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VoIP planning becomes reality

This month, wired and wireless networking projects are the top IT priority, as measured by our IT Priorities research. Currently, more VoIP projects are underway than any other networking solution, a trend that started in January, showing the shift from 12-month planning to deployment. And VoIP projects are still top-of-mind...

Tags: 12-Month

Blog posts 2005-05-04

Networking projects hard to predict

For over 12 months, wired and wireless networking projects have held the #1 spot in our IT Priorities rankings for IT projects currently underway, and those planned 12 and 24 months down the road. However, we noticed that IT managers have a tendency to overestimate the importance of and extent...

Tags: networking, information technology, 12-Month

Blog posts 2005-05-02

Future banking on networking solutions

This week we decided to spotlight the IT Priorities data that tend to get shoved aside—the technologies that managers tell us will most impact their IT environments 24 months in the future. Now, while our IT managers may not have specific solutions or vendors lined up that far in advance,...

Tags: information technology, 2-Year, wireless

Blog posts 2005-04-18

Cisco white papers most downloaded resource

BT Trax can do a lot more than analyze how much mindshare is held by a vendor or technology topic. Recently, we used it to see which vendor resources--white papers, case studies, and/or Webcasts--IT pros downloaded most frequently over the last 12 months. The first thing we found is that...

Tags: networking, vendor resource

Blog posts 2005-03-09

Networks, hardware and software solutions claim 55% of '06 IT plans

Of the nine technology categories we track in our IT priorities study, three constitute 55% of all IT initiatives planned for 12 months out. IT managers tell us that about 25% of their planned IT initiatives 12 months out will involve wired and wireless networking solutions. Hardware and software implementations...

Tags: information technology, 12-Month

Blog posts 2005-02-18

IT managers: Yes to Cisco, No to IBM

In the battle of IT vendors, Cisco is consistently favored more than avoided, while on balance, more planners will avoid IBM than will choose Big Blue. How do we know? For the past several months, as part of our IT Priorities study, we've been asking IT decision-makers which vendors they...

Tags: information technology, IBM Corp.

Blog posts 2005-02-15

Wireless security rises to 20% of '06 IT plans, Virus defense 30%

Wireless security, at one timemore a passing thought than a concrete concern for enterprise network builders, has come of age. While once registering only a few percentage points of overall IT security planning, wireless security has begun a steady climb to 'top-of-mind' status among IT decision-makers and planners. According to...

Tags: virus, information technology, wireless, virus defense, wireless security

Blog posts 2005-02-11

Boy, were we wrong: All IT plans are not created equal

If you thought that themix of IT projects planned for a given year was consistent industry to industry, you'd be wrong. Well, actually, we were wrong. We tested this simple hypothesis by analyzing our IT priorities dataon 12-month plans with respect to 12 major industry segments. And we learned that...

Tags: information technology, Liz Lightfoot

Blog posts 2005-02-09

Hardware hits a homerun

Can't seem to let go of the 2004 retrospectives, so, we'll allow ourselves one last look. Just what kind of news articles did IT decision makers and influencers read lastyear? The answer was a bit surprising, even to us. The biggest category was hardware--28% of all the news read covered...

Tags: information technology

Blog posts 2005-01-14

Happy Anniversary! 2004 in review

We've talked a lot about the marriage between our IT Priorities data and our new analytical tool, BT Trax--our window into which technologies IT decision makers are implementing and the kinds of information they rely on to identify, select, and buy the best solutions. As a toast to their one...

Tags: IT Priorities, information technology, vendor resource, technology category

Blog posts 2005-01-07