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 April 23, 2009  — Computerworld Australia — IT spending in infrastructure and operations projects across Australia are expected to remain healthy in 2009 according to new research by Gartner.

According to the research firm, IT projects remain a priority amongst most Australian companies, including virtualisation and green IT projects. But despite this, a quarter of companies surveyed reported that they had cancelled IT projects due to the global financial crisis.

“IT infrastructure remains the biggest area for IT spending within Australian organisations and it also represents the biggest opportunity to drive operational efficiencies and minimise costs,” Gartner managing vice president Matthew Boon said.

The survey showed that IT hardware investments, such as client computing, printing devices, storage and servers, is expected to stay the same.

An interesting article and we’ll have to see, this tends to be a sector thing, as one sector does badly, another tends to do not so badly. At the same time, those longer term infrastructure projects that we’ve been buying into, virtualization, data center consolidation should all create opportunities. We’ll have to see how things go for the rest of the year, I keep hearing that things in May/June are going to pick up in the UK – here’s hoping so for all concerned.

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