Message #2605

[Shole]

Deferred IT maintenance is a ticking time bomb
31 December 2010, 5:00 am

$500 billion -- it's a number so big you'd assume it's a component of the national debt. It isn't. Instead, it's what Gartner analyst Andy Kyte calls the IT debt. "When budgets are tight, maintenance gets cut. After a decade of tight budgets, the scale of the maintenance backlog has created systemic risk, particularly for large organizations," he says.

Source: InfoWorld Top Stories