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IT Resilience: An Insurance Policy against Future Disruptions

By Dick Weisinger

What happens when IT stumbles? Data center outages or damage from fire or weather-related incidents.Are businesses able to recover? Key to a strong response is being able to act before the incident in a preventative and proactive way. That approach

IT Spending: Forecasts Cut at Economy Tumbles

By Dick Weisinger

At the beginning of January this year, Gartner was projects a 3-4% increase in global IT spending. All that has changed with COVID-19. Gartner now thinks that IT spending will shift gears and decline 8 percent by year end. Analyst

IT Spending: COVID-19 Shocks IT Plans for 2020

By Dick Weisinger

COVID-19 is expected to impact IT spending globally this year. IDC has revised their estimates for the year to a 2.7 percent decline, compared to a 4.3 percent increase which they had forecast in February. The IDC report said that

IT Metrics: The Business of Success

By Dick Weisinger

What are the best metrics to measure the success of an IT group? You might consider some of the following: System up time/availability System performance Number of production problems listed by severity None of these, according to Gartner analysts. All

IT Spending 2020: Biggest Increase for Enterprise Software

By Dick Weisinger

Global IT spending is expected to overall increase by 3.4 percent this year to $3.9 trillion. In 2021, spending is expected to be more than $4 trillion. John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner, said that “we introduced the ‘and’