On 20 May, a brief electricity brown-out struck a Queensland Health datacentre, starting a chain of incidents that resulted in serious outages of over 20 health applications. Read our blow by blow account of an event that constitutes every CIO's nightmare scenario.
Software AG and Interwoven have both announced new appointees to lead their operations in Australia and New Zealand.
The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) has pulled its new chief information officer from within its own ranks after the position was left vacant last October by Greg Carvouni.
Telstra announced today that its chief operations officer will leave the company on 31 January to return home to the US.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has rejected calls from the IT recruitment industry to ditch changes to the 457 visas made by the Howard government.
Acting Queensland Health CIO Ray Brown has been appointed to permanently fill the chief information officer role.
Necessity truly was the mother of invention at AGR Upstream Petroleum, a natural resource exploration firm that last year found itself needing a way to co-ordinate a AU$100 million ship refit involving nearly 40 subcontractors in three countries.
Technical skills aren't the only criteria IT managers look at when hiring staff. How do you make sure a new employee has the right skillset to complement the team?
It's that ongoing dilemma: is certification the answer, or is industry experience what Australian IT departments really need?
The misdirection of security budgets due to a lack of understanding of the problems facing organisations must be addressed by ICT practitioners in Australia, and elsewhere.
iBurst is a superb wireless broadband solution that's highly useful for the mobile business user, but users who don't require portability will likely find its price to be a deal breaker.
RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.
The Dell Dimension 8400 offers exciting new hardware, but unless you're a staunch early adopter, you won't see a compelling reason to make an immediate upgrade.
In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
What do you get when you put every high-performance component you can find into a sleek, charcoal case and top it off with an 18-inch digital monitor? Dell's Dimension 8250.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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Telstra shareholders fear break up
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