Forrester Research identifies top IT Priorities for European enterprises in 2005

In a recent survey of large European firms, Forrester Research found that infrastructure consolidation will be a top priority during the next 12 months — especially for utilities and the public sector. Security and disaster recovery upgrades, packaged apps implementation, and PC refresh are also high on the priority list.

Almost two-thirds of European enterprises plan to prioritise efforts to consolidate existing IT infrastructure — a quarter of them consider it a top priority for 2005.

Nearly 60 percent of European firms rank the upgrade of their security systems as a high priority; and 48 percent of them intend to renew existing disaster recovery capabilities.

With IT working on consolidating existing fragmented infrastructure, security spending will gain more IT budget attention, increasing from 7 percent to 10 percent of the total IT budget.

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•Date: 8th March 2005 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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