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Companies are spending nearly a third of IT budgets on software upgrades

Enterprises are being forced into software upgrades that they can't really get out of, report finds
91% have upgraded hardware in the past three years just to maintain software
Enterprise protection legislation and software support obligations could be the answer

Legacy tech has become something of a hot topic in recent years with AI, but while hardware and data foundations have been core to the discussion around artificial intelligence, a new Origina report has revealed that around one-third of enterprise IT budgets are being earmarked for software upgrades.

The report found that 28% of large enterprise IT budgets are being spent on vendor-driven changes that they would not have otherwise chosen in a trend the company's calling a 'software tax'.

But more than just consuming budgets, software changes are also impacting worker time and leading to potentially lost productivity as a result.

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