Mon, January 09, 2012 - By all accounts the economy is stronger now than it was 12 months ago, but it is also clear that companies are still moving cautiously, and for the bulk of IT that means continuing to do more with what you have, which is at least better than doing more with less.

Fri, December 23, 2011 - Here's a New Year's resolution that you'll want to keep: pay less for nearly everything you buy for your business. I'm talking computers, printers, tablets, hard drives, software--the works!

Sat, December 17, 2011 - 2012 is set to be a year in which new opportunities start to rise for IT professionals, even though budgets are tight, according to the predictions of industry participants.

Thu, November 10, 2011 - Gartner is predicting that corporate spending across the world for a broad swath of security services will climb from about $35 billion today to $49 billion in three years, with the managed security services expected to jump most of all.

Mon, November 07, 2011 - We have a lean IT department. Its budget is well below the industry average, and my security budget is only about 3% of that. So, as you can imagine, I didn't hesitate to say yes when I was asked this week if I could spend $10,000 before the end of the month.

Wed, November 02, 2011 - CIO’s publisher emeritus Gary Beach looks at our annual State of the CIO data for clues to how CIOs manage their time and how well that aligns with their goals.

Tue, November 01, 2011 - Forrester Research finds organizations understand the importance of spending on business continuity and disaster recovery, but put it off

Tue, November 01, 2011 - Heightened awareness about stealthy network attacks designed to steal sensitive information -- what some call the "advanced persistent threat" -- is having an impact in raising security budgets and increasing executive management involvement in information technology, according to a survey published today.

Thu, October 27, 2011 - U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel hopes cloud computing, Web services and a new IT culture of sharing can reap huge savings and prop up Uncle Sam.

Wed, October 19, 2011 - th CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice.

Wed, October 19, 2011 - With their budgets seeing little increase, IT managers are being urged by Gartner Inc. to reexamine many of their long-followed IT practices and then, quite simply, kill them.

Mon, October 17, 2011 - Research firm Gartner Inc. sees another recession coming that will lead to tightened IT budgets at the same time that technology is being forced to respond to social and collaborative computing trends.

Thu, October 13, 2011 - More than half of finance executives now have negative views on the economy in a Deloitte study, though they still plan to boost capital spending.

Tue, October 11, 2011 - According to figures released recently by Kaspersky Lab, 1300 IT pros were asked about IT risks and security spending. Among large companies, the average security budget is $3.35 million, according to Kaspersky's data.