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    Team members may have personal problems, annoying habits or struggle with tasks. How should IT managers approach these issues?

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  • Management: IT departments in crisis?

    Difficult team members, excessive workloads and project overload--Australia's IT professionals are grappling with how to cope with doing more tasks, in less time with shrinking resources.

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    If you find yourself without a leader, take a cue from Private John Winger, from the classic 1981 movie Stripes: Learn to rely on yourself and your team to get the job done.

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    There's a standard checklist of items you'll need to include for a datacentre: raised flooring, easy access to redundant power supplies, an air conditioner the size of a small hotel room, but the chances are you don't have a kitchen on there.

  • Australian security: the lucky country

    Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?

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    Spellr.us needs a new dictionary

    One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes.

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    Storage infrastructure on the tender track

    For a large-scale storage project, it's not uncommon to go out to tender for the best deal but when was the last time you had to put together a tender for a document management room?

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  • Be more than a manager: coach your staff

    With today's emphasis on aligning IT with business goals, CIOs must be able to lead and inspire their staff toward that achievement. Learn how to develop your leadership skills as well as those of your IT managers.

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    Team members may have personal problems, annoying habits or struggle with tasks. How should IT managers approach these issues?

  • Earn the respect of older staff by managing effectively

    Young IT managers can easily derail their careers if they don't prevent the resentment and jealousy of older subordinates from impacting team performance. Here are tips on how best to approach this management issue.

  • Leverage staff talent with assessment tests

    Commonly used as one tool in a hiring manager's arsenal, employee assessment tests can also yield important insight into the talent and work styles of your existing employees.

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    Respect for staff and being a mentor to team members were skills respondents to a recent survey thought were key to being a good IT manager.

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  • HP 2533t Mobile Thin Client

    The desktop is dead, long live the thin client desktop. Following the trend of migrating applications into the datacentre, thin clients have become increasingly popular. We found HP's first mobile thin client to be a reliable system at a reasonable price.

  • WhatsUp Gold v12 Premium Edition

    WhatsUp Gold v12 will satisfy existing and new users alike. And it's not just for large enterprises: small and medium-sized businesses can also monitor all their web servers, email servers, SQL servers, file servers and even critical desktops without breaking the bank.

  • Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8

    Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 provides flexibility when creating desktop and laptop backups. If you have high value data stored on your computer, then we think $106.53 is a reasonable price to ensure it's protected.

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