IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to coax new customers to buy the company's mainframes.
IBM later this year plans to release management tools for its mainframe server, including a "federated" security application for logging onto several systems at once.
IBM has secured a two-year, AU$141 million extension on its mainframe contract with Centrelink, boosting the term of the deal to six years with a total value of AU$401 million.
A recent AU$25 million lifeline to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) last month saved its AU$496 million tech overhaul from tanking, according to DIAC CIO Bob Correll.
IBM has made its Viper engine available on mainframes, and the company predicts a bright future for Viper in driving through service-oriented architecture environments.
Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
If ever there's been a prelude to a government agency cutting ties with a red-faced service provider, Joe Hockey's veiled rant about Cybertrust was probably it.
The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins " so what makes today's scenario so different?
Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.
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.
Cisco security maven John Stewart says never mind the OS -- attackers are after the apps, from IM to Office.
Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.
This week there's a lot of goodies for the systems administrator of an enterprise, perhaps looking to make life a bit easier or more secure. Check out this week's new product releases.
It's official: backup software packages have the longest product names in the business. We evaluate three leading packages to find out which suits the medium-sized business.
With chip makers chomping at the bit to update systems to create a 64-bit world, CIOs need to ask the tough question, "why?" This article provides compelling arguments for the switch.
ZDNet Australia looks at software deployment packages designed to help you reduce network administration costs.
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