The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations.
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.
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.
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?
Is it possible that consulting services would be among the first to see spending as confidence returns among business leaders?
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.
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.
New storage technology can be frankly pornographic: it's big, it's sexy and you want it slammed into your rack right now but is a long term relationship more satisfying?
Never have I seen a stranger vendor "testimonial" given than that by the NSW Department of Primary Industry's Warwick Lill of Sun Microsystems at Gartner's datacentre summit last week.
With every potential information technology purchase now under intense scrutiny, a few software vendors are working to help CIOs look before they leap into big expenses.
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.
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IT services firms are expanding beyond their traditional role as overseers of networks, PCs and computer help desks, into "back office" areas such as accounting and human resources.
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
Microsoft will next week take on its key competitors with a new initiative for building self-managing computing systems.
Shoe boxes are for shoes. That's Adobe Systems' message as the publishing software giant pushes a new consumer version of Photoshop, its flagship image-editing software.
Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.
The new version of Microsoft's widespread Office software package won't likely spur immediate mass upgrades among businesses upon its release, analysts said, due in part to a complex set of added features.
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