In this year's budget the NSW Department of Corrective Services was given the green light to do some serious tinkering under the hood of its IT infrastructure.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released draft guidelines for IT security last Friday, which laid out practices to improve areas of "potential weakness" in the financial services industry.
The uptake of cloud computing was rendering many traditional systems administrator functions obsolete, tech author and Google sysadmin Tom Limoncelli told attendees at Linux.conf.au (LCA) in Hobart this week.
IBM has agreed to buy French software company Ilog for 215m (AU$353.5m), IBM said on Monday in Europe.
In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft: Vista usage among US businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January. The bad news: still, less than 10 per cent of the 50,000 companies surveyed use Vista.
Next time you begin to berate yourself for making that awfully stupid coding mistake remember that it happens to the best and biggest of us and happy sysadmin day.
It's not everyday you look forward to a funeral, but I can't wait for the death of the business desktop PC.
Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.
When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?
A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
From Blaster Worm to Blue Hat, we bring you a complete retrospective on the evolution of Microsoft's security strategy over the last decade. Step onboard as we chart the triumphs and tragedies as the Microsoft engineers battled the tides of internet hackers, transforming them from adversaries to unlikely allies.
Traditional security models are dependent on "border patrol" via firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention system and other perimeter protection methods. In new, borderless networks, the focus shifts to protection of the data itself. Here are 10 technologies you should be looking at to help secure your borderless network.
Any manufacturer knows that a product recall can be an absolute nightmare of paperwork and logistics. At NSW agricultural cooperative Batlow Apples, however, an increasingly capable implementation of Microsoft's Navision ERP has provided the confidence that such a recall could be managed relatively easily.
Virtual servers have changed the way businesses are run. Now, virtualisation vendors have set their sights on your PC.
The new year represents an opportunity for IT managers to evaluate their accomplishments and sift through their less successful projects and relationships in an effort to get things moving in the right direction. IT consultant Shannon Kalvar offers some advice that will help you keep things on track in 2007.
The HP ProLiant DL585 G5 is a powerful server with a strong emphasis on reliability and serviceability that reduces overall device cost.
We examine tools that can drill down through your applications to pinpoint exactly where loading causes trouble.
In this special review, we round up the various authentication devices on the market. From fingerprint scanners, to single sign-on software and biometric technology -- we have the authentication market covered.
Collaboration, records management, and workflow are just some of the features in current electronic document management software. We examine your options.
Developers of alternative office software need to place more emphasis on ease of conversion if they ever wish to de-throne Microsoft.
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