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• Tanner promises to lead Razor Gang in IT carve-up

  Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, has pledged to eradicate the costs of the previous government's "haphazard and fragmented" IT spending, but one commentator has argued that the government needs to spend more to make more of its technology.

• Cisco chief says IT spending will rise

  Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers on Wednesday gave an upbeat assessment of information technology spending next year, saying Cisco customers are "beginning to get their foot off the brake."

• CIOs see tech spending pickup

  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.

• IT spending: Slow to recover or ready for revival?

  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.

• IT firms expand from PCs to payroll

  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.

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  In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.

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• CIOs see tech spending pickup

  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.

• IT spending: Slow to recover or ready for revival?

  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.

• IT firms expand from PCs to payroll

  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.

• Survey: Security budgets on the rise

  A report has found that more than half the companies surveyed had increased their information-security budget in the past year.

• Stop wasting money on security

  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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