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January/February 2014

the stAte Of the MArkets

Survey: Improving outlook for IT market in 2014

IT professionals optimistic about hiring, revenues, and infrastructure investments
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piceworks, the vertical network for of those surveyed expect their organiza- productive.”
als will prioritize hardware investments
IT, announced the results of a new tions’ revenues to increase and 45 percent The report, ”2014 State of IT Budget in 2014 including desktops, laptops, net-
survey examining the 2014 spend- expect company headcount to rise. Report” found that IT professionals plan to
working and server solutions. Seventy-nine
percent of those IT professionals plan to ing priorities of IT professionals in North “Improvements in the North American spend 44 percent of their 2014 IT budget
purchase desktops and 71 percent will America as well as their view on growth economy coupled with aging applica- on hardware solutions, 31 percent on soft-
invest in laptops this year. Additionally, 73 within their organizations. On average, IT tion and hardware infrastructures, such ware products, and 14 and 11 percent on
percent will purchase networking solutions professionals surveyed plan to invest more as Windows XP-based environments, hosted/cloud-based and managed services
and 69 percent will invest in new servers.
than $300,000 on IT products and services are driving IT spending this year,” said respectively. Additional highlights from the
Desktops and laptops will account for this year, and 79 percent said their 2014 Kathryn Pribish, Voice of IT program man- survey include:
an average of 26 and 14 percent of the sur- IT budgets would increase or remain the ager at Spiceworks. ”IT professionals are IT professionals prioritizing hard-
veyed IT professionals’ hardware budgets
same over last year. Respondents are also optimistic about the prospects for growth cautiously optimistic and are investing in the technologies that will drive their organi- ware investments in 2014
See SURVEY, page 26
within their companies. Fifty-seven percent
zations forward and make employees more
According to the survey, IT profession-

Allworx announces
system software
7.6 released

Allworx enhances dial plan,

streamlines administration in
ystem Software Release 7.6
SA
llworx Corp., part of Windstream,
announced the immediate availabil-
ity of its System Software release
7.6 for its popular line of VoIP communica-
tion systems.
This latest release is designed to increase
the geographic reach of Allworx products
by adding flexibility to its customizable
dial plan and improved Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP) messaging. Additionally,
several web administration improvements
have been added, continuing Allworx’s
reputation for offering the easiest SIP-
based phone system in the marketplace to
WHEN you usE prEmiEr CompoNENTs, program and manage. The improvements
included in the
you gET prEmiEr pErformaNCE
7.6 release streamlines management
tasks by providing tailored and specif-
ic information in several locations and
increasing the flexibility of Automatic Call
Distribution queue and agent assignments.
The enhanced external dial plan makes it
easier for all users, including international
customers, to program the dialing behavior
of the Allworx system. To facilitate imple-
mentation for all customers, but especially
those with multiple locations, dial plans
can also be imported and exported by the
server, including internal, emergency and
external dialing rules.

”It has always been our intention to
broaden the number of markets where
Allworx could be sold, and this latest
System Software update is another step
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providers can – premier everything. Our full-featured Hosted UC Hasenauer, vice president and general man-
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their operations in select international mar-
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kets. %
For more visit www.allworx.com