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			<description><![CDATA[Green IT is a popular term and one that lets companies beat their chests over how much they have reduced their carbon emissions. Nathan Statz investigates the real motivation behind the earth's corporate crusaders.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Falling printer shipments expected to continue after sharp decline during first half of the year]]></description>
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			<title>Portal potency</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Portals can be a window into the company's world and one of the strongest assets an enterprise can muster, though it takes more than a little insight to avoid becoming trapped in the maelstrom. ]]></description>
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			<title>Gartner survey claims software spending to rise in 2010</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The analysts at Gartner have released a survey showing that organisations plan to increase their software budgets in 2010]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Companies struggle to cope with wireless costs owing to poor contracts and international roaming fees]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Printer vendors could see more than US$13 billion swiped from their hands in the next 12 months as buyers look to cut costs]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Latest forecast sees 6% decline in spend across hardware, software, services and telecommunications sectors]]></description>
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			<title>CIO Academy comes to the Gulf</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Programme will begin sessions in Abu Dhabi and will focus on business and technology leadership]]></description>
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			<title>Let there be light</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Illuminating the path to insightful business decisions can cost a fortune, but what if executives do not know what they are asking for?]]></description>
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			<title>Business Intelligence market bucks trend to grow 21.7%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Strong performance in business intelligence and performance management software in 2008 unlikely to be repeated says Gartner]]></description>
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			<title>Indirect channel to claim more PC business</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gartner expects to see increasing share of PC market sales through indirect channels]]></description>
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			<title>Gartner: Semiconductor revenue to decline 22%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Analysts are predicting that worldwide semiconductor revenue will decline 22.4% compared to 2008]]></description>
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			<title>Gartner sees global slowdown in IT spending</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IT spending will decline in all sectors in 2009 says analyst company, although Middle East Africa region predicted for slight increase]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Research firm Gartner predicts market will experience sharpest decline in history in 2009]]></description>
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			<title>Back to the future</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The security arena has transformed in the region over the last year, and promises to become an increasing area of interest in the year to come.]]></description>
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			<title>Gartner says companies need to put more strategic emphasis on CRM</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Research VP says companies need to address integration of CRM solutions to drive business strategy]]></description>
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			<title>Firms turning to IT to weather financial storm</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GITEX: CIOs' budgets growing to help firms boost competitiveness, efficiency - Gartner.]]></description>
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			<title>Mideast CIOs 'up to five years behind West'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GITEX: IT professionals still seen as 'plumbing role' and not critical part of business - Gartner.]]></description>
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			<title>Mini-laptop makers out to muscle in on market </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Several hardware suppliers are already betting on the mini-notebook sector taking the market by storm as the day of the US$100 mobile PC draws closer. But what does it all mean for the Middle  East channel? ]]></description>
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			<title>Gartner identifies corporate telephony leaders</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The analysis firm positions Avaya, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel as the leaders, with NEC and Mitel as challengers in its annual report.]]></description>
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			<title>Centres of excellence</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Spiralling energy costs are focussing the attention of organisations on every aspect of their facilities management function. And nowhere is this more important than in the new generation of data centres, says George Bailey.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[New research by Gartner Research shows that CRM software revenue rose to $8.1 billion in 2007]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Worldwide installed base of PCs to double to two billion by 2014 says Gartner, with emerging markets making up 70% of the next billion PCs]]></description>
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			<title>Double digit growth for Middle East security market</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Regional security expenditure grew by 35% in 2007 says Gartner]]></description>
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			<title>Felt virtually everywhere</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  In a special report, global analyst firm Gartner examines how virtualisation is set to rewrite the rules of IT management, deployment, planning and purchasing.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Waste not, want not</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Corporate social responsibility is all very well, but a company has to answer to its bottom line, even when it's thinking about going green. Brid-Aine Conway asks if there's a way to save the planet and save on costs with IT.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Mobile money spinners</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With the mobile music industry set to be worth US$32 billion in 2010, content delivery specialists are eagerly spying new market opportunities in the sector.  ]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[IT security spending to reach $157.7 million in 2008 says Gartner  ]]></description>
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