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Cybersecurity challenges in 2013
The issues affecting businesses are similar around the world. The key issues and points of vulnerability are around human engagement. [ + ]
EMC extends flash storage for enterprises
EMC’s Xtrem family of flash-optimised server and storage products is a PCIe-based flash card that is designed to accelerate application performance. [ + ]
The ethical footprints of big data, business intelligence and data mining
With the increasing popularity of big data, business intelligence, and data mining and analytics, our ethical footprints are becoming both more expansive and harder to see. [ + ]
Start preparing for Privacy Bill changes
Australian organisations should act now and start preparing for next year’s changes to privacy law, lest they breach the new rules and cop a huge fine. [ + ]
Mapping childhood obesity factors in Australia
Councils in South Australia will soon have access to information to help reduce childhood obesity, thanks to a geographic information system (GIS) project at South Australia’s Department for Health and Ageing. [ + ]
Vodafone creates 750 jobs, faces class action lawsuit; Oakeshott blasts corruption of NBN oversight
In this last week, Vodafone Australia announced it would relocate 750 jobs from its Mumbai call centre to Australia, while law firm Piper Alderman revealed it would soon launch a class action against the telco. Plus: independent MP Rob Oakeshott claimed that oversight of the NBN is being tainted by major party politics. [ + ]
What about on-premises computing?
We have been mesmerised by the large migration that’s been taking place as organisations move their workloads from on-premises deployments to off-premises. What happens to what remains behind? [ + ]
The quest for a rock solid data centre
With the increasing demands by businesses and consumers for more data, it’s the data centre that’s feeling the squeeze. What’s it take to create a rock solid data centre? [ + ]
No boundaries: the mobility challenge
The increasing desire for businesses to deliver services to staff and customers on any device, at any time and in any place is driving the third era where IT delivery deals with an enterprise without walls or boundaries. [ + ]
Teleworking: technology without science or reason
When tech giants like Google and Yahoo! deter their own employees from teleworking, it raises red flags, given that the perceived wisdom around teleworking and working from home is that it improves productivity. Most of the research into teleworking, however, is tainted by corporate and governmental bias. [ + ]
Quigley questions FTTP for NBN; Job cuts at Australia’s biggest telcos
In the news this week, NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley calls for a study in broadband technologies, despite being four years into the NBN’s rollout, and three Aussie telcos flag job cuts. [ + ]
Why are we building data centres?
You’d think that with the consolidation of computing driven by blade servers and virtualisation that the number and size of data centres would be shrinking. But the opposite is true. [ + ]
Massive Telecom NZ email hack; Adobe CEO dodges pricing debate; NBN Co passes the buck
In news this week, Telecom NZ’s Yahoo! Xtra email service hacked, Adobe global CEO Shantanu Narayen avoids questions about the company’s high Australian prices, and NBN Co blames contractor Syntheo for NBN install delays. [ + ]
IT tips for mid-size organisations
Mid-size organisations exist in an odd part of the budget spectrum: they have significantly more difficult IT burdens to bear than smaller organisations, but they don’t quite have the expansive budgets that a larger organisation might have to deal with such problems. [ + ]
Three IT problems you didn’t know you had
With so much change happening in enterprise IT with the proliferation of mobile devices, the introduction of BYOD and shifts towards cloud-based systems, there can be moments where the importance of security can take a back step in the name of expedience. [ + ]