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Peer support helps Telstra’s supply chain move 20 March, 2009 10:33
Before migrating its procurement process to a hosted IBM service, a deal which has so far saved it hundreds of millions of dollars, Telstra not only did an evaluative check on the best technology for the job, it also had talks with its peers to ensure it would make the right decision. - +
SaaS An Easy Sell For This CIO 09 March, 2009 15:02
The tasks in Laef Olson’s working hours can be rather varied. Olson, who is the CIO at Software-as-a-Service vendor RightNow Technologies is on the one hand responsible for IT security and the organisation’s information systems, while on the other he spruiks the strategy and vision for the company's on-demand hosting platform. On many occasions Olson gets a direct audience with company CIOs. What makes it easier for Olson to get traction to the upper levels of management is his past. He has been group vice president of global technology operations of Travelport and Orbitz Worldwide. And before that CTO of cars.com. In these roles he was also a consumer of SaaS products. It is that experience that he uses to relate to customers when on the road. Olson briefly stopped over in Australia last month where CIO Magazine asked him about the maturity of SaaS. - +
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Bourne shell, or sh 05 March, 2009 08:45
On this occasion we speak to Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell, or sh. In the early 1970s Bourne was at the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge, England working on a compiler for Algol68 as part of his PhD work in dynamical astronomy. This work paved the way for him to travel to IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in New York in 1973, in part to undertake research into compilers. Through this work, and a series of connections and circumstance, Bourne got to know people at Bell Labs who then offered him a job in the Unix group in 1975. It was during this time Bourne developed sh. - +
Avanade MD makes his case for cloud computing 02 March, 2009 13:08
With Microsoft increasingly talking up cloud computing it is not unexpected that Avanade, the consultancy dedicated to using the Microsoft platform, and which was co-founded by Microsoft, is starting to talk up the benefits of running services in the cloud. To get a little more of a local insight where he thinks the market is positioned and what Avanade can offer organisations, we spoke to Craig Dower, managing director, Avanade Australia. - +
Adelaide Uni migrates 16,000 students to Gmail 23 February, 2009 14:32
The University of Adelaide will be moving over 16000 student email accounts to Google Mail. - +
Hiring levels show local security industry resilient to recession 20 February, 2009 11:40
If employee headcount is any indicator, security is one industry which the recession is having no impact on. In fact, according to several vendors in Australia, the need for organisations to stay secure, regardless of the economic climate, is leading to an increase in staff numbers. - +
An in-depth look at Jetstar’s heart-stopping IT overhaul 12 February, 2009 10:55
Its CEO told his staff that it was akin to giving someone a heart and lung transplant while they are in the middle of a marathon -- without stopping. And that pretty much was what it was like for Jetstar last weekend as the low cost airline embarked on its largest IT overhaul since it took flight in 2004. - +
Debian’s 'lenny' release expected this Saturday 10 February, 2009 14:07
The Debian Project is expected to release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, codenamed ‘lenny’, this Saturday. - +
iiNet prepares its defence in copyright infringement case 05 February, 2009 14:00
iiNet will lodge its defence in the Federal Court today to claims it has infringed the copyrighted material of leading film studios and the Seven Network. - +
Power failure cuts off Optus customers 03 February, 2009 14:16
Some Optus corporate customers in the Sydney CBD experienced an interruption to their telephony and DSL services on Monday afternoon following a power failure in one of the telco’s data centres. - +
ninemsn makes 15 staff redundant 03 February, 2009 10:29
ninemsn is the latest technology venture to feel the effects of the financial recession with the organisation announcing job cuts today.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #100: Enterprise Cloud Computing and Network Virtualisation 25 March, 2009 13:46
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