If you regard the federal government as your guide in IT spending, you’ll target most of your funds on backup and recovery solutions, while spending very little on cloud computing.
That’s what CompTIA – a nonprofit association for the IT industry – determined in its second annual Government IT Purchase Plans study. The goal of the government’s upcoming IT spending is to increase efficiency while reducing long-term costs.
Examining government spending-priority lists, the study found backup and recovery on 39 percent of the lists, as the most popular category. Security applications were next at 37 percent. Virtualization solutions followed at 30 percent, and content-management at 24 percent. Way down the lists were cloud computing and unified communications, both at 18 percent.