Smart savingsWhat will the Comprehensive

Spending Review mean for public sector IT?

Two thirds of senior financial decision makers in UK public sector finance functions believe that budget cuts from the impending Comprehensive Spending

Review (CSR) will impact front-line services.

They are expecting to have to

find £3.6bn in savings in their annual IT budget by 2013*

This equates to a reduction of

22.5% on the current annual budget.

* According to research carried out by ComRes and VMware in September 2010

Yet only 20% are actually ready to tackle

the impact of the cuts

We can help

Virtualisation, and moving to more modern ways of computing, can dramatically cut costs and make organisations far more dynamic…

…and ready to cope with future change

Don’t just believe usVMware has helped many UK public sector organisations reduce spending by hundreds of thousands of pounds each year through virtualisation.

At the same time virtualisation enables these organisations to improve their IT so that frontline services are maintained and even enhanced

These are just some of them

We’ve created a site to share news, views and best practice around cutting costs and increasing business agility through virtualisation.

Visit www.smartsavingsideas.com to: download the report and read how other public

sector organisations have cut costs while improving service delivery.