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?
A revolutionary software has been launched in Australia today, designed to track down lost or stolen PCs.
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".
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.
Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.
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.
ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).
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.
As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Here we expose just how wrong it can go and ask leading industry figures to light the way towards effective network management.
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.
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.
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.
ZDNet Australia looks at software deployment packages designed to help you reduce network administration costs.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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