TransGrid chief information officer Tony Meehan appears to have vacated his position, just six months after signing an extensive ICT outsourcing agreement with software and services company Mincom.
NSW electricity wholesaler TransGrid has nabbed an IT executive from the state's Department of Community Services (DoCS) to be its new chief information officer.
Centrelink claims maintenance work on its backup power supply caused a datacentre outage last week the second such failure in as many years.
Queensland energy utility Energex has created a new chief information officer position as it aims to strengthen management of its IT resources.
NSW electricity wholesaler TransGrid will sign a multi-million dollar contract with Mincom to provide IT services for the next three years.
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Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.
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Business continuity is much more than just a fancy word for "backup" although some organisations treat it that way. A comprehensive business continuity plan provides a roadmap for continuance and/or restoration of mission-critical functions during and after a disaster. Here are 10 things a good BCP includes.
You've seen hype, and more hype, about Microsoft's .NET Framework, but may be in the dark on what the system means for CIOs. As columnist Tim Landgrave explains, the bottom line is that .NET equals lower costs.
One day HP says enterprises could achieve incredible cost savings -- and the next day it's a footnote in history.
IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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