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• HP: No plans to kill off 3Com products

  HP Monday said it has no plans to kill off any existing HP or 3Com networking products, but did not rule out such a move in the future.

• Data in the cloud

  Many organisations tell us that their fear of losing control over enterprise data is increasingly outweighed by the benefits offered by cloud-based services, such as lower costs for infrastructure, accelerated speed-to-market and more scalable solutions.

• 10 mobile technologies to watch in 2010

  There's no doubt mobile technologies have already made a big dent on our lives.

• Intel stays atop chip market but Samsung gains in tough 2009

  Intel remained the world's largest chip maker by revenue for the eighteenth consecutive year in 2009, despite an overall decline in the global chip market, Gartner said Monday.

• IT budgets up 3.3 per cent in 2010

  IT departments are considering new ‘lighter weight’ technologies in order to deliver results for their organisation, according to the Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) 2010 CIO Agenda survey. A shift in focus towards productivity among Australian and New Zealand chief information officers is in line with overseas experience, according to the analyst firm.

• Who's your boss? CIOs stepping up to report to CEO

  If reporting lines is a good indication of the relevance of a position within an organisation, the CIO is becoming increasingly important as fewer will report to people other than the CEO in the coming years.

• CIOs still tech leaders, eye business more: Gartner

  CIOs are still clinging tight to the organisation’s IT operations and are seeing more need to demonstrate value to the business, but would still benefit from promoting their work to the wider business, a new Gartner survey has revealed.

• Gartner releases 2010 end user predictions

  A new set of predictions by Gartner Inc. reports that by 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets, neither end user nor data centre.

• Gartner: Virtualized servers less secure than physical ones

  Through 2012, 60 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace, according to Gartner. Although Gartner expects this figure to fall to 30 percent by the end of 2015, analysts warned that many virtualization deployment projects are being undertaken without involving the information security team in the initial architecture and planning stages.

• 60% of virtual servers less secure than physical machines, Gartner says

  Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.

• Gartner releases 2010 end user predictions

  A new set of predictions by Gartner Inc. reports that by 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will not own any IT assets, neither end user nor data centre.

• Wall Street Beat: Nasdaq milestones offer lessons for tech

  The tech sector passed two poignant market anniversaries this week on its way to what investors and vendors hope will be a sustainable recovery from the recession and, in the best-case scenario, another boom cycle.

• Gartner: PC shipments to grow by 20 percent this year

  Gartner has raised its worldwide PC shipment forecast for this year, predicting growth of 20 percent compared to 2009, partly driven by growth in shipments of mobile devices like laptops and netbooks.

• Sun continues server sale declines in Q409

  Server revenue rebounded in Australia in the final quarter of 2009, with positive year-on-year growth of 21 per cent, according to the latest server market figures from Gartner.

• Oz IT shops can't change business culture: Gartner

  If Business Intelligence (BI) projects made difficult because business doesn’t understand technology – it is worse still, according to Gartner because "business doesn’t understand itself".