IT services company Brennan IT has bought fellow services provider S Central in an effort to increase its scale.
Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads towards its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its likely successor.
Global software giant Citrix has stolen Nortel's Australia-based enterprise chief Mark Fioretto, continuing a run of senior executive losses for the troubled Canadian network hardware specialist.
Tasmania has continued its e-health blitz, putting out two tenders to support its multimillion dollar e-health plan.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is gearing up for a nine-month IT help desk transformation project to improve desktop support for its VIPs, diplomats and senior government officials.
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Steve Jobs' backflip on a key aspect of the iPhone stood out from a normal day -- broadband furore, antagonistic marketing, personal attacks and government inaction -- in the world of Australia's telecoms market.
Business continuity and disaster planning might seem hypothetical at times, but the finance sector is taking the threat of Avian (bird) flu, which has claimed many lives in Asia, very seriously.
The end of the financial year must be nigh -- vendors are rolling out their last minute specials to try and get everyone to spend their last shreds of budget before 30 June rolls around.
My recent rant about the horrors of Adobe Acrobat's update process attracted a fair degree of sympathy, but also managed to royally annoy at least one Big Deal reader, who questioned what it had to do with the column's stated intention of illuminating issues central to IT managers.
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Virtualisation is a great way to thin down your datacentres (assuming you can keep VM creep under control). But what's out there? In the first part of this virtualisation feature, ZDNet investigates ...
The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.
Australian research shows that the tightening of IT budgets from the economic downturn, and mounting evidence that virtual desktops are more expensive than well-managed full desktops, will dampen enthusiasm for this technology in 2009.
Could your business be paying for a proprietary program when an open source alternative exists? Take a look at our guide as we count down the most popular open source products.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Designed for use with server-based desktops such as Terminal Services, Citrix and VMware View, HP's t5730w is an excellent mid-range device suitable for most office applications.
What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.
Despite taking a completely different approach to virtualisation, Virtuozzo Containers can match the best hypervisors on performance while at the same time making virtual workloads quick and easy to deploy and manage.
Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and in some cases exceed, what's available on rival platforms.
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