If you still have any doubt the recession is really here, take a look at this survey of 275 members of SearchCIO.com and SearchCIO-Midmarket.com. Not surprisingly, it found that many shops will work with smaller IT budgets this year, and few, if any, will see large increases.

Many IT shops are scaling back infrastructure expansions and focusing more tightly this year on delivering business applications, dealing with security and meeting compliance and disaster recovery mandates. And if that news is not bad enough, 42 percent of large enterprises--companies with more than 1,000 employees--say they are reducing IT budgets from 2008.

For more on this survey:
- check out this SearchCIO.com article

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