Despite a budding economic recovery in 2010, confidence among IT decision makers in small business regarding IT investment continues to lag behind medium and large businesses. According to the latest CDW IT Monitor, only two percent of IT decision makers at small businesses expect to hire additional staff in the next six months.

Additional small business findings from the June CDW IT Monitor include:

• Twenty-four percent of IT decision makers at small businesses anticipate an increase in IT budgets, up three percentage points since June 2009.
• Thirty-four percent of IT decision makers anticipate investing in hardware over the next six months, a decrease of three percentage points since April 2010.
• Less than half (46 percent) of IT decision makers at small companies forecast software investment in the next six months, down three percentage points from February 2010.
• Despite anticipated IT investment that lags behind medium-size and large businesses, more than half (54 percent) of small corporations believe that investment in IT infrastructure helps their company’s performance.