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• Businesses will blow IT budgets this year: Gartner

  After low year-end spending in 2003, businesses are likely to spend more on information technology than the amount they have budgeted for 2004, according to market research firm Gartner.

• 2004: The year of controlled spending?

  Companies are predicting bigger IT budgets next year - but how much bigger and what technologies and trends will drive tech investment during the next 12 months?

• Gartner: 'Wake up IT, you work in business'

  To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.

• IT consultants: barometer of IT spending?

  Is it possible that consulting services would be among the first to see spending as confidence returns among business leaders?

• Secure your IT: Get a crystal ball

  Security is in a "trough of complacency" in the boardroom but getting it back on the agenda depends on security officers taking a different approach -- evaluating the benefit of protecting against tomorrow's threats, not yesterday's, according to one analyst.

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  Keeping the costs of storage down

  Some future trends in storage are obvious: we'll need more of it, it'll be cheaper per megabyte, and a lot of it will be virtualised.

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• IT consultants: barometer of IT spending?

  Is it possible that consulting services would be among the first to see spending as confidence returns among business leaders?

• Fact: Heavy IT spend equals bigger profits

  Companies that spend above the average amount on IT can make up to 36 per cent more profit than their techno-phobic competitors, according to the latest research.

• Cutting costs for your IT budget

  IT departments are under pressure to cut costs and show returns on investment. Take a look at these budgeting strategies.

• Who guards the guards: Storage

  Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.

• CIOs under pressure to deliver business growth in 2006

  IT departments face increasing boardroom pressure in 2006 to contribute to business growth, improve competitiveness and increase efficiency, according to Gartner.

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• Intel wireless plans begin with new chip

  Intel is betting that wireless technology will be the biggest thing since the browser, and new notebooks coming Wednesday will be an early indication of whether the company is right.

• Battling for better backup

  How can Australian businesses configure backup software so that it reduces rather than increases workloads, and perhaps even provides some return on investment in the process?

• Instant messaging for business: 3 packages tested

  The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?

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