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Stories by: Peter Hind

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    Marriage on the Rocks 06 May, 2008 16:09:55

    Ian Angus, NCR Australia's MD in the mid 1980s, was the first person to advise me that the relationship between a CIO and their IT supplier was akin to a marriage
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    Wanted: ITIL 3.0 champions 13 February, 2008 09:23:12

    The Internet was defined in 1974, but, in 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book called 'The Road Ahead' and failed to mention how it would transform our lives. Similarly, Informational Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) first saw light of day in the UK in the mid 1980s. Today there is hardly a serious CIO who has not embraced this set of concepts and techniques for managing IT infrastructure, development and operations. However, it has taken a long time to gain traction and is only now gaining significant support in the US.
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    The Digital Divide 04 February, 2008 13:15:03

    In all the post mortems I have read about John Howard's downfall I've seen no mention of the part IT played. Yet I believe that it was the then federal government's ignorance of IT that was the first thing Kevin Rudd exploited to paint himself as a man of the future. His ambitious proposal to roll out a high-speed broadband service was really his first big policy announcement
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    Antisocial Tendencies 10 December, 2007 14:22:34

    I can be a real Neanderthal when it comes to technology. I don't rush to embrace the latest and greatest. Nor am I interested in gadgets and the digital lifestyle. Instead I get enthused by the business practicality of technology in overcoming problems and transforming processes. If 25 years in IT has taught me one thing it is that the best products are the robust ones, which usually means they have been around for some time
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    Wiki Wacky 02 October, 2007 09:55:55

    I strongly believe that IT practitioners should take a conservative approach when it comes to the adoption of technology
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    Heavenly Sent 03 September, 2007 14:14:51

    It must seem like heaven to a CIO: A software product that only costs you something when you use it. A product that eliminates software upgrade angst and support requests. The neon sign over the pearly gates reads "Software as a service", better known as SaaS
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    Hole in My SOX 06 August, 2007 12:15:42

    Please allow me to eat some humble pie. Last year I used one of these columns to call for IT vendors to put a sock in all their pronouncements about Sarbanes-Oxley
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    A Price to Pay 05 July, 2007 10:07:09

    I thought the project was going to be a doddle. A certain vendor wanted the prices of its rivals' products so it could gauge the price-competitiveness of its own offerings
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    Philosophical Differences 05 June, 2007 10:41:18

    Even after 25 years in the IT industry it has taken me a fair amount of time to get my head around the topic of service-oriented architecture (SOA)
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    The Lucky Country? 07 May, 2007 14:10:51

    You would think that someone living close to the CBD of Australia's largest city would have a reasonable chance of getting satisfactory Internet service. Think again
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    Work Experience 03 April, 2007 13:25:23

    For as long as I can remember experts have pointed to inexperience and poor judgement as the reasons so many young people are involved in road accidents. Certainly experience does count in all walks of life, but perhaps most measurably in business. The longer you do a task the better you become at it.
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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.
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    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 fails
    Symantec 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.
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    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 representative
    Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
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    Kaspersky Lab CEO backs out of IPO plans 08 February, 2012 02:10:00

    Founder buys back 20 percent stake
    Kaspersky 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.
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    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 2011
    Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks.
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