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One of the key issues in IT today is that normal operating expenses consume way too much of the annual budget – 61% on average in most organizations is spent keeping the lights on, and 25% spent on regular migrations and upgrades. That leaves a scant 14% on average for innovative investments that can give […]

Managing desktop PC environments remains costly in most IT environments. First, most PCs are on a schedule to be ripped and replaced every 3 years, requiring a recurring hardware investment and labor to be budgeted to affect the change.
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Even more so, PCs continue to place a management burden on the IT organization.  According to IDC, […]

If you are an ISV, or even if you are managing an internal application development group, you know that application testing and development labs are inefficient with regard to the number of test systems and managing these systems.
Lab systems are usually configured based on the current active development project. Only when a team is actively […]

IT spending has experienced a healthy four years of budget increases since the beginning of 2004, averaging between 6 to 7 percent each year, giving many IT execs plenty of reasons to celebrate. Although 2007 shows a more conservative sentiment, spending increases are likely to continue with estimates of 5 percent to 6 percent expected, according to […]