After seeing their budgets shrink by 8.1 percent during the recession of 2009, CIOs will have their spending remain flat in 2010, staying at 2005 levels, according to the Gartner Executive Programs group. As CIOs look for ways to keep costs down while increasing results, they are turning to approaches such as virtualization, cloud computing and Web 2.0 social media technologies, Gartner says.
– After suffering an 8.1 percent decline in their allowed IT spending in 2009,
CIOs will see a relatively flat 2010, putting their budgets on par with what
they had on hand in 2005, according to research company Gartner.
In a report issued Jan. 19, Gartner’s EXP (Executive Programs) group found
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