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    In depth: The new help desk - agile, educational, efficient

    But Gartner says, "Most corporate help desks are outdated."
    A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. A keyboard stops working, or Outlook crashes repeatedly, and a technician is just a phone call away. Even complex issues can usually be resolved internally, and relatively quickly, without needing an outside vendor.
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    Resources CIOs in Australia

    Australia's resources industry is booming and the pressure is on CIOs to deliver
    In a fast growing sector, the bottom line is everything
More >Enterprise
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    Resources CIOs in Australia

    Australia's resources industry is booming and the pressure is on CIOs to deliver
    In a fast growing sector, the bottom line is everything
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    Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

    World IPv6 Launch event date is June 6 - why it is the significant
    A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
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    Big data - Part 2

    Will in-memory computing solve Big Data problems?
    A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.
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    Big data - Part 1

    The rate of data growth in the world is mind boggling
    According to IDC’s Digital Universe report the data created globally on an annual basis will leap from 1.2 zettabytes this year to 35 zettabytes in 2020 (one zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes).
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    Resources CIOs in Australia

    Australia's resources industry is booming and the pressure is on CIOs to deliver
    In a fast growing sector, the bottom line is everything
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    2011's biggest security snafus

    There's plenty to consider and plenty of absolute classics
    Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency Operations Center because no one knew the password.
More >Industries
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    Supply chain management in Australia - Part 2

    CIOs must work with all aspects of the business to ensure systems are up to today's challenges
    If supply chain experts can spend so much time and effort improving efficiency and still have more work to do, how are smaller companies meant to get their supply chains right? It’s not as if they have been standing still: CIOs at FMCG organisations and other companies of all sizes have long focused on using high-end supply chain management solutions to trim fat from their company supply chains. Many embarked upon massive enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations a decade ago as they stared down the end-of-life of existing systems and the spectre of the Y2K bug. Yet while their intentions were good, the same can’t be said for the methods of resolution.
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    Supply chain management in Australia - Part 1

    CIOs must work with all aspects of the business to ensure systems are up to today's challenges
    It all started, as these things sometimes do, with a chicken.
More >Sourcing
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    A new era of IT transformation

    A sponsored roundtable by EMC
    The days of large IT transformation projects are over. In their place will be a new kind of IT transformation: smaller in scale, near-constant and more responsive to business needs — but with vast potential to revolutionise how IT is used by enterprises.
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    Supply chain management in Australia - Part 2

    CIOs must work with all aspects of the business to ensure systems are up to today's challenges
    If supply chain experts can spend so much time and effort improving efficiency and still have more work to do, how are smaller companies meant to get their supply chains right? It’s not as if they have been standing still: CIOs at FMCG organisations and other companies of all sizes have long focused on using high-end supply chain management solutions to trim fat from their company supply chains. Many embarked upon massive enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations a decade ago as they stared down the end-of-life of existing systems and the spectre of the Y2K bug. Yet while their intentions were good, the same can’t be said for the methods of resolution.
More >Technology
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    Resources CIOs in Australia

    Australia's resources industry is booming and the pressure is on CIOs to deliver
    In a fast growing sector, the bottom line is everything
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    HTC Velocity 4G speedtest

    How fast is the HTC Velocity 4G? We find out
    The HTC Velocity 4G promises data speeds of up to five times faster than its competitors, but is it really that fast? We put it to the test.
More >Opinions
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    Wednesday Grok: SOPA opponents crank up The Angry

    Information wants to be free, but someone has to get paid
    You know it is evil because Rupert Murdoch supports it. We're talking about the Stop Online Priacy Act (SOPA) and its sister, Protect IP Act (PIPA).
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    2012 tech predictions: From IDG's editors worldwide

    Consumerization of IT is the consensus choice of the new year's major technology force, one that will manifest itself in several forms
    What is 2012 likely to bring to the tech industry and its users?
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    Ubuntu's risky leap: Unity on Wayland

    Today Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced on his blog that the Ubuntu distribution will move away from the traditional X.org display environment to Wayland a more modern alternative.
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    5 open source groupware suites to watch

    Messaging and groupware is at the heart of business and applications most people use everyday. While the big names like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Google Apps are increasing their influence, enterprises have several viable open source options. Of course, there plenty of complaints about the quirks and complications of the bi- name groupware suites so perhaps it’s time to give the lesser-known options a try. In this installment of 5 open source things to watch, we take a look at open source groupware suites which can communicate without costing the farm.
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    Android vs iPhone

    I picked up my first Android phone at the beginning of this year — the Google Nexus One. Prior to that I had been a BlackBerry user and the IT organisations I managed all ran BES servers and only supported BlackBerry devices so the transition to the Nexus One was quite a significant one.
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    CIO Blast from the Past: 60 years of Hamming codes

    In 1950 Bell Labs researcher, Richard W Hamming, made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the entire modern computing and communications industries. He had invented a code for correcting errors in communication and the Hamming code was born. CIO Blast from the Past takes a journey through 60 years of information theory and discovers how the Hamming code legacy lives on today.
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    Google search engine now detects bad businesses

    In an uncharacteristically public way, Google has acknowledged modifying its search engine so it can identify businesses that provide bad service and lower their search results rankings accordingly.
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    Google Nexus S gives Apple huge headache

    Google has dived back into hardware, formally announcing its second smartphone, the Nexus S for US and UK consumers.
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    WikiLeaks.org downed by domain hosting service

    WikiLeaks' main website could not be accessed on Friday through its WikiLeaks.org domain name after a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Services terminated its domain name service.
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    Five open source help desk apps to watch

    If your help desk software is giving you trouble, there are some open source options available. In this part of CIO's five open source applications to watch we take a look at help desk software, which is the basis of incident response and IT service delivery.
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    5 open source billing systems to watch

    Collecting money from customers should be the easy part of your business, but a contrary billing system can make life unnecessarily difficult for CIOs. In this edition of 5 open source products to watch, we take a look at billing systems. They’re open source, Web-based and can be extended and integrated to suit specific needs.
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    How to create a clear project plan

    One of the critical factors for project success is having a well-developed project plan.
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    CIOs talk: iPad adoption strategies

    As CIOs battle the influx of tablet devices in the workplace, deliberation over enterprise adoption strategies is on the rise.
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    Smart grid market progressing, but fractured: Logica

    Victoria’s failed smart meter rollout has prompted a radical shift in the way that smart grids are viewed by the energy sector, according to Logica.
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    5 open source BI projects to watch

    Business intelligence (BI) is frequently among the top prioroties for CIOs and finding the right software to do the job is always a challenge. Cloud-based software may be all the rage, but CIOs must still manage in-house information and make better use of it through analytics and reporting tools. The big four software companies have all made strategic investments in the BI space over recent years and the options have dimnished, but there are alternative tools popping up and snatching a lot of customers in the process. This installment of '5 open source things to watch' is all about BI that doesn't scar the annual report.
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    Tight jobs market to feel skills pinch post 2010

    Don’t wait for the New Year - start looking for a new job now - is the recommendation of one recruitment agency which predicts a soft market in 2011.
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    5 open source ERP projects to watch

    Whatever the incarnation, Enterprise Resource Planning is at the heart of every business with the world’s largest software companies are all clamouring for a piece of the action. The big vendors may scoff at the idea of an open source ERP suite, but given the success rate of traditional ERP projects, CIOs could do worse than take a look at free options. In this edition of 5 open source things to watch, we take a look at ERP suites where the barrier to entry – for testing, at least – is on the small side.
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    WikiLeaks vows to never say die with 355 new websites

    WikiLeaks has asked the Web community to open mirror sites so it cannot be downed or censored and said Monday that 355 new sites are already up.
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    Wednesday Grok: Alleged anti-poaching conspiracy looks shabby, shameless and probably very expensive 01 February, 2012 10:34:00

    Also, how to find out who unfriended you on Facebook
    Company executives who conspire to manipulate prices are breaking the law. Generally, this involves a company agreeing with competitors to keep prices high. But conspiring to keep prices artificially low, if that's what's happened, may land some of the tech sectors’ biggest firms in very hot java.
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    Apple FileVault 2 encryption cracked by forensic software 03 February, 2012 22:07:00

    Users warned to deactivate automatic login
    The encryption keys for Apple's FileVault 2 full-disk encryption used with OS X Lion can be recovered "in minutes" from memory, password-cracking outfit Passware has announced.
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    Security Manager's Journal: Should physical security belong to us? 03 February, 2012 08:22:00

    I've always wanted to be responsible for physical security. I never understood why the security of computers, networks and data is managed by a different department than the security of doors, windows and cameras. The same principles apply in both worlds. And let's face it: Physical security is actually run on computers. So I think it's perfectly natural for information security to own it.
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    Google to auto probe Android Market for malware 03 February, 2012 22:18:00

    An answer to malware and rebuttal to calls for it to vet apps first.
    Google has unveiled Bouncer, its answer to the growing threat of maliciously laced software available on the Android Market.
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    SaaS, APTs and asymmetric risk take spotlight at Security Threats 2012 03 February, 2012 09:40:00

    I had the opportunity to speak at a new security conference last week, Security Threats 2012. I presented on the topic of balancing business benefits with risks in the cloud (more on that later), but the event touched on a wide range of pertinent IT topics, provoking stimulating discussions of some of the most pressing challenges business leaders are facing.
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