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Welfare agency Centrelink has flagged plans to overhaul the way it procures a raft of ICT services, consolidating two separate panel contracts into one overarching deal with between 10 and 15 vendors.
Macquarie University's cheap new wireless network continues to evolve and grow since it went live in mid-2005, with some of the original components being replaced by higher-quality and more expensive hardware from additional vendors.
Queensland's ICT industry is up in arms about a state government proposal to handle the recruitment of all IT contractors through one master vendor to drive down contracting costs.
Business Process Management (BPM) vendors are creating unnecessary "bells-and-whistles" technology without reference to their users' wishes, according to new research by analyst house Butler.
Even Gartner themselves realise their presentations can sometimes be seen as 'same-old, same-old'.
Vendor surveys coincidentally always seem to bring up results that say "you need to buy our product".
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A recent study shows that despite a perceived lack of vendor ethics, many companies remain vendor-loyal. perhaps we have become too complacent with our vendor choices.
Do software customers actually care about the impact of provider's mergers and acquisitions, or are they just too far from the crux of business.
As multi-vendor storage environments proliferate, companies must find a way to manage disparate storage products--and the emerging Bluefin standard may just be the solution.
IT vendors such as Microsoft and Intel have grand plans for 64-bit computing and the improved processing potential it promises but convincing customers may not be so straightforward.
Looking to roll out new business desktops? We pit four of the biggest vendors against each other on desktops valued at $1500.
Microsoft now builds security into products such as Vista but attackers have shifted their focus to applications so software vendors are the weakest link, says the VP of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group.
IT vendors are still too interested in building flashy products instead of ensuring their software is bug free, which is an unsustainable situation, according to James Turner, industry analyst at IBRS.
Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.
CA's Melbourne office includes one of the largest antivirus research labs in the southern hemisphere. Part of that is a little room that contains numerous filing cabinets stuffed full of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch disks, each of which contains a "live virus".
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.
In this case study, we look at how a software choice went awry, leading to an expensive headache instead of a much-wanted solution.
We compare Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems and pick a winner.
Lexmark's S605 carries a premium price, but the clever touchscreen features do justify it.
The Extensa is a business laptop with no particular frills. That's not a bad thing per se, but it's tough to get too excited about it, either.
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