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Security, Virtualization Top 2010 IT Budget Wish List
by Don Sears
Information Security
45% find protection of customer data and company data as the most important area of IT in 2010.
Virtualization
28% plan to use this performance-boosting and efficiency-laden technology in 2010.
Data Center Efficiency
28% want to realize the benefits of energy-reducing strategies for lowering heating, cooling and maintenance costs.
Voice over IP (VOIP)
27% plan to implement telecommunications over the Internet, as VOIP technology has matured and caused major cost shifts in carrier consumption.
Software as a Service (SAAS)
26% expect to implement SAAS technologies that will allow easier software rollouts and upgrades, as well as lower annual costs, and will allow IT to focus on core competencies.
Business Intelligence (BI)
20% will take advantage of internal data to help make smarter decisions on business with BI apps in 2010.
Green IT
20% plan to take additional measures for data center efficiency and implement green system disposal strategies, as well as look to newer strategies that help reduce a company's carbon footprint.
Social Networking
18% plan to make social networking a piece of their IT strategy either internally for employees or by tapping into existing social networks for company branding and marketing.
Web 2.0
17% will look to those Web-based technologies that can replace aging software; supplement existing technologies with easy plug-ins; or reduce costs in office, human resources and organization technologies.
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Follow the money. Where there is investment, there are technology jobs and potential for hiring, says staffing firm Robert Half Technology. These are the top nine technologies and projects senior management intends to greenlight in 2010, according to Robert Half's survey of 1,189 CIOs in the United States and Canada. In this survey, CIOs were allowed to make multiple responses. Security, virtualization and efficiency in the data center lead the 2010 IT budget wish list.