Spending on security software across Europe will top 2.4 billion euros this year, with antivirus continuing to form the largest slice of the pie.
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.
Australia's major banks will continue to pursue huge technology projects that will fuel local IT spending for the next few years despite the global financial crisis, according to a leading local analyst.
The growth in technology spending is set to slump in 2008 due to an economic downturn in the US -- but Australia and New Zealand may escape because of our close ties with Asia.
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.
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.
In describing the current economic malaise as the worst for decades, Gartner CEO Michael Fleisher singled out Australia as a -bright spark" in an otherwise depressed global economy.
IT departments face increasing boardroom pressure in 2006 to contribute to business growth, improve competitiveness and increase efficiency, according to Gartner.
Businesses should no longer let IT staff dictate how a company secures itself, analyst firm says.
Four out of five outsourcing deals will be renegotiated during the lifetime of the contract, because many deals have been too focused on cutting costs.
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.
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.
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.
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.
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