Survey: Data Center Budgets Will Stay Pretty Much the Same in 2009

Of course, you only care if it's YOUR budget.

AFCOM survey indicates that nearly two-thirds of managers of large data centers will maintain or increase their budgets in 2009, despite the deepening recession. The remaining one-third will lose about 15 percent of their budgets, with much of the reduction involving travel and training expenses.

A noted data center industry association reported Dec. 23 in a survey of IT managers that nearly two-thirds will see their IT budgets stay the same or even increase in 2009, and that the remaining one-third will lose only about 15 percent of their budgets.

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Adjusting your budget in a volatile economy

CIO Jeff Rowley hashed over his 2009 IT budget with his business partners more than he ever has before. In his case, the business is the hurting state of Ohio, facing a 2009 budget deficit of between $733 million to more than $1 billion. Rowley is CIO of the state's Department of Natural Resources, overseeing an annual IT budget that hovers around $9 million.

His charge is to support his department's initiatives more efficiently and spend less doing it. Ohio's departments have already taken two across-the-board cost cuts, Rowley said, but budget talks have taken a different turn from past years.

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