Enterprise IT spending remains strong despite coronavirus

Despite facing the challenges of supporting remote workforces and meeting the online needs of customers, 58 percent of IT leaders expect to either significantly or moderately increase their annual technology budgets. The report from SaaS infrastructure platform OpsRamp also finds 73 percent of IT operations and DevOps team leaders expect to either accelerate or maintain digital transformation initiatives and projects, indicating the value of digital products and services in an era of social distancing. Investments are heaviest in information security and compliance (62 percent) to help protect remote workers from sophisticated cyber attacks; followed by big data and analytics (46… [Continue Reading]