IT Budget stories - Page 14

Many firms on tight budgets seek IT modernisation. Fronde's Mike Roxburgh advises investing in cloud solutions to reduce costs and drive innovation.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are falling behind in data security, says new research from Versasec.

Gartner figures show Australian IT spend is forecast to grow this year and on to 2017 - but which markets are the winners, and which are in decline?.

Worldwide IT spending to drop this year, according to Gartner, due to economic uncertainty and currency fluctuations.

According to Gartner, the average cost of business systems and network downtime is $5,600 per minute, which equates to $336,000 per hour.

Global IT spending to slow notably in 2016, growing only 2% amid economic instability in emerging markets and smartphone market saturation, reports IDC.

Nearly all enterprises plan to increase or maintain their annual spending on cloud computing in 2016, according to a study.

Gartner's Peter Sondergaard participated in the recent Wall Street Journal CIO Network conference in California, which produced a number of insights.

IDC is warning that the need is greater than ever for a detailed approach to targeting IT spend growth and opportunity. So where's the opportunity?.

Gartner says worldwide IT spend fizzled in 2015, which saw the largest dollar drop since the company started tracking IT spending.

Most Australian and New Zealand councils are aware of the increasing digital needs of citizens, a new report shows.

BI, analytics and cloud top the list of priorities for IT spending for local CIOs, while digital transformation is foremost in many CIOs minds.

As purses loosen, a new survey of Australian and New Zealand CIOs highlights areas of investment for 2016, with BI and analytics leading the way.

Higher education IT spending in the Asia Pacific region is expected to significantly increase by 2019, thanks to digital transformation initiatives.

Organisations unsure how to approach end user computing and manage device security, says 2015 Mobile Workforce Report.

Fujitsu has signed an $80 million managed infrastructure services contract with financial services company Link Group.

Gartner is predicting global IT spend across all verticals to decline this year, but there are still growth technologies within each vertical.

There's a new IT buyer on the block, with ANZ CMOs increasingly making IT decisions – and managing their own IT budget – according to a new survey.

The pressure on IT teams is growing and the cracks are beginning to show, with a significant number of IT teams wasting more than $100,000 every year.

Worldwide enterprise application spending is expected to rise, driven by modernisation, functional expansion and digital transformation projects.