Tag: IT

  • CDW: IT Spending, Hiring Outlook a Mixed Bag

    Jessica Davis

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    Calling the IT outlook a "mixed bag," CDW said that the mood of those in charge of the IT purse strings brightened a bit in the first two months of this year compared with the last two months of 2007, but IT decision makers are still holding on tight to the moneybags.   That’s the… Read more

  • IDC Predicts Less IT Spending in `08

    Scott Ferguson

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    Global IT spending will decrease in the next 12 months as companies begin to feel the pinch of a slowing U.S. economy, according to new research from IDC. In a Feb. 11 report, the research firm found global IT spending will increase about 5 percent in 2008 and total about $1.38 trillion for the year.… Read more

  • Shell Strikes Massive IT Outsourcing Deal

    Shell Strikes Massive IT Outsourcing Deal

    Lawrence Walsh

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    More than 3,000 Royal Dutch Shell IT workers are waiting to find out their fates as the European oil giant is expected to announce next week that it will outsource much of its IT operations. According to published reports, Shell executives decided to slash thousands of IT positions in favor of outsourcing as part of… Read more

  • IT Forecasts for 2008 Are All Over the Map

    Michael Vizard

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    Just about every channel executive in the industry today is pretty much wondering the same thing about 2008 as all the various prognostications continue to roll in. The problem facing everybody is that the economic predictions being made today are all over the map. We all know that the general macroeconomic climate continues to be… Read more

  • CDW: IT Decision Makers Concerned About Economy

    Jessica Davis

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    Uncertainty in the U.S. economy is giving some IT decision makers pause when they ponder their plans for 2008. That’s according to a new bi-monthly survey by CDW. The direct market reseller created the survey, CDW IT Monitor, to measure the sentiments of the IT marketplace in the United States. CDW released the inaugural survey’s… Read more

  • An IT Friend in Need

    An IT Friend in Need

    Michael Vizard

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    One of the numerous highlights of a recent eWEEK survey of solution providers’ business practices was that when it comes to winning new business, many prefer to target the executive management team of a prospective client rather than the IT department. This makes sense on two levels. Sometimes there is no real IT department to… Read more