Tag: IT
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Gartner: Outsourced IT Services Prices Could Fall 20%
Outsourced IT services prices will decline between 5 and 20 percent through 2010 as the market for them becomes more competitive, according to a new report from Gartner released this week. The price pressure will come from increasing competition in the market between traditional and new providers, Gartner says, as more providers compete aggressively to… Read more
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How to Get IT Job Security and a 6-Figure Salary
Looking for a six-figure salary and a virtual guarantee of a job? Even as the recession grinds on and unemployment remains high, virtualization engineers are enjoying boom-time salaries and job opportunities. As more companies look to server consolidation and virtualization as their big IT projects for saving money in 2009 and beyond, and others look… Read more
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Can Cisco Reshape the IT World?
Project California was one of the worst-kept secrets in tech history. The semi-leaked blog that announced Cisco Systems’ data center intentions last December was the first shot in what could be the looming war between the networking giant and the rest of the IT marketplace. The unveiling of Unified Computing System—as Cisco calls it—could spell… Read more
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Follow the IT Money
Categories: News and TrendsWhen you’re a solution provider, you can either spend your time trying to persuade people to do something or you can spend your time making money by helping do things they already want to do. With that in mind, solution providers might want to take note of a Ziff Davis Enterprise survey of senior IT… Read more
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Big Companies to Spend on IT Hardware
About four out of five midsize and large companies plan to buy IT hardware in the next six months—a statistic that is in stark contrast to recent analyst reports of hardware sales declines in 2009. The note of optimism comes out of the CDW IT Monitor, CDW’s bimonthly survey of 1,000 IT professionals about their spending plans… Read more
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IBM Global Financing to JumpStart IT Spending
Think you can’t benefit from President Obama’s U.S. Stimulus Spending Bill because your customers are leasing technology and computer equipment rather than buying it? Think again. IBM Global Financing has introduced "JumpStart Rates." The idea is this: IBM Global financing acquires the computer equipment and benefits from the stimulus funds, then passes through that benefit… Read more