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IT Manager Webcast: Dynamic IT and Security (Part 2 of 5): Desktop, Device, and Server Management (Level 100)

whitepaper The bulk of IT budgets are spent just "treading water," rather than adding new business value. There is more pressure than ever on IT departments today. Microsoft is focused on helping customers flip that equation through a more dynamic IT...

Tags: security management

[14 Apr 2008]

IT Manager Webcast: Dynamic IT and Security (Part 5 of 5): Data Protection (Level 200)

whitepaper The bulk of IT budgets are spent just "treading water," rather than adding new business value. There is more pressure than ever on IT departments today. Microsoft is focused on helping customers flip that equation through a more dynamic IT...

Tags: security management, water, data protection, business critical

[14 Apr 2008]

IT must be called to account over emissions

Comment In reality, under the pressure of almost continuous growth and restricted budgets, data centre management is often not all it should be. With the recent focus on green computing, it is surprising that less than one-fifth of data centre managers...

Tags: power, carbon emissions, data centres, green

[07 Apr 2008]

Recession fears hit IT budgets

Comment The credit crunch, uncertainty in the world's financial markets and fears of a recession all add up to even more pressure on already squeezed tech budgets as organisations tighten their belts. The state of the economy and its potential impact on IT...

Tags: cio agenda

[04 Apr 2008]

IT chiefs cutting back on contractors

News The state of the contractor market is something of an economic barometer - IT contract work which flows freely during boom years often dries up in leaner times when tech departments with shrinking budgets scale back projects and make do with in...

Tags: credit crunch, skills, contractors

[28 Mar 2008]

The CIO shopping list

Comment Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from tech investment are the key issues driving tech spending over the next year, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey.

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[26 Mar 2008]

IT Manager Webcast: Dynamic IT and Security (Part 3 of 5): Network and Edge Protection (Level 100)

whitepaper The bulk of IT budgets are spent just "treading water," rather than adding new business value. There is more pressure than ever on IT departments today. Microsoft is focused on helping customers flip that equation through a more dynamic IT...

Tags: network security

[24 Mar 2008]

Operational <strong>IT</strong> <strong>budgets</strong> to be squeezed in 2008

Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008

News But more than half (seven) of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they expect operational budgets to increase in 2008, with the same number saying their capital investment budgets will increase next year.

Tags: budgets, cio jury, cio, mark

[17 Dec 2007]

Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out

News Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010, said Gartner analyst Marcus Blosch, but only among those IT shops that effectively align themselves with business goals. Blosch expects some CFOs will use the outsourcing and offshoring phenomenon...

Tags: cio, budget, it, business processes

[21 Nov 2007]

Data centre chiefs under more pressure

News Data centre chiefs are struggling with staff shortages, more work to do and minimal increases in budgets. According to the report, server virtualisation and consolidation are top options for managing costs - it found that 90 per cent are at least...

Tags: virtualisation, data, data centre, managers

[30 Oct 2007]

Councils sign £400m shared services deal with IBM

News Jill Shortland, leader of Somerset County Council said the joint venture will help ease pressure on local government budgets. The 10-year venture between Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council is called Southwest One and will...

Tags: taunton, somerset, ibm, shared services

[02 Oct 2007]

Architecting Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions

whitepaper Together, compliance and increased user demand are creating more pressure on tight IT budgets. This business obligation is forcing IT departments to ensure that their availability and disaster recovery systems are sufficient to comply with these...

Tags: disaster recovery, disaster, availability, comply

[11 Sep 2007]

Service-Embedded Network Management

whitepaper They must train and retain IT staff, often with insufficient budgets. They must respond to pressure to implement a voice over IP (VoIP) solution to add functionality and lower telecommunications costs, without any perceptible impact on the quality...

Tags: voice - data integration, voice, bandwidth, facilitate

[29 Aug 2007]

Service-Embedded Network Management

whitepaper They must train and retain IT staff, often with insufficient budgets. They must respond to pressure to implement a voice over IP (VoIP) solution to add functionality and lower telecommunications costs, without any perceptible impact on the quality...

Tags: network design, voice, reducing, telecommunications

[09 Aug 2007]

Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities

Comment With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two financial services CIOs about current investment priorities and future trends.

Tags: esure, mark foulsham, graham yellowley, financial services

[19 Jun 2007]

Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities

CIO Analysis With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two financial services CIOs about current investment priorities and future trends.

Tags: financial services, gartner, graham yellowley, mark foulsham

[06 Jun 2007]

Can You Really Get ITIL Out of the Box?

whitepaper IT organizations are under intense pressure to meet ever-increasing demands for business services in an IT environment that is characterized by growing complexity, tight budgets, and the need for regulatory compliance.

Tags: infrastructure management, itil, demands, address

[18 May 2007]

Strategies for SOA Success

whitepaper Furthermore, the high cost of IT maintenance adds extra pressure to IT budgets. That's because SOAs directly address the many hurdles that IT departments must overcome in order to deliver on the dynamic and rapidly evolving requirements of the...

Tags: service oriented architectures, pressure, oriented, maintenance

[14 Mar 2007]

Strategies for SOA Success

whitepaper Furthermore, the high cost of IT maintenance adds extra pressure to IT budgets. That's because SOAs directly address the many hurdles that IT departments must overcome in order to deliver on the dynamic and rapidly evolving requirements of the...

Tags: infrastructure management, service oriented architectures, departments, budgets

[14 Mar 2007]

CIOs under pressure to deliver growth in 2007

News The increased expectations of IT come at a time when IT budgets are fairly static or increasing only slightly. The survey found global IT budgets will increase by an average of three per cent in 2007, while a third of CIOs predict no budget change...

Tags: cio agenda, gartner

[14 Feb 2007]

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