Global IT Spending Stable, Analysts Say

Terry Olaes

Terry Olaes

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In another “Recession? What Recession?” article, Gartner reports that global IT spending has been largely unaffected by the signs of weakness in the US and global economies. Their survey focused on end-user corporations and did not include vendors or technology service providers.

Overall, "rumors of IT budgets' demise, especially in the first quarter, have been greatly exaggerated," said Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner Executive Programs, during a conference call last week.
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Not suprising though. A good company (and its IT department) looks at the economy in a similar fashion to the stock market. When the economy is going down you have two options, the first being to clamp down and stop the 'bleeding' of capital which may keep you afloat but stagnant, or you can use the downturn to build up infrastructure and product options (using the downtime as build time). When the recession turns around your already on point as a company to take in business that the competitor companies can not service.

Downturns are moments to build a company cheaply as long as you don't over extend.
 
One thing most people don't think about is that virus/malware/spyware writers don't take time off when the economy is bad.

Unfortunately they provide job security for some sectors of the IT field.
 
Why does it always come down to "viruses, and malware save our asses from losing our jobs" ?

I've seen far more problems related to configuration issues, hardware failure, user errors, than virus infections. In fact virus infections were a rare occurrence when I last worked in IT support.

Personally I think its a poor way to look at the stability of the IT field just because viruses are still around.
 
from a data center perspective. this is a good time to start running more efficiently. we've found abandoned servers that each consume 500W...power costs 5 cents per KW per hour. from now to the end of the year, that's about $350 per machine in savings. Consolidating into VMware also consolidates hardware. Blade technology further saves money in power consumption (though is expensive initially to get the infrastructure ready)
 
I'm constantly buying new hardware for our company. Monitors, laptops, routers, network cables, USB hubs, mouse, printers, Citrix licenses, Office licenses, Thawte licenses, etc etc etc..

Last week I bought 10 new HP Business Notebook 6710b for the company at $12,100 plus 10 new Logitech USB mouse and 10 laptop bags.

It's a neverending race to keep up with what we need, what gets broken, what needs to be replaced, and what needs to be upgraded.
 
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