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IT projects are becoming too big and too complex. We keep hearing of failed IT projects ranging in value from a few hundred thousand dollars to a few hundred million dollars (or more!).

Australia's professional association for the ICT sector, the Australian Computer Society, has launched its "2018 ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse report", highlighting "Australia’s ICT workforce grew from 640,800 workers in 2016 to 663,100 workers in 2017, an increase of 3.5%".

IT services deals "experienced a steep decline in 2017, both in terms of the number of deals and total contract value (TCV), compared to both 2016 and 2015", according to data and analytical gurus GlobalData.

A majority of Australian IT decision-makers believe reporting of data breaches to regulators will help prevent cyber crime.

Thomson Reuters' inaugural Top 100 Global Technology Leaders "identifies the industry's most operationally sound and financially successful organisations".

Global IT spending in 2018 is forecast to grow 4.5% to reach nearly a whopping US$3.8 trillion, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly IT spending forecast update.

More than half of IT decision-makers in the retail sector say their company will need to adopt new technology in the next three years to evolve and stay competitive, with 97% saying cloud-based solutions are critical to transforming the digital retail experience.

By Keith Buckley, Vice President Australia/ New Zealand, Riverbed Technology

The IT organisation is becoming more and more strategic in helping companies reach their business goals. Companies are using technology as a means to not just expose new opportunities and tap into new markets but find ways to relate to their customer base and drive loyalty. As most of us are well aware, the primary choice for businesses today is to move as much of their IT infrastructure to the cloud as the cost benefits and resource elasticity are very well understood as drivers of cloud adoption. An additional benefit of this shift has been the rise of DevOps as a standard practice for IT.

Having started his IT company at 12, Alexander Slade is now 21 years young, studying at Uni while running a very successful SMB IT specialist as chief executive, with big aspirations for the future.

With HPE suggesting its technology will be available well into the 24th century through last year’s Star Trek ads, it seems Scotch Oakburn College in Tasmania has seen proof of the future.

Memory and storage maker Crucial is proffering profitable advice on lowering software licence costs by making better use of your hardware, upgraded if needed, for long-term savings.

Many enterprises are slow to respond to increasing demand for mobile apps, with more than a quarter of enterprises globally still not having built, customised or virtualised apps in the last 12 months, according to a new report.

IT start-ups and small businesses have generally not found much to cheer in the federal budget, with some lamenting the lack of any direct support for start-ups and entrepreneurs.

 Australian organisations are spending more of their IT budgets on product development and digital transformation initiatives as IT becomes increasingly strategic at a time of “unprecedented change”, according to a newly released study by analyst firm Telsyte.

Non-IT business leaders are still yet to fully understand the benefits of Big Data and the wider impact on their organisation, despite new research showing that it has become fully embedded in Australian business life so that it is no longer considered “hype”.

Bruce Nixon, Holocentric chief executive has spoken to iTWire about the company’s strategy for success and its perseverance, innovation and lateral thinking to remain competitive and be successful in Australia’s tech industry.

There was a sharp increase in number of technology jobs created in IT, media and telecommunications in the three months from May to the end of July, with recruitment firm Robert Half seeing the “uptick” as a sign that employers are investing in workforce talent and that the demand for specialist roles will continue to the end of this year.

The results of the annual Best Places To Work study have been released by Great Place To Work, with IT and software companies dominating the charts.

NEC has appointed 20-year company veteran Takashi Tada as its new managing director for New Zealand.

Despite becoming increasingly more integral to the strategic side of businesses, many Australian chief information officers are concerned their lack of visibility in their organisations are hampering their ability to take on the role of a “strategic business partner” as IT becomes more important.