Stories about: Zurich Financial Services

Ipswitch's File Transfer division, in the UK, better known as the developer of the popular FTP (file transfer protocol) software WS_FTP, has acquired Standard Networks in order to expand its reach in the enterprise space.

Former St George Bank operations and integration guru Mike Daly has made it over the line to secure the post of Australian CIO at Zurich Financial Services and will replace outgoing CIO Glen Hickey, who, the companysays, is returning to Melbourne.

Australian organisations are increasingly investing in IP services and infrastructure, an IDC study has found; though the price point for deployment still remains high.

Zurich Financial Services, one of the world's largest insurers, has signed a US$1.3 billion, 7-year outsourcing agreement with CSC to hand off new application development and the management of more than 4,000 existing applications.

As part of a 7-month-old drive to streamline and enhance its IT operations, insurance firm Zurich Financial Services has decided to outsource its front-end IT infrastructure to IBM Corp., the companies announced Wednesday.

Unix continues to power the world's high-end business machines, and to power it well. But with many shops keen to standardise on Windows and others captivated by the Linux juggernaut, could Unix end up tossed on IT's legacy scrap heap? Patrick Thibodeau examines the future of Unix to address how - or whether - IT managers should factor the venerable OS into their long-term infrastructure strategies. The chief technology officers from HP, Sun, and SuSE Linux have their say in this story.

Zurich Financial Services Australia has appointed Glen Hickey as its new CIO to steer the organisation's IT strategy and also help manage future growth of the company's three core businesses: general insurance, life risk and investment products.

Vendors have upped their use of software audits in recent months in a desperate bid to generate additional revenue from existing users.

Zurich Financial Services' IT project manager Phillip Coleman shares his IT experiences with Computerworld's Lauren Thomsen-Moore.

Legions of dot-coms have collapsed, companies across the U.S. are laying off workers, and the economy remains in a sinkhole. It's against that backdrop that some sanity appears to be returning to IT project management. Gone are the days of bottomless-pit project funding and caffeine-pumped software developers sequestered off-site and working around the clock to be first to market with a glitzy Web site.

IT staff can give up hope of winning the affection of other workers in their business until users can really understand the complexities of what goes on in an IT department, according to IT professionals who spoke with Computerworld.