The Australian National Audit Office has given Centrelink's IT high marks in its attempts to implement business continuity management, with only limited recommendations on possible improvements.
Telstra was in the Federal Court last week to fight having to pay an employee's two fees for making an emergency call on a public holiday.
The nation's peak law enforcement technology agency CrimTrac has flagged plans for a major overhaul of its back-end ICT infrastructure that will deliver it a strong business continuity capability.
Western Australia's Auditor General Colin Murphy late last week delivered a scathing report into the security of state government IT systems, billing it as a "wake-up call" to departments and agencies.
SMS Management and Techhnology has lost its NSW managing director Linda Chapman for health reasons.
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Enterprise technology development and improvement rarely takes place as quickly as most IT managers would like, but blaming that lack of speed on the inherent complexity of the problems involved can sometimes be a lazy knee-jerk reaction.
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Business continuity and disaster planning might seem hypothetical at times, but the finance sector is taking the threat of Avian (bird) flu, which has claimed many lives in Asia, very seriously.
Victoria Police needs to appoint a pinch-hitter chief information officer with a mandate to implement a long-term solid ICT strategy and scrub the bilge from its decks.
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In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.
Virtualised desktop environments, in some cases using Linux, are gaining in popularity as IT administrators realise they can deliver security advantages. We tell the story of one Australian government department and take you through the landscape.
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