China set to take over India in outsourcing market
23 September, 2010
China’s outsourcing market may well soon be as strong as current leader India’s and could eventually overtake it, according to Ovum, but neither country can rest on its laurels.
Broadband subscribers pass 500 million mark
22 September, 2010
Broadband has taken a significant step forward as the number of subscriber lines passed the 500 million mark in July 2010.
Businesses lack digital strategy
21 September, 2010
Businesses are not thinking strategically in the digital world. Despite Australian businesses continuing to take up new applications like social media marketing, very few have developed a digital business strategy to make the most of opportunities, according to findings from the Sensis e-business Report.
Organisations use business analytics to solve problems
14 September, 2010 by Gordon Clubb*
Business analytics empowers organisations to solve complex business problems, manage performance to achieve measurable business objectives, drive sustainable growth through innovation and anticipate and manage change. It allows organisations to make a difference, providing the insight and understanding to support fact-based decisions and confident actions - and providing the feedback that is needed to create a learning organisation.
Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society attracts new partner
09 September, 2010
Clarity, an Australian software company dedicated to simplifying the operation and management of telecommunications networks, has joined the Industry Partner Program at the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES).
Securing a unified infrastructure
08 September, 2010 by Andrew Collins
In July’s feature we looked at the recent trend of vendors offering pre-integrated packages of infrastructure, combining servers, storage, networking in the one physical box. This month, Andrew Collins wonders how these integrated boxes fit into a security strategy.
Aussie universities join IBM's clean water research program
08 September, 2010
University of Sydney and Monash University will work with China’s Tsinghua University and global academics to improve water quality.
Data centre managers will continue to spend on technology
07 September, 2010
Sixty per cent of data centre managers plan to increase technology spending.
Report finds IT could do better when it comes to green IT
07 September, 2010
Fujitsu's research report Green IT: Global Benchmark contains findings of the first multicountry survey to determine the maturity of green IT practices and technologies in large IT-using organisations in Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India.
prReports finds IT could do better when it comes to Green IT
07 September, 2010
Fujitsu's research report Green IT: Global Benchmark, contains findings of the first multi-country survey to determine the maturity of Green IT practices and technologies in large IT-using organisations in Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India.
IT service managers cite relationships with IT vendors as important
07 September, 2010Relationships matter when dealing with IT vendors.
Extreme Networks XNV data centre virtualisation life cycle management
02 September, 2010
The XNV network-based dynamic data centre virtualisation life cycle management solution provides visibility, control and automation of virtual machines (VM) to the network administrator.
GFC results in stagnant ITC salaries
02 September, 2010
The ACS 2010 Remuneration Survey finds a 3.3% salary increase overall while 45% of private sector employees received no salary increase.
Automated deployment of master PCs saves time
01 September, 2010
Located in the Geelong region of Victoria, Christian College is a K-12 school focused on quality education. It has a current enrolment of around 1800 students and 240 administration and teaching staff across five campus locations.
PUE gains validity as a data centre energy measurement
31 August, 2010 by Christian Bertolini*
The government has recently announced plans to green its ICT, including reducing the PUE of its data centres from 2.5 to 1.9 by July 2015. Christian Bertolini, Chief Technology Officer, APC by Schneider Electric, issues a response to the government’s green ICT plans and the validity of PUE.
