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  • IT services: Ticking time bomb?

    Are time bombs threatening your infrastructure? Not the familiar threats of viruses waiting for a specific date to trigger their attacks, but hidden dangers posed by expiration dates on domain name registration, service contracts, and support agreements?

  • Lost PCs phone home

    A revolutionary software has been launched in Australia today, designed to track down lost or stolen PCs.

  • CA chiefs talk up on-demand

    Continuing its march into the on-demand computing world, Computer Associates announced several updated products and revealed details about Sonar, a new asset management technology that company officials have branded "revolutionary".

  • CA's Sanjay Kumar: We'll manage on-demand

    Computer Associates Chairman and CEO Sanjay Kumar has the prevailing winds at his back. He is betting that the latest trend--on-demand delivery of computing resources--stirred up by companies like IBM, HP and Sun--will expand the market for the company's flagship Unicenter network management products.

  • Quarter of all Aussie software is illegal

    Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.

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  • Evaluate the costs of multivendor PC hardware

    Although some level of diversity in hardware suppliers is typically unavoidable and beneficial, it does introduce costs that must be understood during the vendor selection process so organisations should strive to keep the number of active vendors low.

  • Old IT never dies...

    Companies are hanging on to their IT equipment longer to stave off spending what they can't currently afford. But IT systems have to be disposed of eventually; what happens when they do?

  • How to cover your IT assets

    A narrow product focus has isolated IT asset management from business goals and other company assets for too long. Find out how the industry is redefining the asset management value proposition.

  • 10 things to consider when leasing computers

    Leasing computer equipment makes sense in a lot of situations, but the process needs to be managed as carefully as an actual purchase. These tips will help your organisation make sound leasing decisions.

  • Commonwealth Bank: Michael Harte, CIO

    ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).

Reviews (3)

  • Optima WorkPro X860

    Intel vPro promises to ease desktop management for IT managers but does it really stack up? We review Optima's first vPro machine to find out.

  • Patch management: 4 packages tested

    Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.

  • Search and deploy

    ZDNet Australia looks at software deployment packages designed to help you reduce network administration costs.

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