What CIOs Want

What CIOs Want

Written By
Michael Vizard
Michael Vizard
Jan 31, 2008
1 minute read
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If ever it was the best of times and the worst of times for solution providers, it’s now.

An exclusive survey of CIOs by The Channel Insider and its sister publication, CIO Insight, will reveal at the Ziff Davis Enterprise Channel Summit in Dallas Feb. 7 that while application services are the most used services provided by solution providers, the fast-growing areas that CIOs expect to rely on from service providers are security and disaster recovery.

This might give the average solution provider cause for joy, but another data point from this survey that will surely give solution providers cause for concern in equal positive and negative measures is that two-thirds of the CIOs surveyed said their companies are actively looking for new IT services partners.

Click here to read the full article on The Channel Insider.

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