The Department of Defence is seeking proposals from vendors to provide extensive systems upgrades, services and support for its military integrated logistics information system, an IT project it has described as one of the largest currently underway in Australia.
To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.
Security is in a "trough of complacency" in the boardroom but getting it back on the agenda depends on security officers taking a different approach -- evaluating the benefit of protecting against tomorrow's threats, not yesterday's, according to one analyst.
When it comes to customer relationship management software, much of what businesses purchase is never put to use, according to a new study.
As employee-owned portable devices become more sophisticated they become less secure, according to one analyst -- and the more senior an employee, the less compliant they are when it comes to protecting the information on those devices.
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?
We need statistics and commentary from analysts to reinforce the bleeding obvious because we seem quite capable of utterly ignoring it otherwise.
Never have I seen a stranger vendor "testimonial" given than that by the NSW Department of Primary Industry's Warwick Lill of Sun Microsystems at Gartner's datacentre summit last week.
Let's not go back to the bad old days where telco and vendor incumbents were unchallenged.
When it comes to customer relationship management software, much of what businesses purchase is never put to use, according to a new study.
Companies are increasingly adhering to ITIL standards. Just how can ITIL offer real benefits to your business and provide you with better IT service?
As one CIO explains, technology expertise and managing are only part of a tech leader's role. The ultimate, ongoing goal is melding technology to the enterprise business goals.
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.
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.
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 frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
Microsoft will next week take on its key competitors with a new initiative for building self-managing computing systems.
They may not be perfect, but intrusion detection systems should be a part of your enterprise security arsenal.
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