IT budgets
Saving Money in Your Security Spending During a Financial Crisis
White Paper Belts are getting tighter around all budgets and IT budgets are no exception. Now is the time for administrators and executives to look at ways of getting the most out of their... [13 Nov 2009]
Ten Easy Steps to Secure Your Small Business
White Paper However, they also contend with the challenge of limited budgets for IT expenditures. Small business networks face the same threats as large enterprise networks. The role of administering the network in... [13 Nov 2009]
User Provisioning and Access Compliance for Microsoft Environments
White Paper To address these key business priorities, today's IT budgets include significant funding for specific solutions such as password management, user provisioning, automated access compliance and role... [13 Nov 2009]
Consolidating Enterprise Network Security Infrastructure: Ways to Cut Costs and Complexity
White Paper It is the responsibility of IT to optimize limited resources and garner the greatest return on budgets. Off late economy, large enterprise businesses and their IT... [13 Nov 2009]
Instant Access to Information: The Return-on-Investment for Information Management Systems
White Paper These systems will become even more important for organizations to consider during difficult economic times when both IT and business staff members must become even more productive in an environment of declining... [13 Nov 2009]
Securing the Small Business Network: Keeping Up With the Changing Threat Landscape
White Paper However, small businesses do not have the IT staff resources or budgets of larger organizations. Modern advances in security technology offer small business network administrators the opportunity to... [12 Nov 2009]
Achieving the Lowest Server Virtualization TCO
White Paper Budgets previously allocated to keeping the lights on in the datacenter can be repurposed for IT projects that will improve operational efficiency and service level delivery. It is no... [12 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News While the debate over bankers' bonuses may still be generating headlines, it seems the financial services industry has found one way to cut back - slash IT budgets. Financial services... [04 Nov 2009]
Cloud Computing— Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?
White Paper Cloud computing frees up budgets hand-cuffed by IT expenses. Why are businesses embracing it? Instead of purchasing software licenses and hardware for new employees and locations,... [03 Nov 2009]
Plain Talk about Training Payment Options
White Paper Staffing and budgets are flat or declining, but the IT workload is rising. Yet even with today's lean budgets, many IT professionals are getting the valuable training... [03 Nov 2009]
3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs
White Paper Why IT utilisation, end-user support and maintenance budgets are the most strategic areas to investigate This IDC White Paper explores 3 tangible areas that IT departments should... [29 Oct 2009]
The True Value of Learning
White Paper Training departments cannot be sustained based on how well they do against their training budgets. Yogi Berra, that paragon of word manipulation, exposition and baseball, is often quoted as saying, "The future ain't what... [29 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury. Because... [23 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News With software spending down 16.5 per cent year-on-year, Windows 7's launch tomorrow will see it enter the market amid one of the toughest squeezes on IT budgets for some time. As the... [21 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News The news is not all good for CIOs, however: for more than half of tech chiefs, budgets won't grow in real terms next year while spending will only return to 2008 levels in 2012. If you haven't guessed already: 2009 was... [20 Oct 2009]