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.
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The National Australia Bank has replaced chief information officer Ian Crouch with the current executive general manager of financial services Australia, Ian MacDonald as part of a management restructure designed to rebuild the reputation of the financial heavyweight.
The National Australia Bank's group chief information officer (CIO) Ian MacDonald has flagged his intention to retire next year as restructuring at the institution sees his responsibilities distributed among regional CIOs.
The federal government has advertised for a whole-of-government chief information officer (CIO), kick-starting a process delayed by the election, Ministerial shifts and agency restructuring.
The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.
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.
Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
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.
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
Qantas chief information officer Fiona Balfour is no sit-on-her-hands time-server.
As corporate interest in security grows the term CSO--chief security officer--gains more prominence. But are Australian enterprises really interested in this job title?
The secret to edging out the competition is dicovering where your organisation's knowledge lies, and managing it effectively. ZDNet Australia investigates.
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.
BMC Software chief executive Bob Beauchamp on the revenge of the CFO and unravelling business' "ugliest ball of yarn."
JP Rangaswami, managing director at BT Design, talks about transformation and convergence at one of the worlds' largest telecommunication companies, and, his belief in Web 2.0 and the power of social networking. Rangaswami speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber, sharing his visionary thoughts about the tech industry. And why he calls himself the managing director instead of chief information officer.
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.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is unique as the XO laptop it distributes. While the XO is not commercially available, our review provides an insight into what can be achieved in a laptop designed for children at a very low cost.
Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.
To create cross-platform documents for the Web, Nitro PDF is a back-to-basics alternative to Adobe Acrobat.
Microsoft released on Tuesday fixes that cover at least 20 Windows flaws, several of which could make versions of the operating system vulnerable to new worms or viruses.
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