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- VoIP gets real: 12-month planning rises rapidly
- If you had any questions about the advance of VoIP into the enterprise, we can answer them for you now—planning for VoIP solutions has doubled since January 2005, rising to 35% of all networking plans. This is a dramatic development for our IT Priorities data, especially considering that the trend...
- Tags: VoIP, Gartner Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-08-02
- SMBs take a breather after SOX deadline extension
- For the last year and a half, regulatory issues are among the top IT management priorities with most attention focused on meeting the financial disclosure requirements set forth by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Consequently, spending has jumped tremendously for public companies, fueling regulatory compliance IT projects that...
- Tags: compliance, compliance deadline
- Blog posts 2005-07-12
- Hardware No. 1 News Topic: Driven by desktops, and rivalry between Intel and AMD
- As we approach the half-year mark, we checked the latest 12-month BT Trax stats for news topics. Hardware carries the day as the most read topic, with 21% of all news interest, out-muscling even security. What about hardware is so interesting? The biggest news surrounds desktops, followed by servers...
- Tags: desktop, chip, Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-06-08
- EMC is tops among SAN storage vendors
- EMC is twice as likely as their nearest competitor to be the favorite storage vendor. 20% of those decision makers naming a preferred vendor identified EMC, while around 10% named HP and Dell, respectively. IBM trailed somewhat at 7%. Recently, we reported that SAN is the overwhelming choice...
- Tags: SAN, storage company, EMC Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-05-25
- Foes of outsourcing get good news
- According to our BT Trax data, interest in outsourcing news has been steadily climbing since November 2004, growing approximately 10-fold. So what is the hubbub all about? Not too surprisingly, a loose collection of stories over the past few months, reporting that the cost of outsourcing is often greater than...
- Tags: outsourcing
- Blog posts 2005-05-16
- SANs winning the storage solution race
- We analyzed the last 6 months of our IT Priorities data to see what's happening in the world of hardware projects and plans. We noticed that while server and storage 12-month plans were most divergent in December 2004, 51% vs. 16%, respectively, they've started shifting toward a happy medium this...
- Tags: storage
- Blog posts 2005-05-09
- 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
- Back at the farm: Servers growing up
- Over the past six months more IT professionals have sought information on hardware solutions than any other technology area (networking is a very close 2nd). Data from BT Trax reveals a curiosity; storage resources were accessed more frequently than information about servers—34% compared to 25%. Historically, servers and storage...
- Tags: server, serverS
- Blog posts 2005-04-22
- 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
- In and out of love...with Web Services
- Liz Lightfoot has some interesting insights on Web services over at our sister blog DataPoint. Leveraging some analysis from BT Trax, she notes that "interest in Web services ebbs and flows with some periodicity."While Gartner's initiation of coverage back in 2001 was a key milestonewith regard to overall interest, few...
- Tags: Web service, Web
- Blog posts 2005-04-01
- Interest in Web services waxes and wanes
- Depending on your frame of reference, it wasn't that long ago that Web services was an IT buzz word bantered about but little understooda lot more hooplah than moolah, so to speak. Just how long ago? We did some digging to see when Web services started making waves and, at...
- Tags: Web, Web service
- Blog posts 2005-04-01
- As networks stabilize, attention turns to building up the infrastructure
- Our researchshows that the proportion of IT resources allocated for network infrastructure is rising, revealing a big shift away from administration projects. The key "other" or miscellaneous networking technologies thatIT budgets are focused oninclude: Gigabit Ethernets, WANs, RFID, Fiber optics, and LANs.The "other"group in our IT Priorities data set is...
- Tags: network
- Blog posts 2005-03-25
- 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
- Section 404 kicks in and rocks SOX readers
- With all the hubbub about Sarbanes-Oxley, we turned to BT Trax to see how the news has been playing out over the last 12 months. As you can see in the SOX news interest graph, there is a low-level of interest but key developments spike interestto new highs, and none...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- Sun and IBM capture most server news interest
- ZDNet's latest chart of the week shows news items about Sun and IBM servers are far and away the hottest in that category. Through BT Trax, we continuously monitor how our IT content is consumed, and for fun, we slice and dice the data numerous ways to be sure we've...
- Tags: server, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-02-25
- Dell servers most favored, IBM servers not
- Plowing through more of our IT Priorities datahas turned up some interesting emerging trends in server plans 12 months out. Though the data set is still small (only 100 responses from our IT executives and managers), it appears as though there is a strong preference for Dell servers in our...
- Tags: server, Dell Computer Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-02-23
- 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
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