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• Aussie IT spend to increase in 2019, despite recession rumours and trade war turmoil

  Australia’s IT spend will increase this year to $93.3 billion, according to Gartner forecasts.

• How to balance cloud investment risk

  The C-suite and boards of directors often think about investment decisions under three key pillars – Will this decision make money? Will it save money elsewhere? And what is the risk?

• The path to 'Exponential IT'

  In today’s world, IT systems need to be agile enough to ride not only every technological wave but also the rapidly evolving industry trends and changing customer expectations impacting each business.

• How CIOs Can Become Business Heroes

  Columnist Michael Hugos offers clear directions for how CIOs can open the exit door from the techie trap.

• As CMOs grab IT budget from CIOs, cloud capex and opex shift

  If analysts are correct, and the CMO eventually wrests control of the IT budget from the CIO, then spending on cloud computing will get a lot less predictable and a lot more complicated.

• Retail turnover grows 0.5% in June

  Retail turnover showed signs of improvement in July, according to ABS data, while private capital expenditure is still increasing

• Qantas cuts capex, aircraft orders

  Qantas (ASX:QAN) has reduced its planned capex and spending on aircraft capacity for the remainder of the year and FY12 due to slowing growth in domestic demand

• RBA predicts rising business investment

  The RBA forecast solid improvements in business capex, employment and retail spending at its recent board meeting, but warned the Queensland floods could shave half a point from Q3 growth

• ASX to build new $32m data centre

  The data centre, which will be near Sydney's CBD, will support the introduction of new services

• 4C Security investors agree to share placement plans

  The company will raise up to $1.05m to repay debt and fund its operations