Microsoft has quietly withdrawn one of its most popular free Office add-ons in order to pave the way for a paid version of the product.
The National Australia Bank has unveiled details of a plan to unify its current fragmented data warehousing system onto a single platform as it fights to remain competitive with new online banking rivals.
Fujitsu is hoping to grab an increasing share of business from rival IBM as it pursues plans to reduce its reliance on the stagnant Japanese IT market.
While Australian businesses are showing increasing interest in service and process management approaches such as ITIL and CMM, that enthusiasm drops off dramatically once outsourcing comes into play, according to new data from research firm Forrester.
While IT executives can see the benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, minimal budgets and a lack of mature technology are holding back adoption, according to the research house.
Vendor surveys coincidentally always seem to bring up results that say "you need to buy our product".
Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.
The ever-decreasing cost of storage might look like a useful development for the cash-strapped IT manager, but in fact the falling bucks per gigabyte figure can carry a hidden sting in the tail.
When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.
Google's plans for greener datacentres are being promoted with great fervour, but its calls for greater environmental accountability have some definite limitations.
Do Australian companies really need a business continuity plan? ZDNet Australia finds out what all the talk is about in disaster recovery and continuity planning.
Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.
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