Sun's startup program has a false start
I went to a press event this week where Sun executives talked about making a frontal assault on Red Hats with Solaris 10. Sun is spinning up new services for life cycle management for its operating system in the Web tier, as well as OS migration programs and new...

Early admission for Vista?
I just finished reading Will your PC keep pace with Vista? and began to wonder how many Education IT people have begun to think about their migration plans for Vista. Turnover of IT employees in a university environment is such that many who currently support Windows XP on their campus...

Networking and security step up in Feb IT priorities rankings
Below is a summary of the latest findings from our monthly IT Priorities survey: •Software infrastructure remains the top initiative: Software infrastructure projects averaged 23% of IT spending in the last 12 months, but spending is expected to dip to 19% in the following year. Current spending on ERP projects...

Security moves back into top 5 IT priorities
With Labor Day weekend quickly vanishing into a memory, the team has just finished compiling this month's IT priorities data. The big news is that what happened last month with security is now pretty much undone. It is back in the top 5 list, just barely edging out IT management...

Security slips out of top-5 IT priorities ranking
August’s IT priorities data reveals a reshuffling of the most important projects as reported by IT pros. Security dropped from the fourth position down to six, opening the door for the first time for both Web technology and IT management to secure spots in the top-5 list. At the...

ERP top software priority among readers, says ZDNet study
ERP is the key software initiative organizations are now focused on according to the latest IT Priorities data. The software category as a whole jumped last month from the number four top IT priority to number two, stopping short of VoIP which remained untouched as the dominant topic on...

Hardware and IT management make gains
Server upgrades and consolidation projects are on the minds of many IT professionals going into April. According to our monthly IT Priorities survey of 500 IT executive managers, hardware upgrades moved up a notch to claim second place, just behind the longstanding number-one IT priority, wired and wireless. The data...

ZDNet study: Renewed interest in enterprise portals
In our latest IT Priorities survey, ZDNet Research found that enterprise portals are back in the spotlight as organizations with 500 or more employees plan for deployments in the short-term and 12-months out. ERP, Intrusion detection, VoIP, and infrastructure consolidation are also high on the priority list. Renewed interest in...

Datapoint: SOA is a priority
Wondering where SOA and web services rank in terms of IT priorities? Right in the middle of the pack. According to ZD Research (and compliments of our sister blog, Datapoint), the latest findings from our IT Priorities survey of IT professionals in organizations with 500 or more employees show......wired and...

ZDNet Research: networking number 1
Latest findings from our IT Priorities survey of IT professionals in organizations with 500 or more employees show......wired and wireless networking projects as the number one ongoing initiative.IT managers are keeping up with maturing standards and solutions for wireless and IP telephony deployment.Software infrastructure comes in at second place where...