AIIA commends Victorian budget
The Australia Information Industry Association (AIIA) has commended the Victorian Government’s proposed budget despite the document’s lack of focus on information technology spending.
View ArticleGovernment agency IT budget cuts confirmed: Swan
The Gillard government’s treasurer, Wayne Swan, has indicated in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) that there will be a 20 per cent cut in capital expenditure for government agencies...
View ArticleGartner predictions for 2012: More Cloud, consumerisation, loss of IT control
IT budgets and responsibilities are moving out of the control of IT departments and into the hands of others, thanks to trends such as consumerisation and cloud computing, Gartner says in its vision...
View ArticleIT budgets up, but salary cuts still a concern: study
Companies are still looking for ways for IT to reduce costs, still trying to increase employee productivity, and still cautious about raising IT salaries, according to the latest survey data from the...
View ArticleCFOs starting to see the business benefits of IT: Gartner
The view of IT as ‘just another expense’ that seems to be widely held among chief financial officers is changing, according to Gartner. The research firm found that CFOs are now starting to understand...
View ArticleWhat are CIOs wishing for this Christmas?
It’s that time of year again for every CIO to reflect and think about what they want for the coming year ahead. No, this doesn't have to involve gadgets or really, really cool technology. Instead, it’s...
View ArticleNew round of criticism for HP's controversial open-source costs report
A report compiled by Microsoft and HP purports to demonstrate that the Munich city government's well-publicized switch to Linux from Windows actually cost more money than it saved has come in for a...
View Article4 Ways Federal Fiscal Austerity Will Impact CIOs
First there was the fiscal cliff. Now there's the sequester. Neither caused the sky to fall, but both will have a slow, steady impact on the economy. That means CIOs should tread carefully when...
View ArticleFederal CIOs Fret Over Budget Pressures, IT Talent and Cybersecurity
TechAmerica's annual survey of federal CIOs reveals anxieties over chronic fiscal constraints and lack of budget authority. But there's more: Add security threats and challenges of recruiting and...
View ArticleVirtualization could save businesses $6b in costs by 2020: IDC
If Australian companies were to virtualize their severs and physical infrastructure, $6 billion in costs could be saved from now to 2020, according to a new whitepaper by research firm IDC.
View ArticleIT budgets, headcount set to grow in 2014: study
Companies are still concerned about the economy, but that hasn't stopped them from funneling more of their revenue to the IT department, according to the latest survey data from the Society for...
View ArticleFollow the Money: CIOs Have Nothing to Fear From CMOs
CIO's Publisher Adam Dennison doesn't buy the notion that CMO budgets for IT will outstrip those of CIOs in the coming years, citing new State of the CIO research to prove it.
View ArticleWill cloud replace shared services in government?
The increasing availability of commercial cloud service offerings, combined with emerging hybrid cloud models, will challenge the value proposition of shared-service organisations.
View ArticleEnvironmental services company slashes $750k a year in software support costs
With budgets tightening for many CIOs, continuing to spend large amounts of money on software support and maintenance is not something to be taken lightly. The Australian CIO of environmental services...
View ArticleDigital, big data analytics on the minds of CIOs
CIOs really want to knuckle down into digital, big data and analytics, but their tight budgets make it difficult to do so, a new Deloitte survey has found.
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