IT spending

Research firm IDC has tallied up PC sales for the second quarter of 2011, and the news is not good for Windows.

IDC study shows IT spending money like water (compared to last year) on hardware and cloud services; gush to continue in 2011.

A one-year bonus depreciation tax credit could significantly boost IT spending this year, say financial industry experts.

IT departments may finally have seen the last of job and salary cuts and be back on a growth track, according to new surveys of IT hiring and spending plans.

Small companies have allocated almost a fifth of their software budgets to SAAS and begun to give up hardware purchases because they can get what they want, cheaper, in the cloud.

Forrester prediction goes from 'astonishing' to 'really, really good,' read the story before wailing and rending your clothing in despair, otherwise people at Starbucks tend to stare. Trust me.

Small and medium-sized businesses plan to spend 4 percent more on IT in the latter half of 2010 than in the first six months, according to a survey of enterprise professionals by Spiceworks, a maker of IT management software. tweetmeme_source = 'ITworld';

President Barack Obama is proposing to allow businesses to write off all of the investment they do in 2011. But theres a lot of uncertainty ahead for IT managers interested in this tax break.

President Obama's approach to IT spending showed its teeth this week in a decision to end new spending on about 30 financial systems that cost about $3 billion in annual development.

With less than one-third of IT spending targeted towards new projects and innovation, the last thing an organization wants to do is cut these valuable projects that add new business value. Yet many CIOs miss opportunities to effectively reduce IT costs, says Tim Raducha-Grace, co-author of 'The Business of IT', because they don't have a clear view of their IT spending. Here he offers three steps to understand and reduce your IT costs

68 Percent to Buy New Laptops, Desktops and Servers; 51 Percent Plan New Software Purchases; and 33 Percent to Invest in IT Services