Brazil plans to increase its IT spending within the next quarters

A survey conducted by Double-Take® Software that polled more than 100 IT decision makers in Brazil showed that over the next nine months the country's IT spending will significantly increase. The survey, which focused on disaster recovery and virtualization, revealed that respondents plan to increase their IT and data center investments as the economy continues its recovery from economic collapse.

Main findings of the survey are these:

• Currently, just 61 percent of respondents have a disaster recovery plan in place 
• However, 80 percent of respondents have server and/or data center migration projects planned for the next 9 months. 
• 49 percent of respondents have a virtualization project planned within the next 1-3 months 
• 35 percent of respondents still do not use virtualization in their current data centers