Stories about: Unisys

With the current state of the US economy, many IT project managers understand that their budgets may be trimmed in the coming months as companies look to adjust their spending.

Outsourcing, grid computing, and hacker professionalism are trends that cannot be stopped, and the sum total of those factors will have a dramatic effect on the way businesses attempt to protect their IT system in the future, researchers and analysts agree.

You just rolled out Microsoft Windows Vista companywide, only to find your help desk flooded with calls. Or you spent hours with the mobile sales group going over the basics of laptop and wireless security, only to discover team members still opening rogue e-mail attachments and stumbling over password protocols.

Unisys Australia is ramping up its staff numbers in Canberra to deliver on the new regional information communication technology (ICT) support services contract with the Australian Department of Defence announced earlier this month.

Fruehwald is this month's guest Premier 100 IT Leader, answering questions about balancing tech and soft skills, job satisfaction, resumes and youth vs. experience.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 may not ship officially until February 28, but early adopters are running it in production networks and reporting solid results with new features including everything from stretched clusters to workload specific configurations of the server.

Unisys announced today its Australian subsidiary has signed a $240 million contract with the Australian Department of Defence.

Beset by financial problems, Unisys announced a strategy that shifts its servers and storage business from a hardware-centric tack to a more holistic approach emphasizing a combination of hardware, software and services, including virtualization offerings.

This year, 2008, risks being the year of the revolving door if employers continue to focus simply on attracting new staff, rather than developing and retaining current employees. The resulting staff turnover is expected to cost Australian businesses more than $A100 billion over the coming 12 months, according to forecasts by Unisys.

Remember when Oracle was a database vendor and Sun Microsystems sold workstations? Yes, you can still buy Oracle 11g or a Sun Ultra. But last week's big deals -- Oracle's US$8.5 billion buyout of BEA Systems and Sun's US$1 billion deal for MySQL -- remind us that the days when vendors fit into tidy niches are long gone.

Virtualization could hardly be hotter as a trend, yet virtualization management and security tools are still in their infancy. At first glance, it defies logic.