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.
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.
Apple's iPhone 3G smartphone is fit for business use, according to analyst house Gartner.
The Queensland government has announced plans to embark on a new green procurement strategy, after a procedural review led to the establishment of a green whole-of-government computing arrangement.
Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.
There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.
Like most people with a pulse in their wrist and a love of tech in their hearts, I saw the Macworld keynote the other day. I know it's not going to win me any friends but does anyone else think Steve Jobs mightn't be so good on numbers?
We sat down with security analyst Andrew Walls at Gartner ITExpo and asked him how Web 2.0 affects application security. He talked to us about how traditional desktop security measures are falling short in a Web 2.0 world and how developers need to take more personal responsibility for the security of their code.
When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?
One in 10 IT departments will disappear over the next five years as outsourcing and the commoditisation of technology continues to increase, according to Gartner.
The practice of outsourcing will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next ten years, according to Gartner analyst Rolf Jester, who adds that offshore outsourcing will just be one of many adjustments.
IT research and analysis provider Gartner Incorporated questioned the negative coverage about offshoring in a report presented during its sourcing and IT services summit.
The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?
Palm OS certainly took a blow this week when Sony decided to dump its Clie handhelds, but is Sony planning to release handhelds under a different banner?
For makers of a widely used type of PC memory, 2004 is shaping up as a two-pronged winner: Prices for the current technology are surging, and a new, high-profit replacement is about to hit store shelves.
A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard drive.
Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.
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