Stories about: ASG

Accreditation is crucial to milk the most from IT Service Management (ITSM) deployments, according to the Australian ITSM forum (ITSMf).

The ASG Group (ASX: ASZ) is promising to have a very profitable financial year, if its results for the first half are any indication.

Growing revenues from new products and services, stronger balance sheets, acquisitions paying off, and positive outlooks for the rest of the year are the messages in the recent releases of the first-half results. Aussie vendors' half-year financial results appear to be on track to deliver full-year growth in sales, revenues, and profits.

The ACT government will re-implement its Oracle Financials system by consolidating nine separate instances into one.

There is no real agreement about whether antivirus software is required in or even a good idea for an enterprise-class firewall.

The high-availability (HA) and scalability features in the enterprise UTM firewalls we tested range from very fancy to dead simple.

Despite the fact that VPNs and firewalls have been residing on the same box for over seven years, our testing of both of the site-to-site and remote access VPN capabilities showed an astonishing variation on the quality of VPN implementations.

IPv6 is the writing on the firewall.

Juniper Networks' ISG-1000 and Cisco's ASA5540 with its add-on SSM-20 IPS module offer no-compromise IPS products that will make the security purist happy with their configurability and control features.

ASG Group has posted a 28 per cent increase in revenue to $75.5 million in the 12 months to June 30. The Perth-based services company also reported a 36 per cent increase in full-year net profit to $7 million. Chief executive, Geoff Lewis, said a strong performance in the eastern states, as well as several prime customer contract wins, helped push the figures up.

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) in Canberra will upgrade its fleet of more than 50 servers over the next three years.