IT Spending in the large enterprise has stabilized and showing signs for the positive.

From our sampling, IT Spending in the large enterprise has stabilized for now.

Q1 over Q2 09 forecast is a modest 3.14%. Average in the past four years has been 7-11%. Present SI projects coupled with a sudden increase in client RFI’s, RFQ’s and RFP’s indicate a flat Q3, HOWEVER it also indicates we can be optimistic for Q4 2009.






Interest continues to be stable and or increasing in the following:

• Deduplication initiatives; (Can't help but enjoy the battles between the vendors and the push for both primary and secondary deduplication)
• Server virtualization Initiatives; (VMware continues to champion as Citrix XEN has increased success on the desktop.)
• Utility Computing Initiatives; (with long term interest into the private and public cloud)
• Utility Storage Initiatives; ( no longer autonomous from other virtualization initiatives)
• Network application acceleration, optimization and management initiatives;

Oracle is reaching for the Sun. We are still crossing our Cat6 wires in the hopes of Chamber's Cisco coming into the mix. Would put potential retro rockets on Cisco's strong push into the data center.


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