For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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Executive Summary

While the overall outlook for IT spending in 2006 remains austere, enterprises are making significant new investments in hardware. Servers and PCs continue to dominate IT spending, accounting for more than half the IT hardware budget. In terms of infrastructure projects, disaster recovery, security, and compliance are top of mind, while enterprises are also reducing complexity in their server environments, leading to a healthy growth in server and storage virtualization technologies. HP leads as the preferred server vendor in more than half of the enterprises, and 60% of the firms surveyed only have one server setup. Of these, more than two-thirds are unlikely to change their supplier in the next two years, which makes the European server market quite challenging for vendors with growth strategies that involve displacing incumbent suppliers. Data center automation and business service management projects are increasing in importance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• An Overview Of 2006 Infrastructure Spending Priorities In Europe
  • Firms Make New Investments In Hardware
  • Server Complexity Needs To Be Reduced
  • Storage Continues To Be A Priority
  • Enterprise PCs Are Migrating To Laptops
  • Firms Reveal Increased Spending On Wireless LANs
  • Enterprises' Infrastructure Outsourcing Increases
• Supplemental Material

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