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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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? [ + ]

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? [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

In the last week, Labor MP Ed Husic decried Apple’s tax practices, Oracle made a move on Cisco with the purchase of Acme Packet and the rumoured Dell privatisation deal was announced, then quickly opposed. [ + ]

Recent public criticisms of the Australian Computer Society reflect a scepticism that runs deep in the Australian IT community. The ACS has its work cut out if it wants to be relevant in today’s IT world. [ + ]

While there’s much focus on the impact of cloud technologies on enterprise IT, are we thinking about disaster recovery, backups and other essential services delivered by IT? [ + ]

In news this week: web legend Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls the Australian government’s data retention plans “really, really bad”; Juniper reveals a critical flaw in its routers; and the world speculates on who was behind the recent massive attack on Twitter. [ + ]