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    Jetstar's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality has meant that the airline has accepted the risk that it might not be up all the time in exchange for cheaper services, CIO Stephen Tame said today.

  • NSW Health CIO seconded to shared services

    NSW Health chief information officer Mike Rillstone has been appointed the chief executive of the department's shared services area, Health Support Services, while a formal recruitment process is undertaken to fill the position.

  • Major vendors in virtualisation moves

    Microsoft, Citrix, Novell and Sun Microsystems all made announcements around virtualisation overnight.

  • NASA hacker in final bid to fight US extradition

    Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into NASA systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday.

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    Sun is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open-source database developer MySQL for US$1bn.

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    Keeping up with changing technologies means CIOs have to go through a mountain of information, and then decide which of it if any is useful to their company. ZDNet.com.au delves into how they do it.

  • IBM: Virtualisation is the real deal

    IBM's head of virtualisation is on a mission to spread the word about a technology that is reshaping the structure of IT around the world.

  • Microsoft's role in ID theft

    Peter Cullen, the company's chief privacy strategist, explains how Sender ID can take a bite out of spam and phishing.

  • Top time wasters at work

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  • Quantum disk backup in store

    Storage maker Quantum has unveiled two disk-based backup appliances designed as tape replacements for Australian mid-sized office and datacentre use.

  • Dell wants its batteries back

    Some of Dell's customers have not been heeding its advice to return laptop batteries that could potentially explode.

  • Dell announces first quad-core servers

    Dell has launched its much-anticipated range of servers and desktops based on Intel's quad-core Xeon processor.

  • Virtual stores

    Can virtualisation help you simplify your storage management? And when will it be ready?

  • Is Linux taking over the enterprise?

    These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.

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