Analyst group Gartner claims that almost three quarters of American companies feel safer than they were a year ago but only 22 percent of Australian firms feel the same way.
Investing in a new security product can be as damaging to a company as buying old technology, according to research group Gartner.
Enterprise spending on information and communications technology in Australia next calendar year is likely to climb over the AU$40 billion mark, fuelled by year-on-year growth of around 4 percent, tech analysis company Gartner said
Worldwide software spending should stage a modest recovery this year, after several years of decline, according to a study released Monday by research firm Gartner Dataquest.
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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.
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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.
Is it possible that consulting services would be among the first to see spending as confidence returns among business leaders?
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.
Most IT analysts have been predicting gloom and doom for the IT industry for the last couple of years. One firm now sees a few rays of light. Read these contrasting views to help make up your own mind.
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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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