...Not yet. That is basically what the annual Purchasing Survey Report conducted by TechTarget says. The survey is conducted last spring and has more than a thousand respondents, nearly all of them in the United States.

First the somewhat good news: even though a massive 20 percent of data center managers say they are facing budget cuts, that is down from 40 percent last year. 46 percent even anticipate a budget increase.

But now the somewhat sobering personal conclusion: To be honest, that is still not the most reassuring thing I have laid my eyes on, as last year was a tried and true massacre. You would think it should stop. While it slows down, it does not stop.

Some other eye catchers:

-'Green' is actually declining in interest, as only a third has checked is as 'very important. Managers do keep spending on their infrastructure though, so that might be just symbolic.

- Only 8 percent of surveyed are planning to adopt (public) cloud computing, That's extremely poor.

- System management is getting more and more popular as a spending area.

- Blade servers are suffering a demasque. Where you would expect een increase in use, it is actually dropping. Apparently, data centers are throwing them out.

- Hyper-V is not really taking off, with a total of 10 percent of managers saying they are using it (4 percent Hyper-V, 6 percent Hyper-V R2). Give it time though, it hasn't been that long on the market.