Australian Customs' CIO, Murray Harrison, says service level agreements (SLAs) don't work in outsourcing arrangements and when vendors use the term "innovation", their suggestions generally works against the interests of the customer.
Web 2.0 is critical to the Anglican church if it is to keep up with today's youth, according to the Sydney diocese's CIO.
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Recruitment specialist Hudson today confirmed that its CIO Atul Thapar, who was only appointed last year, had decided to leave the company to pursue other opportunities.
Queensland power generator Stanwell Corporation has put itself in the market for a chief information officer after letting the position lapse.
This week the Australian online banking system was tested by an agent of KAOS Kevin Rudd and his $10 billion dollar fiscal package that, as Agent 86 would say, "missed it by that much" on knocking out the banking system.
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Ever been frustrated by calls from a vendor sales rep spruiking a technology that's obviously not relevant to your operations? Bartercard chief information officer Jason Van is.
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Considering how expensive and drawn-out tender processes can be to solve problems that might be very immediate, it's little wonder that the Victorian Police IT department tried to work the tender exemptions system.
Since today's corporate organisational charts don't include positions for full-time censors, here's a list of what not to say to corporate leadership and why.
The average traveller may think of air travel in terms of security checks and airport lounges, but Melbourne Airport IT manager Mark Funston has a completely different perspective.
Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.
It's been just over 12 months since Peter Nikoletatos moved west to take over the role of CIO at Perth's Curtin University of Technology. Since then, he's been working to manage the inevitable complexities of university IT while making sure he has enough time to keep his head in the clouds.
What does it take to be a great chief information officer? We talk to Australian CIOs, analysts and human resource managers to find out. The results might surprise you.
Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, says that using a server for multiple tasks on different operating systems not only reduces datacentre clutter, it makes deploying new applications easier -- and also has "green benefits".
ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007 Cesare Tizi says Windows Vista is big, requires lots of CPU horsepower and it will be a long time before companies will be able to justify moving to Microsoft's new operating system.
Malware for Apple iPhones are yet to be discovered, but F-Secure's senior security specialist, Patrik Runald reckons they are almost certain to appear in the near future.
In the coming years, the conference table will be a computer, the whiteboard will be a computer, says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
Gideon Sasson, the CIO of financial services giant Charles Schwab, talks to ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber about mistakes the company made during the dot com bust, and says innovation used to start with technology, but now IT is more closely aligned with the business. Below are excerpts from the video interview.
Intel CIO Stacy Smith sits down with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber in a Face to Face interview to share his challenge of saving money while increasing performance. Wireless technology, he says, will be outfitted for nontraditional spaces such as construction sites and hospitals.
Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.
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IBM has embraced wireless LAN technology at the Australian launch of its new PC range.
Why do it vendors insist on creating catchy phrases to sum up their products? Is it to further confuse us, or are they really trying to help?
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