Enterprises Living On the Edge

Enterprises are focusing on edge apps for a number of reasons, including increasing demands from customers and business units, spending cuts for internally oriented technologies and, in some enterprises, flat or declining budgets. Edge technologies help reduce costs, improve service and improve competitive advantages. VARBusiness' own research, conducted in the first quarter of 2004, also gauged enterprises' interest in using their IT budgets to reduce costs and run their businesses more efficiently. Some of the innovative technologies enterprises anticipate to focus on this year include blade servers (33 percent) and information life-cycle management (24 percent).