Four Trends that Will Change Priorities

How do you "do more with less" and prepare for an explosion in bandwidth demand, a need to upgrade both software and hardware, and employees asking that work data be available on their personal smartphones?

The post-recession enterprise IT environment is only going to get more chaotic, nevertheless opportunities abound for the savvy IT manager, according to a new report from Technisource, a research staffing and services company with customers ranging from the mid-market to global Fortune 500 companies.

It's nearly a guarantee that organizations of all sizes will increase bandwidth in 2011 and 2012 to support growing multimedia within the corporate network. The main technologies driving this need are video conferencing and tele-presence, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and distributed storage networks.

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Mobile business apps are no longer a luxury, now a necessity at every level of the organization. Advances in Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies can put much of the corporate network in a worker's pocket. Handheld devices are but commonly used to access corporate e-mail and sales reports, and track supply chain inventory in real time.