Defence Minister John Faulkner has committed up to $500 million to fixing the department's ongoing payroll and human resource management issues.
Former Defence intelligence officer Rachel Noble has been nominated as Australia's first National Security chief information officer a role that will provide strategic technology advice to the Prime Minister.
Kevin Rudd's department has advertised for a top-level security-focused chief information officer to oversee the technology aspects of its national security strategy.
SAS chief executive Jim Goodnight has poured cold water on speculation that the business-intelligence company might merge with its former rival, data warehousing software company Teradata.
The nation's number two airline Virgin Blue has revealed it will shortly outsource the management of its key Oracle E-Business applications following a major upgrade of the systems.
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The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.
Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
There are fewer and fewer places in the modern world where Internet access and mobile signals can't be found. The inside of an in-flight aircraft has remained one of the connectivity-free bastions -- but that's all about to change.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Lenovo's RD210 makes perfect sense if you're a small business that just needs a grunty all-purpose 1RU server.
While the lack of supported online expansion and de-dupe is a concern, if you need your tape backups to go faster, Tandberg's DPS1200 VTL may deliver what you need.
Adaptec has upped the enterprise storage ante by incorporating an SSD as a cache on its 2 and 5 series controllers, calling the technology MaxIQ.
We compare Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems and pick a winner.
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