MORGES, Switzerland,
February 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA
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 David Griffiths, VP Partners, Alliances and MSPs
in Europe, CA Technologies.
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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IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
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