{"id":115,"date":"2006-05-14T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/web2-0-symantec-cto-validates-spending-and-surge\/"},"modified":"2006-05-14T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T13:07:06","slug":"web2-0-symantec-cto-validates-spending-and-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/web2-0-symantec-cto-validates-spending-and-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Web2.0: Symantec CTO validates spending and surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a keynote at Symantec&#8217;s annual user conference, Ajei Gopal presented some key data points to validate the impending surge in tech spending. According to him, the IT sector as a whole is on the brink of a major innovation and spending cycle. He also presented a chart showing the IT-investments-to-GDP ratio growth overlaid with the advancements in computing and echoed the unabated progress in hardware; commoditization of memory, disk, CPU devices have reduced the prices by factor of thousands with net increase in ROI.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ajei_1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/mt\/archives\/ajei_1.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"338\" \/><br \/>\nIf this is an indicator of change, we are also seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/stories\/2006\/04\/24\/daily1.html\">spurt<\/a> in funding activity which is a strong supplementing signal.<br \/>\nThis is also changing the rules of entrepreneurship and the startup culture, with incubators like &#8220;Y Combinator&#8221; seeding companies for as little as $6,000 while trying to replicate the success of Flickr and del.icio.us (both got acquired by Yahoo); wherein Google is saying that the whole valley is the research lab and then acquiring companies for a little change.<br \/>\n<strong>Tags: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Web+2.0\" rel=\"tag\">Web 2.0<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/symantec\" rel=\"tag\">Symantec<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a keynote at Symantec&#8217;s annual user conference, Ajei Gopal presented some key data points to validate the impending surge in tech spending. According to him, the IT sector as a whole is on the brink of a major innovation and spending cycle. He also presented a chart showing the IT-investments-to-GDP ratio growth overlaid with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}