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.
Companies are shying away from outsourcing 'megadeals' in favour of spreading smaller contracts between several suppliers.
The blame for poor quality data is too often laid at IT's door, when it should be the business taking responsibility, according to analysts.
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged the government's ongoing support for a substantial CSIRO innovation program, after reports late last week that it intended to lower the organisations budget by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out the initiative.
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.
There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.
New research suggests that IT managers aren't spending a lot of time stressing over their storage systems, but a little reflection suggests that they probably should be.
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
It's not everyday you look forward to a funeral, but I can't wait for the death of the business desktop PC.
Backup plans are almost ubiquitous -- and a good thing too. But have you checked the use-by date on yours?
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
Green IT has shifted way down the priority list for corporate technologists, according to analyst firm Gartner, which this week released the latest version of its top 10 strategic technology areas list for the coming year.
In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.
Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?
Apple has made a push towards enterprise with the release of its SDK roadmap yesterday -- but will enterprise take the bait?
Gartner analysts quiz Cisco CEO John Chambers, who says that soon, IT and business strategy will be so intertwined that we won't know the difference between them.
Many CIOs develop business cases for a project that are too tech-centric. Gartner's Marcus Blosch reckons CIOs should couch arguments for technology within the business' commercial objectives to prise open the purse strings and get the project off the ground.
Thanks to Australia and the UK, New Zealand's pool of IT talent is dwindling, and will present a huge problem as businesses increasingly want CIOs with business experience, says Marcus Blosch Gartner, research VP.
Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a recent study released by consulting firm Gartner.
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
Thousands of SMEs are expected to move to DSL broadband by the end of the year. ZDNet Australia examines the industry and shows how to navigate this competitive and confusing market.
They may not be perfect, but intrusion detection systems should be a part of your enterprise security arsenal.
Let's face it, mobile commerce never delivered on the hype that surrounded it over the last few years. But that doesn't mean mobile commerce is dead, thanks to a new use of an old technology.
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