Stories about: Critical Systems

The relationship between IT and the business is changing says a Gartner analyst, and if IT doesn't let the business work how it wants the workers will only take matters into their own hands.

The mobility and remote-access boom is undeniable. Rapidly expanding wireless bandwidth coupled with the improving capabilities of laptop computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other mobile devices is making it possible for organisations to adopt new means of satisfying the mobile workforce's demand for anytime, anywhere access to information.

A conference being held in Denver this week by the Professional Association for SQL Server user group will provide a forum for the biggest public unveiling to date of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 database.

The period during which businesses work to install security patches to protect IT systems from attack undeniably remains one of the most vulnerable timeframes for many companies -- but a recently-launched startup selling a virtual patching alternative claims to have found a solution to the problem.

Joining the growing trend of federal government departments appointing supplier panels, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) intends to create a register of pre-approved organizations that can deliver and support ICT services and solutions.

Virgin Mobile has just completed an infrastructure upgrade at its multiple data centres to support aggressive growth plans for its 3G network in Australia and New Zealand.

IT staff routinely snoop on users, riffling through their e-mails and personal files, a newly released survey has found.

Ballarat Health Services (BHS) has ditched a bunch of whitebox servers and disparate storage and backup devices for a standardized storage environment.

In today's world of data theft, worm and virus threats, and the need to comply with federal mandates, incorporating network access control (NAC) technology into your network infrastructure isn't an option but rather a critical necessity.

Fibre Channel was definitely not top of mind when Chris Brown hit the wall on disk space and, in mid-2005, decided to go shopping for a SAN. Brown is IT manager for DeltaValve, a division of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control. "I have an IT staff of two," he explains, "and we do not have the resources to support Fibre Channel."

To make the journey from the back room to the boardroom, Commonwealth Bank CEO Ralph Norris yesterday said he had to become a salesman, one that not only sold the benefits of technology but enabled successful implementations.