Even in a recession, IT managers have to buy and maintain security and compliance software, and IT managementsoftware like IBM's Tivoli suite could be seen as replacing more expensive hardware alternatives.
The good news for CIOs is that a growing amount of vendor investment has been drawn to this market, which Gartner has named Data Center Infrastructure Management. nlyte software, for example, provides a modeling, monitoring, and managementsuite for understanding power and cooling in a data center and optimizing placement and configuration of racks and servers.
Its Rational Suite of software and information managementsoftware continued to suffer due to low demand and transactional rollover into the next quarter.