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To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.
Australia's major banks will continue to pursue huge technology projects that will fuel local IT spending for the next few years despite the global financial crisis, according to a leading local analyst.
While "cloud computing" is some way from being an enterprise reality, IT managers need to start planning now if they want to avoid being ordered by their bosses to implement technology from Google and close down their own datacentres, a Gartner analyst has warned.
Adopting Web 2.0 to increase collaboration within organisations opens the door to significant security risks which need to be addressed, according to Gartner.
Even Gartner themselves realise their presentations can sometimes be seen as 'same-old, same-old'.
Wireless broadband users in Australia could enjoy maximum surfing speeds of 75 megabits per second by mid-2006, analysts say.
Despite nagging concerns about its security, instant messaging applications are now mature enough for corporate use if Australian companies change their perception of the platform, says a senior Gartner analyst.
Gartner sees the next wave of technology--the confluence of wireless, real-time infrastructure, and service-oriented architecture--as a catalyst that could transform or kill entire industries.
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