When Philip Hind joined the Australian Taxation Office as chief knowledge officer, the task of managing the organisation's data warehouse was widely viewed as a "poison chalice". How did the ATO evolve to make its warehouse-dependent BI applications a critical enterprise tool?
A revamped data warehouse is helping Victoria Police to reduce crime rates and has delivered AU$2 million in productivity benefits, despite a lack of initial budget planning which threatened to derail the project early on.
Democrats Senator Natasha Stott Despoja will introduce to Federal Parliament this Thursday a proposed amendment to the Federal Privacy Act that introduces data disclosure laws to Australia.
Analyst group Gartner has recommended that companies using US-based service providers should prepare plans to move their data to the UK or Canada because of the risk that records could be passed, without authorisation, to US Intelligence agencies.
Consumer confidence in online commerce is dwindling.
New research suggests that IT managers aren't spending a lot of time stressing over their storage systems, but a little reflection suggests that they probably should be.
Some future trends in storage are obvious: we'll need more of it, it'll be cheaper per megabyte, and a lot of it will be virtualised.
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
It's not everyday you look forward to a funeral, but I can't wait for the death of the business desktop PC.
Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.
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.
Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
The market for storage management software grew to US$5.6 billion in new licence revenue in 2004, up from US$5 billion from the previous year, according to new data from Gartner.
Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.
How can Australian businesses configure backup software so that it reduces rather than increases workloads, and perhaps even provides some return on investment in the process?
The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.
Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month.
After adding it back as an option for small businesses, Dell offers the older OS on consumer machines in response to demand in the US.
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