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IT projects around risk management, post-acquisition integration and cost-cutting are among those most likely to be approved this year, according to analyst house IDC.

Other IT programmes won’t be so lucky however: the company is predicting some will be held back, trimmed down or broken up as the recession continues to take its toll.

We’ll see a mixture of things will happen dependent on your organization, we often hear the rumors that we’re not investing in IT, that we’re cutting costs not spending money. In essence though, you need to spend to realize real savings, of course changes in process, in the way you do business can save money, but ultimately issues like legacy applications/infrastructure, data center space or even things like the carbon footprint or new application/business requirements are going to result in investment.

We’ll see a switch from bringing on new applications (unless there’s a business requirement), to projects around:

• Reducing downtime
• Reducing support costs – including the hardware support contract
• Being more efficient in the data center
• Automating more of the traditional activities
• Improving monitoring or fine tuning it – application12 fails at 11pm, can we make sure the monitoring calls out the relevant teams
• Virtualization – we need to be more efficient and reduce the cost of doing business, the cost of servers etc.
• Look at the desktop – outsource it’s support, or consider VDI/thin clients

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