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News (14)

• New media CIO needed at Destra

  Australian digital media company Destra will soon hire a new chief information officer to manage its speedily changing technology operations.

• Virgin Blue flags Oracle outsourcing

  The nation's number two airline Virgin Blue has revealed it will shortly outsource the management of its key Oracle E-Business applications following a major upgrade of the systems.

• Sydney Water signs business intelligence vendor

  Sydney Water has signed an extensive deal with vendor Business Objects to assist in the utility's business intelligence program, with a larger contract on leased IT assets still being decided on.

• Telstra promotes McInerney to CIO

  Telstra today promoted one of its key internal IT executives to the position of chief information officer, almost two years after its last CIO Fiona Balfour left in February 2007.

• St George CIO flags June retirement

  St George Bank chief information officer John Loebenstein will retire at the end of June this year, with the bank restructuring its technology division in his wake.

Features and Case Studies (7)

• Energizer CIO hates in-house servers

  Energizer chief information officer Randy Benz would be happy if he never had to run another server inside his company ever again; most of his company's services are already run by Microsoft as part of the software giant's emerging online model.

• Harvard Medical School: John Halamka, CIO

  Dr John Halamka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School, is an early adopter of RFID technology -- he's got a chip implanted in his arm. These tags can keep track of personal medical records, as well as hospital equipment. Halamka talks with ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber about recent advances in patient care, and electronic prescriptions.

• McKesson Corp: Randy Spratt, CIO

  McKesson is America's oldest and largest health care services company. In this CIO Vision Series interview, Randy Spratt explains IT's critical role across the organisation.

• Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

  What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.

• Will a US recession demolish global IT budgets in 2008?

  The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous.

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