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Make mine modular: The rise of prefab data centers 09 August, 2011 01:01:00
When John Campbell talks about Purdue University's soon-to-be implemented modular data center, he can hardly hide his enthusiasm. - +
A hardened approach to system security 19 April, 2011 05:41:00
Glenn Phillips, president of Pelham, Ala.-based Forté, says that the dedicated Windows workstations his company sells to hospital emergency room administrators must not only be secure, but absolutely tamperproof as well. After all, lives depend on the machines' flawless operation. - +
Maximizing server uptime: Best practices 11 November, 2010 02:01:00
In an IT world full of elusive goals, there's probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime. - +
Minimize server-consolidation mistakes 24 March, 2010 07:25:00
Joe Latrell, IT manager and lead programmer for GetMyHomesValue.com, a real estate data services company in Lancaster, Pa., knows that it's all too easy for even a knowledgeable and experienced IT veteran to make mistakes while managing a complex server-consolidation project. "You have to think about everything," he says. "It can be a minefield." - +
Does GPL still matter? 11 August, 2009 04:00:00
Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications for his company's future. That decision: to toss away his upcoming product's Gnu General Public License (GPL), the best-known and most popular free software license, in favor of what he viewed as a more business-friendly alternative. "We initially started the product with a GPLv3 license and we decided last summer to move the license to Apache," Haynie says. - +
Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk 01 October, 2008 08:45:00
September 2008 will certainly go down as one of the blackest months in Wall Street history. Venerable financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG abruptly vanished or were radically overhauled. Investors lost loads of money -- in some cases, fortunes -- and ordinary taxpayers are now finding themselves funding an industry bailout that could cost a staggering US$700 billion, perhaps even more. - +
Text Analytics: Your Customers Are Talking About You 17 June, 2008 08:17:11
If you're in the hotel business, customer satisfaction isn't just a key metric, it's one that can make or break the company. But until recently, addressing sources of customer dissatisfaction was taking too long for Gaylord Hotels. US-based Gaylord, which operates 4 resort hotels in the Nashville; Dallas; Orlando, Florida; and Washington areas, needed a quick, clear view of how customers and meeting planners viewed its properties and services, as well as alerts to budding problems. - +
Seek and Ye Shall (Hopefully) Find 07 July, 2005 08:00:00
Are your employees and customers looking for answers? Enterprise search vendors promise to help you help them. - +
Thinking Inside the Box 10 March, 2004 12:02:38
Buying one security product containing an arsenal of capabilities is convenient, cheap and potentially dangerous. - +
Energy Supply - Fuel's Gold? 06 February, 2004 10:01:36
As a PC power source, fuel cells may lack energy. - +
Dawn of a New PC 06 February, 2004 09:54:27
PCs are getting faster and fancier. And thin is in.
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CIO industry insight podcast #11: Brad Howarth talks about the future of broadband 15 June, 2011 09:17:33
Journalist for CIO Australia, Lisa Banks, chats to Brad Howarth about A Faster Future; the book he co-authored with Janelle Ledwidge. - +
CIO Live Podcast #89: Graham Waller, vice president and executive partner, Gartner 24 November, 2010 14:34:44
CIO Australia editor, Georgina Swan, talks with Graham Waller, co-author of The CIO Edge - 7 Leadership Skills you need to drive results. The book examines the key skills CIOs need and how to develop them,focusing on the importance of the interplay between IT processes and people leadership. - +
CIO industry insight podcast #10: Rob Livingstone discusses the instruments required to fly into the cloud 14 October, 2010 10:08:38
CIO Australia editor, Georgina Swan, talks to the 'accidental CIO' about the opportunities and pitfalls of the cloud - +
CIO Industry Insight Podcast #9: Tim Ayling, Chief Executive Officer, Platform46 06 August, 2010 09:22:40
CIO Australia editor, Georgina Swan, talks with Platform46 CEO, Tim Ayling, about collaboration in the enterprise. - +
Special Report: Green and Sustainable IT in the Enterprise 15 April, 2010 11:58:23
Despite all the hype surrounding Green IT, many CIOs and senior IT executives are unsure about the best way to start their organisations on the green journey. In this special edition podcast, CIO Australia editor Matt Rodgers speaks to Sundeep Khisty, Green Practice Leader, HP Enterprise Services, Asia Pacific & Japan, about how CIOs can best guide IT to become a core part of a company's sustainability strategy.
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Data breach: Only 16 per cent self-identified 08 February, 2012 13:26:00
POS system attacks come of age in Australia.Only 16 per cent of organisations that faced a breach in 2011 detected it prior to a notification by a third party, according to an analysis of investigations conducted last year by Trustwave's SpiderLabs security team. - +
Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code 08 February, 2012 06:12:00
Confirms that BitTorrent file is pcAnywhere's source code after sting operation failsSymantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate. - +
Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere 07 February, 2012 18:17:00
The hacker group had earlier released emails between a hacker and a person said to be a Symantec representativeHacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. - +
Kaspersky Lab CEO backs out of IPO plans 08 February, 2012 02:10:00
Founder buys back 20 percent stakeKaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky has cancelled plans for the firm to go public, announcing his intention to buy back a 20 percent stake sold to a private equity investor a year ago. - +
Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report 08 February, 2012 01:34:49
Japan named as primary source of DDoS attack traffic for Q4 2011Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks.
Software AG Delivers a New Generation of Business Mashups with ARIS MashZone 2.0 17 September, 2010 11:37:00
Software AG Named a Leader in Business Process Management Suites by Independent Research Firm 09 September, 2010 14:35:00
Europe’s Silicon Valley – Delivering Sustainable Economic Growth is the Agenda 02 September, 2010 09:44:00
Kyocera takes the guess work out of cutting technology costs 27 January, 2010 17:20:00
Riverbed Provides Seamless Integration Between Network Assessment and Acceleration with Enhanced Cascade Solution 27 January, 2010 15:25:00
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