A Network World report (April, 2009) revealed that 1400 CIOs surveyed by the publication will spend 2009 budget dollars on 10 technologies they can’t ignore, despite the recession. CIOs are still investing in:

- Information security
- Virtualization
- Data center efficiency
- VoIP
- Software-as-a-service
- Green IT
- Business intelligence
- Social networking
- Web 2.0
- Outsourcing