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 IT decision makers’ spending on security technologies will increase 46% in 2015, with cloud
 computing increasing 42% and business analytics investments up 38%.

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Enterprises are predicting they will increase their spending on
security technologies by 46%, cloud computing by 42% with the
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Cloud computing initiatives are the single most important initiative
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