing roles increased by 8.3 percent between Q1 to Q2
IT support, [...]
You may be very surprised to see that McKinsey believe that Data Center costs are 25% of all IT costs. Many CIOs will find it difficult to reconcile this view with their own budgets. There are a two key reasons why this is a difficult and badly understood process.
Within many organizations many of the data center [...]
Continue ReadingI got around to reading a back copy of the Harvard Business Review and an article caught my eye again. Innovation Killers - How financial tools destroy your capacity to do new things. I skim read it back in January this year and made a mental note to spend a little time giving it more [...]
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