Trends Report

Government IT Spending In 2008

More Work To Do With Smaller Funding Increases

April 25th, 2008
AW
Alan Webber
With contributors:
Bradford Holmes , Andy Salunga , Robert Muhlhausen

Summary

What are government IT executives facing in 2008? Forrester's survey of IT decision-makers shows that governments will — again — face significant IT challenges as they continue to try to do more with less. On the funding side, most respondents expect IT budgets to continue to rise, albeit more slowly than in prior years. The top technology issues for governments in 2008 include infrastructure consolidation, replacing server hardware, replacing legacy software systems, and improving storage.

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