IT Budget stories
Teams are increasingly keeping briefs, data and presentations in one place as Canva targets office software rivals with a broader productivity suite.
Almost all firms are storing more because of AI, as archived data is being pulled back into use and storage costs climb.
European resellers will gain a simpler route to buy TrendAI's security software as Ingram Micro and Arrow handle billing across AWS Marketplace.
Demand for identity security tools is pushing Keeper to split its North American sales coverage between private sector and government buyers.
More than half of IT leaders remain unhappy with their resilience setups, as 76% still reported outages lasting over 10 minutes last year.
Asia Pacific buyers are replacing ageing storage to ready data systems for AI, helping Hitachi Vantara lift product revenue 52% in the region.
Rising memory and storage costs are pushing prices higher, threatening European PC shipments as buyers delay refreshes.
CIOs can keep existing ERP systems and still adopt agentic AI, as Rimini Street pitches a cheaper path away from vendor-led migrations.
Governance gaps are widening as 60% of CIOs plan AI agent investment within 12 months, a survey of 1,000 leaders found.
The recognition may help Bizzdesign gain traction with buyers under pressure to align IT spending, risk and AI-led change with business priorities.
Labour-heavy services face the biggest squeeze as AI shifts spending towards infrastructure, data management and security, Forrester says.
Smaller employers are using AI training to win recruits and keep staff, with 53% citing satisfaction and retention as the key payoff.
Misconfigured policy changes caused outages at 65% of organisations last year, as fragmented teams and tools slow hybrid-cloud security.
Rising investment in video tools is offsetting weaker demand for headsets and phones, leaving Europe's UC&C market increasingly fragmented.
Funding gaps and manual processing mean most post-trade firms are not yet ready for the UK's faster T+1 settlement cycle.
Most Indian firms now run workloads across public, private and on-premises systems, as cost, resilience and sovereignty concerns reshape cloud plans.
Budget limits are leaving most Australian firms exposed as AI-driven traffic surges, with just 17% saying their networks are fully ready.
Security and data privacy are slowing wider use, even as 70% of Indian banks and lenders run artificial intelligence in production.
Most firms are still using AI to speed up staff tasks rather than redesigning workflows, even as adoption jumps to 51%.
UK organisations can now run AI tools on domestic infrastructure while keeping data and prompts under their own control, CTI says.
