The Top 3 CIO priorities according to Gartner are:
1. Cloud Computing
2. Virtualization
3. Mobile Computing
Gartner predicts that IT spending in 2011 will grow only 1% and IT spending will not return to 2008 high levels until 2014.
Today only 3% of companies have more than 50% of their IT in the cloud, but Gartner predicts that by 2014 43% of companies will have more than 50% of their IT in the cloud!
Source: CIO Insight
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