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Entry posted Mar 02 by Joe Pucciarelli , tagged Budget, Capital, Executive Strategy, IT Spending, PlanningIT Governance: Budget Cuts, Long-Term Trends and Negotiating IdeasWhile 2010 opened on a positive economic note, in the past five-working days, I have had difficult conversations with three different organizations about additional, mid-year budget cuts. In all three cases, these multi-national corporations have apparently decided that their economic outlook warranted a downward adjustment. All three have started doling out additional Operating Expense (OpEx) cuts. In one case, a mandatory headcount reduction was decreed; in the other two, business managers were given the flexibility to choose between staff and other operating expense cuts.
Entry last edited Mar 02 by Admin , tagged Best practices, Cloud, Executive Strategy, Information Management, Regulation, Rich Content, Risk ManagementWhen It Comes to eDiscovery Technologies and Services, It's A Buyer's Market!IDC's 2009 Corporate eDiscovery Technology Trends Survey concludes that among the most litigious and highly regulated industries, average ESI collection volumes per matter are rising; At the same time, corporate eDiscovery technology budgets are flat or declining. The early results of the 2010 study suggest a slight improvement in budgets; however, the ESI volume trends persist. The corporate litigants' challenges greatly influenced the product and service priorities of the technology vendor community, and are reflected in the product announcements during LegalTech NYC 2010 (Feb 1-3). This year, vendors announced solutions that address the corporate litigants' demands for cost efficiencies and for enhanced risk management and legal strategies. These product releases target corporate litigants who want to take core e-discovery activities in-house and those who are rationalizing their technologies and service providers
Entry posted Feb 05 by Rick Villars , tagged Best practices, Budget, Cloud, Efficiency, Executive Strategy, Industry dynamics, Innovation, IT Spending, Operations, Risk Management, Storage, TechnologyIT Governance: Convergence! What Is It Good For?Following the joint announcement by Cisco, NetApp, and VMware on January 26, a number of my colleagues, including our senior Vice President for enterprise infrastructure, consumer, and telecom research (Vernon Turner), re-engaged in a what has become a wide ranging, and sometimes spirited, discussion about converged infrastructure. A number of product developments over the past couple years have been the catalyst for this ongoing discussion:
- The proliferation of "pre-fab" IT containers
- HP's pre-bundling of server, storage and network elements (Matrix)
- The Cisco/EMC Vblock infrastrucuture announcement last December
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