A recent survey covering planned expenditures across 26 technology catagories was conducted by Millward Brown, Research International, and Lightspeed Research collaborate with LinkedIn uncovers that only ”Data Storage” is the technology to see increased spending this year. This survey reveals that Virtualization is the next key trend that will impact the industry.
This survey was conducted among LinkedIn members who were IT Professionals. 450 of them from US and UK participated in this survey. While overall spending on Storage was only expected to increase by a marginal amount (less then 1%), this is in stark contrast to other hardware categories which showed declines between 2-3%. When asked about the key challenges facing them in the coming year, technology decision makers cited ”meeting the same or similar objectives with lower IT budgets,”
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http://www.millwardbrown.com/Sites/MillwardBrown/Content/News/PressReleaseView.aspx?id=/20090303_StorageInvestmentsRemainResilient
