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Service-oriented architecture promises many positives: resource reuse, application integration, business agility and infrastructure flexibility, among others. But never do SOA proponents claim ease of management as one of the technology's glories.

Acting as a bridge, spanning the gap between the business and IT, good business analysts are increasingly sought after by enterprises wishing to extract more value from their current and future information systems. But finding a business analyst is not easy: there are only 60 paid-up members of the Australian Business Analysis Association, and the Australian chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis claims a paid-up list of 120 members

The US government got an overall grade of C-minus in a computer security report card that evaluates the performance of 24 individual agencies covered by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

Despite perceptions that IT projects today are "ROI'd to death", organizations are still struggling to control demand for IT services and allocate scarce resources to where they are of most value.

Open source software is a given in most enterprise data centers, so it's not surprising to see the ranks of open source companies and projects swell. It's not just Linux anymore - community-developed software is offering alternatives for everything from databases to application servers to network management to disaster preparedness. How do you know which open source approach is right for you? We've pulled out a few start-ups that you might not be familiar with, but we think should be on your radar.

Done well, consolidation and virtualization can cut computing costs while improving performance

Application monitoring tools can help companies tune up their engines

It's not only about golf and cocktails any more. To successfully sell IT, CIOs must align projects with customer needs and then prove they delivered value. Better learn these eight essential sales techniques - your budget may be at stake

When John Michael Sullivan moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, to help develop a mobile computer program for Lance Incorporated, he hung up an old plaque. Inscribed "Dr Crime's Terminal of Doom", the memento celebrated Sullivan's youthful love of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - and his reputation as a computer hacker who went by the handle Dr Crime.

Gartner: Get over the e-biz hype...HP expands portal offerings...UPDATE: CNET to buy ZDNet for $1.6 bln in stock...Mega portal selects PwC...Non-strategic functions should be outsourced...$20 million to incubate 250 startups..Melbourne IT cagey as domain expands further....Sybase IT incubator opens Asian markets...ICANN green-lights new top-level domains...Oracle readying ASP announcements for end of month...EDS launches hosted CRM solutions...Microsoft rolls out plans to embrace ASPs...Australian online advertising spend $22m in Q2...Analysts mixed about IBM's future...

New enterprise systems management frameworks make controlling distributed computing environments as easy as connecting the dots. So why are CIOs hesitant to take the ESM brush to the IS canvas?