Survey Finds Data Centre Budgets Holding Up in Recession
A noted US data center industry association reported Dec. 23 in a survey of IT managers that nearly two-thirds will see their IT budgets stay the same or even increase in 2009, and that the remaining one-third will lose only about 15 percent of their budgets.
That ought to serve as some relatively good news in this downtrodden macroeconomy.
Of the cuts that will be made in data center budgets in 2009, only about 14 percent of the already small percentage of cuts will involve staff layoffs, AFCOM reported.
More than half—about 53 percent—of the cuts will entail staff travel and education expenses, which is not good news for the conference business. However, 38 percent of the cuts will affect IT and support equipment purchases, including servers, switches, power and cooling, and other hardware.
The survey was taken last month by AFCOM, which bills itself as the "largest industry association for data center management in the world."
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