Stories about: Central Queensland University

The next generation of storage systems will take complete control of content as well as the hardware and network infrastructure.

Developments within the IT industry mean that universities are updating their courses, expanding their offering and methods of delivery. Helen Schuller reports on national postgraduate trends and speaks to those leading the charge

With the end of the year in sight, many IT professionals take stock of their career prospects and consider the options available to bag that promotion or go for that dream job.

Being deskbound is a health hazard, particularly if you are a man.

If next-generation IP networks promise improved security and manageability, IT departments could look to the higher education sector for inspiration as Victoria's Monash University joined some eight other universities with IPv6 connections to GrangeNet this month.

Training has become such an important factor in company performance that Alex Smith, CEO of Learning solutions integrator Impart confidently predicts the days of the CLO (chief learning officer) are not too far distant.

Brownbird IT administrator Shannon Pace shares his IT experiences with Computerworld.

There's nothing like a stoush to grab an audience. I'm thrilled that Julian Bajkowski's article "SCO war of attrition descends to farce" (page 6) scored fantastic online hit rates when we put it up on our site, but left wondering if "Source Wars, Episode 7" is more world series wrestling than really serious reckoning. This round of the battle has Red Hat tag-teaming with IBM in a legal counterattack on SCO. Nursing a broken ankle (rumoured to be from a leaping headlock manoeuvre gone wrong), Mark Webbink general counsel for Red Hat is now kicking out with claims that SCO cannot survive the legal war of attrition. SCO has countered by putting up some scary posters. The posters, pegged in the ground outside SCO's corporate HQ, include one showing Linus Torvalds as a fat, dope-smoking hippie wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Legalise stupidity, smoke Linux".

Linux is best deployed as a point solution and is not yet ready for mission-critical enterprise IT, according to delegates at this year’s SAGE-AU (System Administrators Guild of Australia) conference in Hobart.

Mainframe computers inspired many of the features now found in more pedestrian hardware. The focus is now moving to highly flexible and scalable clusters.

As part of Computerworld's silver anniversary celebrations 25 IT managers recall the ups and downs of their careers. Here, Ian Jenkins, director of information technology, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Qld, shares his experiences with Rodney Gedda.