Australian Customs' chief information officer, Murray Harrison, says the department has almost completed rolling out Vista to its 6,000 PCs, and has improved security for its laptop fleet using Microsoft's encryption tool, Bitlocker.
Security is in a "trough of complacency" in the boardroom but getting it back on the agenda depends on security officers taking a different approach -- evaluating the benefit of protecting against tomorrow's threats, not yesterday's, according to one analyst.
Vendors are facing an uphill battle when competing for government tenders as bureaucratic and political obstacles continue to make the process more cumbersome than necessary, analysts believe.
The new wave of government CIOs is business and relationship focussed, with IT knowledge being pushed into the background, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Observers predict that Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of global outsourcer EDS for US$13.9 billion this week will bring a boost to the Australian integrated services market, but also warn the new Australian entity that its rivals will try to take advantage of the transition here.
Cesare Tizi, who was the chief information officer at Australia's largest energy supplier AGL Energy, has been awarded the title of ZDNet Australia CIO of the year 2007.
At the rate the role of CIOs are changing, non-traditional responsibilities such as sales and marketing could soon come under their purview.
Next year's priorities should be continued cost-cutting and championing of Web services and instant messaging, according to research.
Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
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Here's a teaser from interviews ZDNet Australia conducted with its CIO of the year candidates, where nominees gave their views on subjects including VoIP, outsourcing and the environment.
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