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.
EMC today announced it will sell flash-based solid state drives for the first time, which are currently 30 times more expensive than conventional drives.
Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software.
With major changes to the Privacy Act set to occur next year, many organisations are exploring data leakage prevention (DLP) technologies.
ING Australia today extended and expanded a contract with KAZ that will see the Telstra subsidiary manage more of the financial services group's IT infrastructure over the next five years.
Sydney Water will soon decide on suppliers for a substantial portion of its IT spend over the next three years with the business planning to continue keeping a lot of its technology work at arm's length.
Hewlett-Packard plans to acquire Trustgenix, a company that allows users to authenticate their identity to access accounts on multiple sites.
Researchers at IBM have come up with a way to hard wire encryption technology into a microprocessor, promising a more secure way to store data.
Australian businesses are doubling the size of their data storage networks at least every 18 months, despite a global IT industry slump, says storage executive Robin Purohit.
Storage heavyweight EMC has recorded Australian growth of 34 percent year on year for the second quarter 2004, in line with its parent's results, the company's Australian and New Zealand managing director, Steve Redman, said.
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.
ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).
Data management provider CommVault Systems bagged a whopping 48 new customers in Australia and New Zealand between April and June, the company said in a statement.
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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.
Storage heavyweight EMC has recorded Australian growth of 34 percent year on year for the second quarter 2004, in line with its parent's results, the company's Australian and New Zealand managing director, Steve Redman, said.
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Though still in its early days, grid computing looks to have a promising future -- if vendors can continue to educate IT departments about its benefits.
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