IDC news from FierceCIO

The energy costs of operating data centers are high, and on the rise. IDC forecasts that IT spending required just to cool and power spinning disk drives will reach $1.8 billion by the end of this Read more...

A new research report has found that IT executives are confident they can respond to e-discovery litigation requests given their significant investments in records management, archiving and Read more...

A new wave of information workers are using multiple devices and applications, meaning that CIOs must begin making plans to accommodate this next-generation workforce. A worldwide study done for Read more...

If your data center processing needs are growing and you don't have the capacity to handle it, there are options available for CIOs. Many growing IT shops, short on servers, are now outsourcing their Read more...

While a company's managers may not always be tech savvy, they would be wise to embrace the expertise of a CIO, according to research firm IDC. In today's topsy-turvy and competitive world, a manager Read more...

The digital world is growing so fast that by 2011 it will be 10 times what it was in 2006, according to a new report by IDC. The report, called The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe, pointed to Read more...

There's a growing demand for archiving software among CIOs who want to protect their systems from incidents involving disaster recovery and business continuity, according to market research firm IDC, Read more...

Global IT spending is expected to slow down in 2008, according to a new report from research firm IDC. The report says that total worldwide IT spending will grow from 5.5 percent to 6 percent, down Read more...

If you break it, you own it. That's an old saying for anyone in the wrong place at the wrong time. For CIOs, the trick is to take the lead in dealing with security issues, fixing them before they Read more...

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz was in Brazil last week confirming his belief that the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China deserve to be directly on his radar. While in the Read more...