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• What's in the Tech Crystal Ball For 2011?

  Market research firm IDC makes a number of tech-related predictions near the end of every calendar year, but its prognostications for 2011 may well be among the company's most dramatic yet.

• 'Year of the virtual desktop' a flop so far

  More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical kind, sales of desktop virtualization products are growing at a rate "that looks about the same as in 2009," according to Ian Song, analyst for International Data Corp.

• Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer

  I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the "2010 Digital Universe Study".

• A Big Year for 'Socialytic' Applications?

  What's next for business applications in 2010? IDC Predictions 2010, a new report by IDC's Chief Analyst Frank Gens, is saying this is the year for "socialytic" apps, a "new mashed-up generation of business applications that leverage social and collaborative networks and derive insights from them." (IDC is a sister company of CIO publisher IDG.)

• 2010 tech forecasts: What the accurate analysts predict

  A venerable New Year's tradition in the tech world entails trotting out year-old predictions by analyst shops and laughing at their off-base prognostications. But here's a surprise: The two biggest analyst firms still standing -- Gartner and IDC -- did a pretty good job a year ago forecasting the shape of IT in 2009, as did the smaller Forrester Research and 451 Group.

• Q&A: IDC Forecast for Management 2009

  Thanks to the global financial crisis, IDC’s Forecast for Management Survey 2009 covers a year in IT unlike any other -- and the economic turbulence is reflected in the results.

• Mind Your Own Business Intelligence

  When I saw in IDC’s latest Forecast for Management Survey that business intelligence and security were no longer in the list of top 10 CIO priorities, I almost spilled my coffee. Have we learned nothing from the last 12 months?

• Sounding Board: IDC's Forecast for Management Survey 2009

  Australian CIOs respond to the latest Forecast for Management Survey from IDC

• CIO Briefing Wrap-up: Virtualisation - A Reality Check

  CIOs from a wide range of industries and government organisations gathered in Sydney and Canberra recently to examine best practices for avoiding common virtualisation headaches, as well as how to reap maximum efficiencies and cost-savings from virtualisation projects.

• Panel Discussion: Virtualisation -- A Reality Check

  A complete transcript of the panel discussion from the recent CIO Breakfast Briefing, Virtualisation -- A Reality Check, featuring Brian Ott, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Unisys internal IT organisation, Jean-Marc Annonier, Research Manager for IT Spending, IDC Australia and Matt Rodgers, Editor of CIO Australia.

• CIO's Virtualisation Breakfast Briefing: Slideshow

  The event examined best practices for avoiding common virtualisation headaches, as well as how CIOs can reap the maximum efficiencies and cost-savings from virtualisation technologies.

• Customer care emerges as key investment area during the recession: IDC

  Customer care is emerging as a key IT investment area for CIOs in the current downturn, according to the findings of a new IDC poll.

• CIO Summit 2009 Wrap

  CIO Magazine's roundup, and ongoing coverage, of the CIO Summit 2009.

• CIO Summit 2009: CIOs in the middle of a technology renaissance

  Despite being in the middle of a major recession, CIOs can look forward to a major period of growth through to 2012, according to IDC’s chief research officer, John Gantz.

• A/NZ data to grow 5 times over the next 4 years: IDC

  Data growth rates continue to rise despite the continued global financial crisis, according to the latest Digital Universe report from IDC.