Asia Pacific governments IT spending holds up as economies falter

Peter Dinham
Monday, 30 March 2009 08:01

IT Industry - Deals

“A massive push for nationwide e-governance initiatives by several countries in Asia Pacific has created the single biggest opportunity for enterprise networking equipment providers operating in the public sector vertical,” Andley said.

“A secondary growth driver is the slow drift of public sector and government organisations towards corporatisation, where they are increasingly being perceived as social service providers with stringent service level mandates.”

Survey respondents rated Cisco as the top enterprise networking player in top-of-mind recall, as well as their existing equipment provider in all the three categories of data networking equipment, voice networking equipment and network security equipment. Other prominent players mentioned included HP-Procurve, Avaya, Juniper Networks, Nortel Networks, D-Link, Alcatel-Lucent and Checkpoint.

Springboard’s research of the enterprise networking market covered 86 IT decision makers in the public sectors of Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore.