CA Technologies Partners Upbeat About Economy and IT Spending in 2011
MORGES,
Technologies partners are expecting a bright year ahead, with 65% predicting
an improved economy, according to the 2011 CA Technologies Channel Index. 54%
of partners expect a boost in customers’ IT spending, in contrast to the
preceding year when budgets were predominantly flat.
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The CA Technologies Channel Index reveals that the largest hikes in IT
expenditure will be found in cloud computing and virtualisation management.
Spending on cloud is set to continue its upward trend of the last two years:
60% of partners expect a rise, compared to 48% last year. 70% expect
increased investment in virtualisation management.
“The Index shows that many of our European partners are looking forward
to an improved economy. With increased spending in cloud computing, our
partners our capitalising on the huge opportunity it provides for growth. CA
Technologies is helping its partners assist their customers with their
journey to the cloud by acting as a single point of management for this
environment,” says
Over half of partners (53%) say that their customers are benefitting from
the scalability, and 42% from the agility, that cloud provides. Keeping costs
low is also a priority and partners say that customers using cloud are saving
an average of 9.7% from their annual IT budgets.
Different industries are transitioning to the cloud economy at different
speeds. IT/telecoms companies are perceived to be adopting cloud computing
the fastest (66%), followed by the media/internet (57%). Partners identified
the public sector (14%) as showing least inclination to move to cloud.
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company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and
distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT
environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA
Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control
essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT
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