More than one-half of respondents said they will be spending more on technology than they did last year. Enterprise applications, handheld devices and security are the areas with the largest percentage of respondents reporting an increase in spending.

Study Highlights

• Ensuring compliance with regulations is a relatively new area that is impacting spending in almost every organization.
  
• Security remains the top issue for Network IT Executives for the fourth year in a row.
  
• 97% of organizations are supporting remote and mobile workers—a significant increase from last year.
• Storage capacity is expected to increase by 121% over the next 12 – 24 months.
  

Network IT Executives are looking to vendors for evidence of return of investment, and to be convinced that they are getting the most out of their budgets. The 2004 NW500 Study provides invaluable insight for companies who market and sell products and services to this group of highly influential Network IT Executives — the Network World audience.

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