News (18)

  • Defence raids ATO for new CIO

    The Department of Defence has announced its new CIO, Greg Farr, hired from the ranks of the Australian Taxation Office.

  • CIOs pass their verdict on the 3G iPhone

    CIOs of top Australian organisations spilled the beans to ZDNet.com.au on what they think of the 3G iPhone, and whether they will let the device, launched early this morning, into their enterprise.

  • ATO kicks off round two on AU$1bn outsourcing deal

    The Australian Tax Office is today briefing would-be suppliers on what it expects from those hoping to bag the end-user computing component of its AU$1 billion infrastructure outsourcing deals.

  • ATO fires starter's gun in AU$385m outsourcing race

    In front of an audience of 170 staff from 67 IT vendors, Australian Tax Office CIO, Bill Gibson, today outlined the department's demands for its AU$385 million managed network services contract.

  • CeBIT: Complete coverage

    Many firsts were achieved at the recent IT trade show, CeBIT Australia 2007, in Sydney. Find out more plus check out our full coverage of the event.

More News >

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Time for the BlackBerry Bush ban?

    As the iconic BlackBerry goes from strength to strength in subscriber numbers, so do the threats to the device and the business model.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    "Randy" Lynch vibrates at CeBIT

    I spent enough time at CeBIT last week to know the telecommunications industry was well represented ... but not always without controversy.

Features and Case Studies (21)

  • Government CIO spotlight on: Security

    How do four of Australia's largest government agencies protect their networks from attackers? To find out, ZDNet.com.au went to Canberra and spoke to the CIOs of Customs, Centrelink, Defence and the Australian Tax Office.

  • Customs: Murray Harrison, CIO

    Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.

  • Centrelink: John Wadeson, CIO

    Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.

  • BAE Systems: Robert Fecteau, CIO

    The CIO of Government defence contractor BAE Systems talks about moving the company to an insourcing solution.

  • Australian Tax Office: Bill Gibson, CIO

    Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax office, spoke to ZDNet.com.au about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together.

More Features and Case Studies >

Videos (1)

  • Play now

    Mozilla goes mobile

    At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser. She also discusses how the new, open platform will encourage Web 2.0 application development.

Reviews (1)

  • Can GPS work for your business?

    The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?

Create an e-mail alert for "cio"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
cio


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 1 at
  2. Popularity: 5 ato
  3. Popularity: 1 ays
  4. Popularity: 3 bank
  5. Popularity: 1 barclays
  6. Popularity: 1 berners lee
  7. Popularity: 3 bill gibson
  8. Popularity: 3 business
  9. Popularity: 1 call
  10. Popularity: 2 cebit
  11. Popularity: 2 centrelink
  12. Popularity: 2 cto
  13. Popularity: 3 customs
  14. Popularity: 1 cyberlynx
  15. Popularity: 3 defence
  16. Popularity: 2 department
  17. Popularity: 3 eds
  18. Popularity: 1 financial
  19. Popularity: 1 helpdesk
  20. Popularity: 2 hr
  21. Popularity: 2 ibm
  22. Popularity: 2 industry
  23. Popularity: 2 infrastructure
  24. Popularity: 4 it
  25. Popularity: 2 job
  26. Popularity: 1 leader
  27. Popularity: 1 leadership
  28. Popularity: 1 lloyd
  29. Popularity: 2 murray harrison
  30. Popularity: 2 open source
  31. Popularity: 2 optus
  32. Popularity: 2 outsource
  33. Popularity: 6 outsourcing
  34. Popularity: 1 pc
  35. Popularity: 2 salesforce.com
  36. Popularity: 2 sap
  37. Popularity: 2 security
  38. Popularity: 1 sensis
  39. Popularity: 2 service
  40. Popularity: 2 source
  41. Popularity: 2 straight
  42. Popularity: 6 t&b
  43. Popularity: 2 tax
  44. Popularity: 3 technology
  45. Popularity: 4 telstra
  46. Popularity: 2 video
  47. Popularity: 8 vision series
  48. Popularity: 2 wireless
  49. Popularity: 1 your
  50. Popularity: 2 2003

ZDNet's CIO Vision Series

Video | Optus CIO Lawrie Turner

In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • Array D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
  • Array Opening the floodgates on missing drives
    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured