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• CIOs must join the era of empowerment

  Talk to any CIO and one issue inevitably surfaces: How do CIOs cope in a world where they can’t keep up with what their employees are doing?

• Cloud Computing in 2011: 3 Trends Changing Business Adoption

  The business benefits of a cloud computing model have been well stated. You cut costs by switching to more flexible on-demand IT resources that can better handle the ebb and flow technology needs at a company.

• Oracle confining Java future to enterprise use: Forrester

  Oracle is limiting the development of Java by focusing the future development of the language on enterprise use, to the detriment of a wider, more diverse Java community, charged a pair of analysts at Forrester Research.

• Analysts report soft gains for IT in 2010

  Australia’s software market is bouncing back, but analysts say growth will be slow for at least the next three years.

• Forrester: Tech spending downturn is over

  The worst is over for technology spending and the sector is set to rebound this year, according to a new report from Forrester Research.

• Web apps eroding MS Word franchise: study

  Companies may use Microsoft Word for word processing out of habit rather than necessity and are beginning to consider other alternatives, as the web has changed the way people create and share documents, according to a Forrester Research report.

• Forrester analysts give tips on licence negotiations

  IT vendors may be growing increasingly desperate amid the global economic downturn, but customers must employ a range of tactics — not just bullying — to extract cost savings from them, a group of Forrester Research analysts said during a recent client teleconference, echoing the views of MarketShare's Jim Geisman in the previous article.

• Consolidation in management software likely: Forrester

  The days of referring to the leading management software vendors as the "big four" are numbered, industry watchers predict, as challengers to BMC, CA, HP and IBM now include a variety of competitors, ranging from starts-up to software giants such as Microsoft and Oracle.

• IT spending in US to increase: Forrester

  Despite the turmoil on Wall Street, US spending on IT will increase more than previously expected, though the outlook for 2009 is dimming, according to Forrester Research.

• IT cultures must fit with company values: survey

  As many as 85% of respondents to a recent survey believe the culture of an IT department can differ from the overall culture of a firm. The survey, titled "Does your IT culture need an overhaul?", was carried out by Forrester Research.

• Enterprise open source gaining traction: survey

  Most businesses that embrace open source are content to consume products rather than giving code back to the community, according to Forrester Research.

• Service level agreements not working properly: survey

  Many IT departments are failing to meet their own service level agreements, according to a recent survey from Forrester.

• Populism will drive the next IT wave: Forrester

  The next wave of change within IT organisations will be fuelled by the proliferation of consumer devices, social networking tools and cloud-based collaboration services, according to a report by Forrester Research.

• IT consultants jump on the green bandwagon

  IT research organisations have started weighing in with advice for CIOs, including podcasts, market research and weighty practical guides to cutting datacentre power costs and emissions.

• Study: Businesses don’t grasp web app security threats

  Businesses may unwittingly leave themselves open to application-layer attacks because they don't understand their networks lack defenses to deflect them, according to a study by Forrester Research.