Business tech spending to hit $275.2B this year

Business tech spending to hit $275.2B this year 
IDC predicts business tech spending will hit $275.2 billion this year and $330.7 billion by 2017. Enterprise IT is forecast to hit $233.5 billion by 2017. Marketing will grow fastest, IDC says. "The connection between technology and business is accelerating at lightning pace as business users adopt what IDC refers to as the 'four pillars' — cloud, social, mobile and analytics," IDC's Eileen Smith says.



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How management IT expectations are taxing security pros

How management IT expectations are taxing security pros 
The drive to propel innovation by quickly adopting the latest IT solutions is pressuring enterprise security professionals to deploy software before it is properly secured, according to a poll of experts conducted by Trustwave. The survey of more than 800 top-level IT and cybersecurity specialists found that 80% of respondents had faced internal pressure, primarily from management, to roll out inadequately secured solutions, some of which were beyond the level of their immediate expertise.