Microsoft has reshuffled executives in its US financial services group to improve its responsiveness to customers' needs in the banking, capital markets and insurance industries.
HCL Technologies has signed a wide-ranging deal with financial services software vendor Misys that will see the Indian outsourcer make further inroads into Australia's banking sector.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a standard for the use of biometric authentication at financial institutions but banks are unlikely to invest in the technology.
A financial services group and a Victorian water utility are among the first Australia customers of Microsoft and Nortel's unified communications alliance
HSBC faces possible investigation by the UK's financial watchdog after admitting losing a CD containing the details of 370,000 customers.
St George is joining the ranks of financial institutions taking up two-factor transaction authentication to protect its customers from fraud.
Telstra's KAZ subsidiary has appointed superannuation veteran Tony Gold to a newly created chief information officer role in its business services division.
RSA president Art Coviello says he will quit his job if 'the security industry' is not dead within three years.
A standardised test on knowledge of security programming may soon be on the way for software developers.
Alcatel-Lucent is teaming up with Red Hat on its products for smaller businesses, the companies have revealed.
Financial organisations are slowly embracing the notion of unified communications, but significant organisational hurdles remain
Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery.
Constructing a new head office was a natural step in Bendigo Bank's growth. However, the bank's IT team was forced to do some creative thinking in figuring out how to upgrade and move its 20 terabyte storage area network (SAN) to the new data centre at the bank's new headquarters.
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ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).
As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Here we expose just how wrong it can go and ask leading industry figures to light the way towards effective network management.
Banking firms in the City of London have conducted a trial of their back-up communications systems as part of an exercise to test the ability of the financial sector to cope following a major disaster such as a terrorist attack.
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.
silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?
IT chiefs at financial services organisations should encourage staff to take greater control of business decisions, says JP Rangaswami, global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.
Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.
It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?
Online businesses are scrambling to get their Web sites on every pager, PDA and mobile phone. But they're learning that today's mobile technologies go only so far.
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A guy I know runs a tiling business, which as far as I can see involves his drinking lots of coffee, making lots of phone calls, and making sure that around a dozen different tilers do the actual hard work. As long as they're busy, he's making money. If he finds enough new business to keep them all going for two weeks, he can take off for Hawaii -- and still be making money.
In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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