Recession IT

The bad news for IT workers is that the recession will cost hundreds of thousands of IT jobs across many different industry sectors.  The good news is that the recession will create many opportunities for IT to fill gaps in other parts of organisations that also face budget and head count reduction.  Those opportunities could be especially felt within the cloud based systems and open source.  Cloud and open source combine lower cost barriers to entry and can be deployed in much shorter time periods.

Every CIO/CTO and small business owner should be asking how their business can exploit the technology to gain competitive advantage in such tough economic times.

Every IT professional should also be asking a similar question; how can I help a business take advantage of the technologies? 

Spend Less on Networks: part 1

2009/10 wont be the year to go ask your CIO or CFO for millions of dollars on new IT equipment

In the network space that shouldn’t be too much of a problem

In fact you’ll be able to go to your boss and tell them two things:

1 – I will sign a deal this year that will reduce our spend on networks (relative and finitie)

2 – At the same time I will transform the network estate into a single global unified service with the latest collaboration technology without investing any precious capital

Enterprise spend millions of dollars a year on the run costs of their underlying infrastructure:

LAN, WAN, Voice, Mobile

Many companies spend millions of dollars a year investing in new equipment

There is wide variance in the way that enterprise procure and manage their networks

Improving on key areas of network provision will save millions of dollars