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  • Qantas CIO Balfour resigns

    Qantas today confirmed its high-profile chief information officer, Fiona Balfour, had resigned and would leave the airline in March next year.

  • Maestro CIO wanted for Opera House

    The Sydney Opera House is stepping up moves to appoint its first-ever chief information officer as the Australian icon upgrades management of its technology and information resources.

  • From one carrier to another

    Ever been forced to shift from boss to sidekick? Not the most pleasant feeling in the world -- and one Vish Padmanabhan must be feeling now.

  • Qantas' flight to change

    Qantas chief information officer Fiona Balfour is no sit-on-her-hands time-server.

  • Offshoring can increase costs: Vic police CIO

    The offshoring trend is largely a way of buying time and being seen to make changes, Valda Berzins, CIO of Victoria Police, told a seminar organised by VTR Consulting.

Blogs (8)

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Secrets of starting a data warehouse from scratch

    Being able to build a data warehouse right from the beginning of a company's life can eliminate some of the pitfalls typically associated with the project, but doesn't necessarily eliminate the most obvious one: uncontrolled data from multiple sources.

  • Australian security: the lucky country

    Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    StartupCamp Melbourne: The review

    StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Will you manage in the exabyte era?

    Mammoth growth in storage volumes is a fact of life, but even so it's helpful to pause occasionally and try and work out whether our information strategies have fallen hopelessly out of step with the pace of technological growth and changes in costs.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Google: G'arn, I'll swap ya privacy for security

    Would you be happier that Google collects data about your Internet history if you knew their log data was used to fight some seriously nasty worms?

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    Qantas chief information officer Fiona Balfour is no sit-on-her-hands time-server.

  • Sainsbury's: Devil no longer in retail

    case study How the UK's third-largest grocery chain transformed its business by employing proper intelligence about customer buying patterns.

  • Banking on brain power

    The secret to edging out the competition is dicovering where your organisation's knowledge lies, and managing it effectively. ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • Security expert reveals enterprise risks

    IT professionals are gambling with the security of systems, and doing it with the odds against them stacked higher than they can imagine, according to IT security expert Peter Neumann.

  • Precision security fighting at Cisco

    Cisco security maven John Stewart says never mind the OS -- attackers are after the apps, from IM to Office.

Reviews (46)

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • FAQ: Getting a handle on Windows Vista

    From features and requirements to versions and release dates, here is everything you need to know about the upcoming update to the dominant operating system.

  • Nitro PDF Desktop

    To create cross-platform documents for the Web, Nitro PDF is a back-to-basics alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

  • Tech hides data, ID inside songs

    SunnComm Technologies, one of several companies developing anti-CD copying products, has licensed a new technique that can hide data, video, software or an identifying watermark inside music files.

  • Tech Guide: Getting a handle on Longhorn

    Say what you want about Longhorn, just don't call it Windows XP Service Pack 3.

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