June 25, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Seems IT could only hold out so long without upgrading and updating the organization’s technology. Now, after many quarters of flat spending, companies are starting to relax the budget constraints that kept purchases at a minimum.
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Tags: increase, IT, spending
May 5, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
IT’s beginning to spend money again, and one place it’s going is server virtualization. In fact, it’s one of the first projects many business IT teams are tackling — probably because the savings involved are almost immediate.
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Tags: projects, servers, spending, virtualization
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Anybody working on electronic healthcare records paraphernalia can get set for a flood of federal stimulus dollars to wash over them.
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Tags: electronic records, federal government, grants, health care, spending
February 10, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
American consumers aren’t buying fewer consumer gadgets and technology items, but they are spending less on tech. That’s the word from NPD group, an organization that keeps track of such things.
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Tags: consumer, electronics, Gadgets, NPD Group, spending, technology
December 7, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Ever wonder how your elected representatives spend the money we taxpayers give them to staff and run their operations?
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Tags: allowance, Congressional, Member Representational Allowances, spending, Statement of Disbursement
December 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
They started out slow, but Cyber Monday shoppers upped their spending by 8% this year, good economic news for retailers and good news for our consumer-based economy.
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Tags: cyber Monday, online, shop.org, shopping, spending
November 4, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The old saying “Follow the money” has rarely been more important than it is in these days of government stimulus and bailouts.
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Tags: bailout, funds, government, online, projects, spending, stimulus, track
June 30, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck

If your IT department is nursing along old equipment because budgets have been frozen, there’s some tax news that may help you justify new purchases.
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Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, spending, tax break, taxes
April 13, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck

Yes, the economy’s lousy and companies are cutting back, but there’s one area of IT that doesn’t seem to be feeling the pinch:
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Tags: budgets, cloud computing, data center, Ditital Realty Trust, IT, spending, the Cloud
February 23, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Sure, a lot of companies are imposing a spending freeze to combat slumping revenue, but not every organization includes IT in the cutback.
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Tags: budgets, IDC, IT shops, spending