CIOs everywhere are facing challenges adjusting to new and evolving pressures, but the vendors they work with are facing plenty of pressures of their own. Bob Evans at InformationWeek outlines the biggest challenges he sees facing the industry's 10 "most strategic" vendors.

For IBM, the main challenge is facing down some heavy competitive pressure from Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, Evans writes. For Oracle, it means withstanding pressure from IBM, HP and SAP, while remaining flexible enough to respond to customer needs. The biggest challenge facing HP, according to Evans, is identifying its unique place in the market. At VMware, the main obstacle is transcending the success of virtualization and discovering the next big thing.

Evans elaborates on the challenges for these vendors plus SAP, Microsoft, Cisco, Teradata, EMC and your outsourcer.

For more:
- see Bob Evans' post at InformationWeek

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