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		<title>More signs of security spending growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsay Willott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT Boom Hunter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT spending]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;This time from the SME market, where ChannelWeb.co.uk reports on CompTIA’s research.  56% of UK SMEs plan to increase their IT budgets in the next 12 months, with a focus on IT security, and the number of UK firms planning to increase spend has grown to 56% from 54% last year (while the percentage of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;This time from the SME market, where <a href="http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2230163/uk-smes-plan-increased-spend">ChannelWeb.co.uk reports on CompTIA’s research</a>.  56% of UK SMEs plan to increase their IT budgets in the next 12 months, with a focus on IT security, and the number of UK firms planning to increase spend has grown to 56% from 54% last year (while the percentage of US firms planning to invest more has dropped from 64% to 52%).</p>
<p>Other interesting stats out recently highlight that <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">there is slowing growth in the services market (<a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessionid=DKFBXKSZ3NQCGCQJAFICFGAKBEAUMIWD?containerId=prUS21542508">IDC</a>), whilst Silicon says that <a href="http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39289579,00.htm?r=6">Datamonitor </a>is showing spending growth in healthcare:</span></p>
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