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    The Group 8 cluster of federal agencies that signed a collective IT outsourcing arrangement with Commander-owned Volante in 2000 are moving on as the contract nears its end on 26 June.

  • Centrelink starts $5 million help desk project

    Centrelink is to begin a 16-month rollout of service management software that will eventually see staff help desk queries consolidated and automated under one system.

  • Down and out in Australia

    Do Australian companies really need a business continuity plan? ZDNet Australia finds out what all the talk is about in disaster recovery and continuity planning.

  • Succeeding in integration: Part one

    Wondering how to tackle that daunting integration project? Take a look at how other enterprises have dealt with the issues.

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    In carriers' high-def future, pants are the real winners

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  • Four mid-range servers compared

    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.

  • Case study: Western Power quality tool

    Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.

  • Biometrics: Still searching for a pulse

    A few years ago, the uptake of biometric technology was considered a sure thing. But fast forward to present day and ZDNet Australia can reveal that companies are reluctant to use biometrics due to their negative stigma.

  • Down and out in Australia

    Do Australian companies really need a business continuity plan? ZDNet Australia finds out what all the talk is about in disaster recovery and continuity planning.

  • Succeeding in integration: Part one

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    Thin clients seem to be a perennial runner-up to full-featured desktops, but we think the time is right to stop thinking "what if?" and to get rid of those clunky desktop PCs.

  • Four mid-range servers compared

    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.

  • Tablet PCs: Take one and call me in the morning

    Tablet PCs may be great for impressing your friends, but how useful are they in a corporate context? We look at five Tablet PCs from major vendors to find out.

  • Autonomic transmission

    In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?

  • Corporate mobility: Six wireless e-mail packages tested

    There's an abundance of wireless-capable devices and a growing number of networks to service them. How do you make your corporate e-mail available to staff when they're out of the office?

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