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While viruses, worms and hacking attacks continue to evolve, the costs of security failure have about doubled for each of the last five years.
Tech spending could accelerate toward the middle of next year, according to a poll of chief information officers, a trend that could benefit Microsoft and a few select companies.
More staff and greater bandwidth were among the requests on the Christmas wish lists of respondents to a recent IT Manager poll. But how are Australia's IT pros gearing up to turn dreams into reality in 2003?
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Australian businesses are struggling to come up with innovative ways to deal with budgetary constraints, yet still fund the IT infrastructure they need.
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