IN SHORT: technology to raise IT utilisation under study

Asian information technology (IT) managers consider technology that can increase IT utilisation rates of computers and storage hardware as exerting the biggest influence on their industries, a published survey said on Monday.
Technology, called virtualisation, allows businesses to reduce their capital expenditures, said research firm IDC. IDC polled 427 IT managers. Virtualisation was picked by 27 percent of respondents as the most influential technology, said the findings.
Among the respondents were IT managers from India, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore. In another category, 62 percent of those queried said their top IT management priority for 2008 is increasing business efficiency through IT processes.