IT spending by enterprises is expected to see a revival this year following last year’s decline. However, IT spending of the 2008 levels is not expected to happen till next year. Here are some number forecast for 2010 by Gartner Fall in worldwide IT spending in 2009 : 4.6% Growth of worldwide IT spending in [...]

Google wave is touted as the next big thing from Google assisting in real time collaboration. So if you thought why it is so necessary, here are some recent stats from a Forrester report (the study is close to a year old, but still relevant) 99% of knowledge based workers in USA and Europe collaborate [...]

Facebook now has close to 300 million users on its social network. Ever wondered what it takes to manage the activities of so many users? 300 million users contribute to 25 Terabytes of log data every day (1000 times over daily volumes handled by US Postal service) 230 engineers are required to manage data for [...]

Enterprises are looking more and more towards the web in order to be able to communicate better with their clients. These tools are used not just to communicate with customers, but also with suppliers as well as for internal purposes. Here is the percent of surveyed companies using the following web 2.0 to communicate with [...]

Cloud computing and services could be generating craze, but still a whopping 44.1% of the small businesses interviewed do not use them. Here is a statistic on where SMBs use cloud service in their organizations in percentage terms: Data Backup : 16% Email : 21.2% Application : 11.1% VOIP : 8.5% Security : 8.5% CRM [...]

Businesses are using more and more Web 2.0 in their enterprise. This includes spending on Social Networking, RSS, blogs, mashups, wikis, podcasting, etc. Forrester estimates that the growth shall be 43 percent Year on Year with the spending reaching $4.6 billion by 2013.

A survey among IT decision makers’ perception revealed the following important statistics: 63 percent shall upgrade to Windows Server 2008 18 percent are already in the process of implementation 35 percent have their businesses equipped with server virtualization at some level 38 percent have no ideas towards server virtualization in the immediate future