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Technology Spending: Gartner Forecasts Slight Uptick in Global IT Spending for 2012

By Dick Weisinger

Despite doom and gloom headlines about the financial crisis in Western Europe, and slow growth in both the US and China, Gartner, after revising their global IT spending forecast for the remainder of 2012, actually increased their forecast modestly, from…

Enterprise Software: Consumerization of IT Includes Greater Enterprise Use of the Python Programming Language

By Dick Weisinger

As enterprises increasingly adopt more technology originating from consumer technologies, like social media and collaboration tools, the patterns used for implementing those technologies are being adopted too.  And that includes ‘consumer technology’ programming languages.  Python and PHP are two languages that…

Enterprise IT: Many Executives Want to Tear it Down and Start Over

By Dick Weisinger

In just four years time the role of Enterprise IT and CIOs is expected to change dramatically.  Researchers Jeanne G. Harris and Allan E. Alter at Accenture’s Institute for High Performance have conducted and published the results of a survey…

Government IT: Budgets to Shrink Over Coming Years

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is predicting a drop in US government spending on IT by as much as 8 percent in 2013.  IT spending for 2012 is forecast to be $79.2 billion, but in 2013, that’s expected to slip to $75.2 billion.  In…

Data Centers: Building the Infrastructure of the Future

By Dick Weisinger

Ellen Messmer, senior editor at Network World, recently reported Gartner’s 10 top trends in IT infrastructure that were outlined by Dave Cappuccio, Gartner Chief of Research,  in a keynote address at Gartner’s Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit. Tablet Proliferation – Tablets like the…