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BREAKING ANALYSIS
As COVID-19 drags on, 2020 tech spending now projected to fall 5%
As the coronavirus pandemic grinds on, information technology spending is now projected to decline by 5% in 2020. That’s according to the latest survey data and analysis by Enterprise Technology Research. Although the drop represents a 900-basis-point swing from 4% consensus growth entering 2020, tech spending remains bifurcated, with some suppliers and sectors showing significantly stronger ...
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How CIOs and CISOs are dealing with the pandemic budget hit
Chief information officers and chief information security officers in some of the hardest-hit industries now see significant near-term and many permanent shifts to their information technology and security strategies. That’s the consensus of four technology executives at leading companies that are feeling the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. In this week’s CUBE Insights, powered by Enterprise Technology ...
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Analysis: Tech execs optimistic but COVID-19 wreaks havoc on small businesses
Despite COVID-19 forcing cuts in information technology spending, many venture-funded technology companies are relatively optimistic about their future, at least once the pandemic eases. But for the small businesses that employ half of U.S. workers, the picture is decidedly more grim. That’s the upshot of this week’s CUBE Insights, which are powered by Enterprise Technology ...
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The coronavirus fallout: CIOs now expect IT budgets to fall 4% in 2020
The impact on technology spending from the coronavirus pandemic continue to turn for the worse, according to new spending data from Enterprise Technology Research. Last week, we reported ETR’s results from more than 1,100 chief information officers and information technology practitioners and took the forecast to a slight negative based on CIO expectations at that time. As ...
BREAKING ANALYSIS
Analysis: Pandemic’s effects will now take IT spending negative for the year
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, the outlook for spending on information technology is getting worse and likely will fall into negative territory this year despite a boost from work-at-home technologies. That’s the upshot from the latest survey results from Enterprise Technology Research. Last week, we reported ETR results from over 1,000 chief information officers and IT practitioners, ...
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New normal: Coronavirus shifts IT spending to work-from-home infrastructure
Information technology budgets will be flat this year and potentially worse as the coronavirus pandemic takes full hold — and changes in how technology is deployed and how we work are bound to become permanent fixtures of the IT landscape. That’s the upshot of fresh data from the latest Enterprise Technology Research spending survey. In particular, ETR ...
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How digital events should work in the age of coronavirus
We’re going to take a break from our traditional spending assessments and share with you our advice on how to deal with the coronavirus crisis — specifically best practices in shifting your physical event to digital. The team at theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s video studio, is in active discussions with more than 20 companies that have ...
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The VMworld 2019 IT spending survey: containers, cloud, NSX and Pivotal
The VMworld 2019 information technology spending survey data shows that while customers continue to invest heavily in VMware Inc.’s products, organizations are doubling down on their public cloud commitments at the expense of incumbent on-premises infrastructure. In addition, the battle for market share amongst enterprise tech companies is heating up as share gains are the most obvious ...
THE SILICONANGLE INTERVIEW
As Oracle’s pioneering database machine Exadata turns 10, an exclusive look ahead
In the winter of 1984, four executives from California, wearing suits and ties, presented to a group of market analysts in a smoke-filled boardroom in Framingham, Massachusetts. From a startup called Teradata Corp., the executives were unveiling under a nondisclosure agreement a new “Database Computer” that connected to the backend of an IBM Corp. mainframe ...
ANALYSIS
As UiPath nets big funding, exploring the impact of robotic process automation
The forerunners of robotic process automation have been around for well over a decade in various forms such as Lean, Six Sigma and business process automation. But the leading companies in these fields didn’t really catch the attention of most observers. The same narrative is not being written for RPA — quite the opposite, in ...