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Most IT managers and organisations in Australia are yet to wake up to the corporate requirements for reporting and improving greenhouse gas abatement, according to a Gartner analyst who labeled the Garnaut Climate Change Review a call to action for the nation’s IT industry.

Just how secure is your voice over IP (VoIP) telephony system? If it's from Avaya, Cisco or Nortel, you may be in for a surprise. According to new research, popular products from these leading vendors contain upwards of 100 flaws that could let nogoodniks access your corporate system and steal information, or even launch denial of service (DoS) attacks in attempts to extort money from your company's coffers.

Like high-achieving individuals, some organizations seem to have the Midas touch. Virtually every initiative they touch earns them gold and even those that fail never seem to cost them much of anything at all

CIOs say they want more than the traditional "your mess for less" relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening?

Effective collaboration should be about innovation, employee empowerment and the achieving of vastly improved services through the drawing on of what James Surowiecki calls The Wisdom of Crowds

When it comes to cleaning up their act, many CIOs are recognizing data centres as among the lowest hanging fruit. IDC estimates companies spent $US26.1 billion to power and cool servers worldwide in 2005, with a monstrous $14 billion of that being spent in the US alone. In fact, data centres account for between 1.5 and 3 percent of all electricity consumed in the US. Should current trends persist, the research organization projects, that bill will soar to $US50 billion by the end of the decade

Public sector and government organizations around the world are adopting increasingly mature open-source products, with Australia at the front of the trend.

The IT function may mostly be preoccupied with infrastructure, the delivery of IT services and general IT management, but in reality all these activities are about delivering support for the enterprise applications that continue to be the primary vehicle for delivering business functionality

If there's one goal CIOs want to achieve this year, it's to help drive revenue. Some shrewd CIOs have found a little-known route to get there: Price optimization software

Last year when Wendy Cebula was shopping for a new vehicle, energy efficiency and lower emissions topped her list of requirements, along with four-wheel drive (her family lives on a hill)

The new update to the IT Infrastructure Library could help you improve IT-business alignment and change your focus from fire fighting to service delivery