Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending

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	Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending Gartner has lowered its IT spending forecast for 2012 down to 3.7% from 4.6%, meaning companies like Cisco and its competitors will be fighting harder for fewer bucks. Gartner says that growth rates in computing hardware, enterprise software, IT services and telecom equipment and services, will slow this year due to a series of factors. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now In this Issue 10 questions for Palo Alto Networks CFO Michael Lehman U.S. State Department investigating Huawei on Iran concerns The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services Sprint LTE due first in Texas, Atlanta WHITE PAPER: IBM Rewriting the rules of Patch Management IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager helps organizations automatically manage patches for multiple operating systems and applications across hundreds of thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status. Read now 10 questions for Palo Alto Networks CFO Michael Lehman Palo Alto Networks is a network security company that offers next-generation firewalls that allow granular policy control of applications and content. Read More WEBCAST: EdgeWave Protecting Your Organization from Internet-Based Threats This live product demonstration covers iPrism's rich multi-layered feature set and award-winning proprietary defense technology that protects organizations from emerging Internet threats including spyware, criminal malware, phishing and inappropriate content. View Now! U.S. State Department investigating Huawei on Iran concerns The U.S. Department of State said on Wednesday it is investigating Huawei Technologies for allegedly providing censorship and mobile phone tracking technology to Iran, following a request from six U.S. lawmakers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper The Hidden Drag on VM Performance Read expert advice on avoiding common configuration errors and best practices to ensure optimized VM performance. Learn More The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services InfoWorld's Test Center unveils the 2012 Technology of the Year Awards. Read More Sprint LTE due first in Texas, Atlanta Sprint Nextel will launch LTE in the first half of this year, most likely beginning in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, Texas, and Atlanta, the company announced on Thursday. Read More
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