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  • ATO brings Boston back

    Boston Consulting Group was involved in the process that led to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) signing a $604 million extension with IT outsourcer EDS, the agency revealed yesterday.

  • EDS scores $604m ATO extension

    The Australian Taxation Office has decided to extend its contracts with EDS for end computing and centralised computing services over a further two years.

  • UK CIOs avoid Windows 7 plans

    Windows 7 may be generating its fair share of hype but UK chief information officers are planning to take a cautious approach towards rolling out the operating system.

  • AGIMO details Gershon axe work

    Yesterday at CeBIT, Australian Government Information Management Office division manager for business improvement John Sheridan outlined exactly how much the Federal Government hoped to save on its business as usual information technology spend over the next few years.

  • Vista/Server 2008 SP2 gets Hyper-V

    Microsoft has announced that its Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) phase and detailed the changes contained within the update.

Blogs (14)

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Manjrasoft's forecast: Cloudy but fine

    If Melbourne University spin-off Manjrasoft can find the venture capital funds it stands a strong chance its technology could prove a winner.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Give me my IDE port back now

    I wish motherboard manufacturers wouldn't consign parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives and the IDE ports they require to the dustbin of history just yet.

  • Is green IT a marketing fad?

    It seems that green IT has dropped off the radar, with other technology issues moving to the fore. But was green IT ever a real technology movement, or was it just a marketing fad?

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Mission-critical now a meaningless phrase

    If you think two-thirds of your IT is mission-critical, you're either running an incredibly lean and efficient operation or you haven't got a clue how many applications you have and which ones you need to manage.

Features and Case Studies (150)

  • Four mid-range servers compared

    What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.

  • What's the best hosted virtualisation suite?

    A lot of the fuss behind virtualisation is focused around the datacentre. That's all well and good, but there is a whole world of virtualisation for workstations where competition for the best suite is red-hot and constantly improving.

  • The best firewall is...

    Firewalls have come a long way since we last looked at them in 2005, and have now become full-blown Unified Threat Management devices. We take a look at the top players.

  • Office 2010 Technical Preview: Screenshots

    We give you a sneak peek at a "Technical Preview" build of Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 suite before the company formally unveils it to the public.

  • Aussie CIOs will weather the storm

    A series of inspiring conversations with Australian chief information officers over the past five years has led me to believe the profession and ICT industry as a whole has the attitude, skills and drive to push through the global financial crisis and other challenges to the better world ahead.

Videos (18)

  • Microsoft's battle with VMware

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about Microsoft's move into virtualisation and shares his thoughts on increasing the overall market and how his company differs from VMWare.

  • Department of Defence: Greg Farr, CIO (part one)

    Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.

  • A greener IBM?

    At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Peter Williams, CTO of IBM's Big Green Innovations, discusses the role of technology in the green movement. He addresses everything from new virtualisation systems to new sensor networks that will help monitor climate change.

  • Dell: Virtualisation pains are temporary

    When businesses scaled out their server infrastructure, Dell rode high, but the arrival of virtualisation is hurting its server sales. Despite this, Dell's president, Asia Pacific South, Paul-Henri Ferrand says the world will need more of its servers and storage in the future.

  • Oracle CEO banters with OpenWorld attendees

    At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison answers questions from attendees about a wide range of topics, such as virtualisation, competition in the applications market, and his early years working at Oracle.

Reviews (37)

  • Four mid-range servers compared

    What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.

  • Best budget business desktops

    Looking for an affordable business desktop to roll out? We look at the major players available in the market today.

  • Virtuozzo Containers 4.0

    Despite taking a completely different approach to virtualisation, Virtuozzo Containers can match the best hypervisors on performance while at the same time making virtual workloads quick and easy to deploy and manage.

  • Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron

    AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to exploit the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet's tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel's Xeons.

  • Citrix XenServer 5

    Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and in some cases exceed, what's available on rival platforms.

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