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  • Kazacos 'rationalises' PKBA workforce

    SME-focused IT services firm P K Business Advantage (PKBA) today admitted reducing its overall headcount, but said the cuts were due to consolidation efforts stemming from acquisitions.

  • RTA CIO makes leave permanent

    The NSW Road and Traffic Authority's chief information officer Greg Carvouni has made the leap to the private sector via Fujitsu, one of the RTA's key IT suppliers.

  • ActewAGL CIO to focus on TransACT

    ACT energy utility ActewAGL has begun the search for a new chief information officer after incumbent Carsten Larsen left last Friday.

  • Cisco security partners become competitors

    Cisco's recent acquisition of e-mail security firm IronPort has pushed the networking giant into direct competition with MessageLabs as well as traditional antivirus vendors such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro.

  • SMBs wake up to managed security services

    More small- and medium-sized businesses are taking advantage of managed services providers such as Messagelabs, in order to avoid client-based antispam and antivirus applications, which can hamper employees' ability to concentrate on their core job function.

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  • Changing of the guard: Westpac

    Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

  • Managed services: Kinder, gentler outsourcing

    It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.

  • Seek outsources Web hosting

    Web-based jobs directory Seek will outsource its online infrastructure to managed service provider Hostworks in a three-year deal announced today.

  • Securing all fronts

    Managed security service providers are gaining momentum in Australia. Can outsourcing security secure your company?

  • Breaking the myths of managed services

    Managed services, one of the telecom industry's most popular terms, gains credibility because it's well known -- but no one wants to admit they don't understand it.

Reviews (4)

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • Surrendering security

    Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.

  • Autonomic transmission

    In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?

  • Worm out of virus management

    Antivirus management is complex, time consuming, and absolutely essential. Handing it over to a service provider could prove to be the easiest,"and safest,"option.

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