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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?
Is it possible that consulting services would be among the first to see spending as confidence returns among business leaders?
Bean counters and CEOs are scrutinising IT spending more than ever these days, but that's not a bad thing for CIOs.
While viruses, worms and hacking attacks continue to evolve, the costs of security failure have about doubled for each of the last five years.
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