Security and data disaster recovery rank among the top information technology priorities for 2004–a year in which overall technology spending is expected to remain cautious, according to a Forrester Research report released Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North American IT budgets are expected to increase to $729.2 billion next year, up 1.7 percent from the level anticipated for this year, according to a survey of more than Get Up to Speed on…<\/p>\n
Forrester itself says budgets could grow as much as 4 percent, as IT spending catches up with the economy. “More firms are saying they expect their budgets to increase over last year. <\/p>\n
More than half the companies surveyed listed risk management initiatives as their top priority for next year.<\/p>\n
Companies are also interested in upgrading their PCs next year, with 27 percent of those surveyed saying they expect to spend more–an improvement from 24 percent anticipated for this year. <\/p>\n
And the percentage of IT buyers who expect to spend less in 2004 declined to 24 percent, compared with 27 percent for this year.<\/p>\n
Software licensing and development, meanwhile, will be a more challenging environment. The percentage of those anticipating a 2004 spending increase in those areas fell to 30 percent, compared with 35 percent for this year.<\/p>\n
Although most companies are anticipating upgrades or a major applications deployment next year, any rollouts will likely span a long period of time, resulting in a decline in anticipated applications budgets next year, Pohlmann said.<\/p>\n
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