InformationWeek: The Business Value of Technology

IT workers at small and midsize companies bring home smaller paychecks than their enterprise counterparts, but they’re a bit happier in their work.

To find out, we surveyed 536 IT pros. While BlackBerry represents a median of 70% of company-purchased devices in use now, that number plummets to 25% when respondents look ahead 24 months. And, a mere 7% say they plan to increase their use of RIM products. While the future looks pretty grim, there are some moves the company can make—but they need to be bold, and fast.

Many IT organizations are still in the midst of efforts to move to Microsoft’s Windows 7 and as such are not ready to jump into a Windows 8 migration now—or, for many, anytime soon. Higher on the docket: Minimizing the need to worry about the underlying OS.

New technology will disrupt the networking world, which for decades has revolved around Ethernet and TCP/IP--and stalwart vendors such as Cisco.

Our survey finds that technology professionals don’t understand where HP is headed -- and where they do have a glimpse of the new direction, they don’t like it.

This hot new technology is overshadowed by poor licensing policy choices. Our survey finds IT committed to virtualization but re-evaluating its hypervisor strategies. Will VMware’s misstep let Hyper-V make inroads into enterprise data centers?

We surveyed nearly 2,000 business technology pros to get their take on AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile and found that the onus is on AT&T to prove it can live up to expectations. The alternative? Mass exodus.

Data center networking has largely revolved around two vendors.Our vendor satisfaction survey suggests this market may be getting much more dynamic.