The results of the latest Gartner CIO Priorities research are, in many ways, heartening for an industry that has been in something of a slump of late. Overall, budgets are up by 2.5 percent and the CIOs interviewed (some 1,300) represent some US$57 billion in IT spend. They are also, according to the survey, planning to spend the money.
Representatives from IBM's PC division (PCD) said last week that the sale of the PCD to Lenovo Group will not have any impact on product or delivery to customers.
The mobile work force is here. Wireless is here. IT managers who do not start taking proactive steps now, towards managing what is going to become an increasingly complex environment, will soon have to deal with a headache of mammoth proportions.
South African manufacturing concern, HellermannTyton, has migrated off its old electronic document management system onto a home-grown solution developed by Berco IT Solutions.