{"id":8716,"date":"2007-01-03T21:15:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2007-01-03T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"irish-government-spending-big-on-it-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8716","title":{"rendered":"Irish Government Spending Big on IT in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENN is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.ie\/frontpage\/news-9863057.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">reporting<\/a> that the Irish public sector is to spend big money this year on IT.\u00a0 We all know about the PPARS types scandals.\u00a0 This years spend is going to be focused on consolidation.\u00a0 The growing opinion in the Irish market is that the past spend on &quot;iron&quot; has often been unwarranted.\u00a0 Last year saw increased interest and marketing in virtualistion technologies for server consolidation.\u00a0 I also think that the irish market is starting to understand that Microsoft solutions are scalable and don&#8217;t require the distributed &quot;computer room in every office&quot; approach of the past.\u00a0 In my only brief encounter with public sector (a very progressive department) last year it was clear that there was keen interest in virtualisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENN is reporting that the Irish public sector is to spend big money this year on IT.\u00a0 We all know about the PPARS types scandals.\u00a0 This years spend is going to be focused on consolidation.\u00a0 The growing opinion in the Irish market is that the past spend on &quot;iron&quot; has often been unwarranted.\u00a0 Last year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irish Government Spending Big on IT in 2007&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}