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  • Uncle Sam's dumbest tech buys

    Posted November 9, 2010 - 3:35 pm

    The U.S. government has made some less-than-successful tech investments over the years. Here are some choice examples of goofy federal and state government tech buys in recent history.

  • Global IT spending to drop by nearly 11% in ’09, Forrester says

    Posted June 30, 2009 - 9:02 pm

    The high-tech industry might finally be hitting rock bottom, according to Forrester Research, which Tuesday forecast global IT spending to decline by nearly 11% in 2009 before vendors and end-user organizations begin to see some signs of recovery later this year and early next.

  • Open source, Web 2.0 gain appeal as IT budgets shrink

    Posted June 22, 2009 - 2:41 pm

    San Antonio-based CPS Energy, the largest municipality-owned gas and electric company in the country, needed to get a better grip on its budget and its budgeting process. Since CPS Energy was an enterprise SAP user, more SAP AG software was the obvious and lowest-risk way for CIO Christopher Barron to go.

  • 5 IT essentials: A recession-proof priority list

    Posted April 22, 2009 - 4:54 pm

    Amidst all the talk about managing costs, doing more with less, layoffs, and cutbacks, IT managers find themselves paring things down to the essentials. Here, IT managers share the things their departments can't do without. (And IT professionals share the things they'd be happy to stop doing ... now!)

  • Can you cut information security in hard times and survive?

    Posted April 21, 2009 - 11:49 am

    Although some analysts actually expect security spending to rise this year -- at least as a percentage of total IT spending -- some CIOs are giving serious thought to the once-unthinkable idea of trimming security budgets as businesses look to cut costs during this global recession.

  • Risks, rewards, challenges of financing IT purchases

    Posted November 24, 2008 - 4:10 pm

    What happens if a company defaults on a loan for a multimillion-dollar ERP software purchase? Or can't pay for the hardware, software and services that it bought two quarters ago? As it turns out, hardware is just like a house or car: It can be "repo'ed," refurbished and resold by the vendor or, perhaps, put out on eBay.

  • Wall Street's collapse puts IT spending in (some) peril

    Posted October 6, 2008 - 4:59 pm

    The overall economic cost of Wall Street's collapse has yet to be totaled. But it's clear that IT departments will be laboring under some changed conditions in the months ahead.
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