Friday | 16 May, 2008
Infrastructure
Features
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Police tech: How cops use IT to catch bad guys 12 February, 2008 08:01:31
In the US, police demonstrate how they use high-tech gear to fight crime and promote public safetyEver wonder what that cop is doing in his cruiser that's parked behind your car with lights flashing -- while your heart is pounding and you're searching for your license and registration? - +
Privacy, Data Integrity Critical 30 August, 2007 10:42:05
CSIRO says the preservation of privacy and data integrity will both be critical to the success of electronic service delivery for the Australian governmentCSIRO says the preservation of privacy and data integrity will both be critical to the success of efforts to develop a new form of electronic service delivery for the Australian government. - +
DVA Seeks Security 16 August, 2007 15:46:05
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is killing two birds with a single stone as it moves to tackle spam and address strict new data protection requirementsThe Department of Veterans' Affairs is killing two birds with a single stone as it moves to tackle spam and address strict new data protection requirements - +
Beneath the Coles Kimono: The Spotlight on IT Transformation 04 July, 2007 14:33:35
Flagged as the largest takeover in Australian corporate history, the bid represents the endpoint — but only as far as financial markets are concerned. For the executives running the businesses the takeover marks the beginning of a new era.By the time the board of retailing giant Coles Group recommended Wesfarmers' $21.9 billion takeover bid this week, the company had been in play for over a year. During that time its executives had to steer a steady course; maintaining shareholder value and positioning the business for future growth - setting to one side the knowledge that everything being done today could be unravelled tomorrow by a new owner. - +
Coles CIO: The Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical 04 July, 2007 14:38:29
In a timely interview, Coles CIO Peter Mahler talks with CIO magazine’s Beverley Head about the company’s IT and the controversy that arose during the takeoverThe relationship is much more sophisticated these days, throughout the corporate world. In Coles, technology requirements are defined by the business and IT working together, based on the business's strategic objectives.
Case Studies
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When Yanking the Mainframe Isn't an Option 04 February, 2003 11:29:40
Employees, partners and customers want access to information on demand. They don’t want to wait months or years to get the capability. Yet, existing legacy systems weren’t designed for such flexibility, and IT budgets are tight.Minnesota's solution may have been cheap and inelegant, but it works just fine.
Interviews
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Techniques for Testers 03 February, 2006 10:35:55
Dr Magdy Hanna, chairman of the International Institute for Software Testing talks about the discipline of testing software and about techniques testers can use to improve what they do.An interview with Dr Magdy Hanna. - +
GM's Cure for Complexity 06 October, 2004 11:33:56
GM has rallied its IT staff around enterprise architecture, with a goal to turn the lumbering giant of the past into a more limber, quick-to-pounce business in which corporate decision-making is informed by timely data, not confused or confounded by system complexity.GM CTO Tony Scott tells how his IT group achieves simplicity and ROI by mapping business functionalities and requirements to its IT systems. But Scott never lets his business peers know it's called "enterprise architecture". - +
Interview: Cops Tool Up to Do a Job On Data 15 December, 2003 14:02:59
Part of the challenge is that product of so much of today's police work now entails some form of digital product or audit trail.While Tony Rooke has been NSW Police CIO for less than a fortnight, he has outlined some of the biggest technological changes since the introduction of radio for police operational communications.
Opinions
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From Inception to Implementation — IT That Matters 07 May, 2007 14:22:38
ITIL Goes StrategicThe new update to the IT Infrastructure Library could help you improve IT-business alignment and change your focus from fire fighting to service delivery - +
If You Build It (Right), IT Will Work 11 December, 2006 13:15:27
Ideas and Insights from the CIO Executive Council.Take off your CIO hat for a moment and imagine you're in charge of building a new housing development. The first thing you'd do is hire an architectural firm to create a master plan. Then you'd bring in the builders. They'd take the blueprint and build your development, hewing to the architectural vision. Now, put your CIO hat back on. This analogy - offered by Michael Rapken, CIO of transportation company YRC Worldwide - is worth internalizing as you construct your IT department today. - +
Inside the Software Testing Quagmire 03 February, 2006 14:32:45
There are few things worse than being responsible for a software project mired in testing. To those waiting to use the software, the project seems done. But it isn't.Software testing reveals the human failings behind the code. That's why it can become a never-ending exercise in denial. Here are five questions that you can ask to help you cut through to testing's root problems. - +
City Planning: A Metaphor for Enterprise Architecture 10 May, 2004 14:11:23
Companies are focusing on "building codes" that define the principles and guidelines for architecture and on "building permits" that are granted to change initiatives that have been deemed compliant through the architecture review process.Build IT right and the business will come. - +
Meeting Real Needs 07 October, 2003 15:31:26
Spending billions of dollars to maintain one private company’s business model could be a waste of the increasingly rare taxpayer dollar. Governments should insist on the use of open, documented and interoperable file formats and data communication protocols.It's time for government IT purchasers to start taking open source solutions seriously.
Reviews
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Good Software Gone Bad 15 May, 2001 16:08:47
Ten years ago, computer security guru Fred Cohen made a revolutionary suggestion, one that inverted the roles of hardware and software. In traditional IS architectures, hardware persists while software is transient; the same processor executes instructions from many programs. This is why we say that software runs on hardware. Cohen suggested building an architecture around mobile programs, applications that would move around a network, recruiting and organizing hardware as needed. In this vision, the programs would endure while the hardware would come and go. In effect, the hardware would run on the software.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Phishing botnet expands by hacking legit sites 15 May, 2008 08:10:59
Plants SQL injection attack tool on bots, hacks business, education sitesA botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher. - +
Which IT security skills are most important? 14 May, 2008 09:21:43
There are two types of security skills that might be needed in a company: tactical security operations and strategic risk management.I often hear from IT executives that it is hard to recruit and retain "good security people." Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs? - +
Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says 14 May, 2008 08:36:43
Vulnerable encryption keys erased by HyBlue's IceLockThe vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday. - +
Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet 14 May, 2008 16:45:04
Content filtering gets budget go-aheadCommunications Minister Stephen Conroy has pushed ahead with the controversial [[artid:420013177|national content filtering scheme|ISP filtering]] with a $125.8 million budget allocation announced today. - +
Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers 15 May, 2008 07:07:51
A hacker has written rootkit software that works on Cisco's routers.A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
F-Secure Represented On The International Advisory Board IMPACT 16 May, 2008 13:42:00
Quantum announces General Availability of Industry's First Solution Designed to Match De-Duplication Functionality to Specific B 16 May, 2008 10:44:00
Hansen Technologies Extends Contract With Tokyo Electric Power Company 16 May, 2008 09:44:00
More Than 140 Higher Education Institutions Worldwide Use RightNow on Demand CRM 15 May, 2008 18:06:00
DST International Names Rob Gould as Director of Business Development and Strategy for Australia 15 May, 2008 15:40:00
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