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  • Aust and Kiwi CIOs bank on higher budgets

    Australian and New Zealand chief information officers (CIOs) expect IT budgets to increase by 3.6 percent in 2005, higher than last year's 1.2 percent and well above the 2005 global average of 2.5 percent, according to Gartner.

  • One in three IT projects exceed budget

    A third of IT projects carried out in the private sector runs between 10 and 20 percent over the original budget, according to a CIO survey.

  • Australian ICT industry worth $123 billion

    Australia's ICT industry for the year to 30 June 2007 made $123 billion and employed just under 300,000 people, paying $21 billion in wages, according to numbers released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

  • Security spend triples, breaches fall 30 percent

    A UK government-sponsored security survey reports that security breaches have fallen by a third in the past two years but spending on security has increased significantly.

  • AusCERT ditches annual e-crimes survey

    The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) will not be publishing its annual e-crimes survey this year because the federal government has given funding to the Australian Institute of Criminology instead.

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  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Mission-critical now a meaningless phrase

    If you think two-thirds of your IT is mission-critical, you're either running an incredibly lean and efficient operation or you haven't got a clue how many applications you have and which ones you need to manage.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    How sloppy is your network?

    Every IT administrator knows the consequences of network downtime -- mass staff whining, a total help desk meltdown, and really vicious complaints from the same senior managers who stripped the budget of the funds required to keep the network running in the first place. But it's not always something that can be avoided.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Integration: It's killing us

    Vendor surveys coincidentally always seem to bring up results that say "you need to buy our product".

Features and Case Studies (115)

  • CIOs: Integration is in, CRM is out

    A survey of chief information officers has found that while IT departments are investing in new software, they are wary of CRM packages.

  • Survey: CIOs not sold on Cisco storage

    Networking giant Cisco Systems' new ventures in the storage market have piqued the interest of IT buyers, but the company may have to "earn its stripes," according to a new survey.

  • Survey finds little sign of IT rebound

    Information technology spending has stabilised at the start of 2003, but talk of general improvement for the rest of the year is premature, according to a new survey.

  • Study: IT budgets 'anemic'

    IT budgets will increase a mere 2.7 percent over the next six to 12 months, according to a recent survey of CIOs and other IT purchasing executives.

  • Tech spending could rise in 2003

    Although many companies spent less on technology this year than originally budgeted, spending could increase modestly next year, according to a new survey from Morgan Stanley.

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