IT priorities 2015: Desktop IT investments shift to the cloud

March 17, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Cliff Saran.

The use of cloud applications for desktop IT is gaining ground. IT decision-makers are spending more on cloud, while hardware and software investments are decreasing. The growing acceptance of cloud applications will influence future desktop strategies as businesses move away from traditional Windows-based PC upgrades.

The TechTarget IT Priorities 2015 survey reported that IT spending on cloud computing ranked third (39%) behind spending on hardware (45%) and software (48%). When asked which areas of their IT budgets would decrease, 63% of IT decision-makers said they would spend less on hardware and 49% said they would spend less on software…

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