How branch office locations are managed is largely dictated by budget

By Robin Gareiss, Network World, 04/18/06

With an unlimited IT budget, most CIOs would prefer to have an IT administrator at every branch location.

But given that unlimited IT budgets are about as common as a 90-degree winter day in Chicago (sans global-warming speculation), they need to find other solutions in most cases. Cost is typically what drives organizations to have a central IT staff managing dozens or hundreds of branch locations.