The customers around the table are gushing in their praise for Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. One puts his arm round the Dutchman’s broad shoulders to pose for a selfie: “If that’s ok? I’ve got to get one.”
CIOs must move from quick wins to being the master of their balance sheets and major business operations, Gartner’s head of global research has claimed.
IT shops are seeking loans and lease agreements in rapidly increasing numbers as they struggle through a recession. The worldwide market for IT financing and leasing is set to exceed US$100 billion in calendar year 2009.
The days of referring to the leading management software vendors as the "big four" are numbered, industry watchers predict, as challengers to BMC, CA, HP and IBM now include a variety of competitors from starts-up to software giants such as Microsoft and Oracle.
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