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Gartner has released a new forecast of Australia and New Zealand’s information security spending power between 2018 and 2019.

Global spending on 3D printing will hit USD $23 billion in 2022, driven by growing demand from new industries, predicts IDC’s latest report.

While cybersecurity has now become a critical business function, it remains a non-core competence for a significant number of boards.

An IDC report shows that the market is on course for a growth of 3.7% this year, slightly down from last year's 4.2%.

Locally, Australian tech spending is forecast to grow 2.3% to reach A$84.5 billion in 2018, with NZ to reach NZ$12 billion.

APeJ spending on mobility solutions is expected to grow 5.3% year over year in 2018, reaching more than $540.7 billion.

New Zealand businesses are predicted to reach NZD$65 billion in capital formation in 2017, and set a new record of $70 billion in 2018.

Gartner forecasts a 4.5% rise in global IT spending to USD $3.7 trillion in 2018, driven by digital business, AI opportunities, and SaaS solutions.

Gartner predicts a 4.3% surge in global IT spend, expected to hit $3.7 trillion in a digital transformation wave.

Australian information security spend is expected to climb to $2.8b this year, with enterprise security services a key market.

IT spending across Australia and New Zealand is forecast to exceed the global average this year, with Australian spend up 3.7% yoy and NZ up 2.7%.

A new release from Gartner has forecast worldwide IT spending to jump 2.4 percent in 2017, but some segments are set to decline.

IDC is forecasting IT spend to rebound from the second half of 2017, so what technologies are on the up - and which are dragging the market down?.

Growth in hosting and cloud services spend will outpace total IT spend growth this year, with a survey also highlighting the value of specialisation.

Local IT spend is tracking ahead of the global average with Gartner forecasting growth across all segments - except data centre systems.

The industry analysts say while Japan is the largest market in the region, it is New Zealand that will have the highest growth rate in 2017.

Technologies enabling DX will drive more than 75% of Kiwi IT spend by 2019 with 50% of all infrastructure and software spend being cloud-based by 2020.

Digital transformation will attain macroeconomic scale over the next three to four years and the channel will play a big part on the cloud front.

Local IT spend will continue to climb this year but while spend in some categories is increasing, others are falling. Gartner tells who wins and loses.

Organizations spending only 5.6% on IT security could still be vulnerable, says Gartner. Comparisons to average spending don't reveal enough about security.