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CIO Live is a weekly podcast brought to you by CIO Australia's editorial team. Hosted by editor Linda Kennedy, CIO Live addresses the issues vital to CIOs and other business executives who drive technology decisions in pursuit of the competitive edge. Featuring a stimulating mix of news and analysis, including interviews with IT visionaries and senior business decision-makers, CIO Live is an invaluable resource for CIOs looking to align IT strategy to corporate goals and provide bottom-line business value.
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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.
  • CIO Live Podcast #74: Managing the legacy portfolio, part II 31 August, 2007 07:00:00

    Part II in our two-part series of interviews with Gartner's Andrew Rowsell-Jones about developing a sound legacy migration strategy. This week: the change management issues that CIOs face when enacting a legacy migration strategy; plus how to avoid creating new high-value, high-risk legacy systems in your enterprise.
  • CIO Live Podcast #73: Managing the legacy portfolio, part I 24 August, 2007 07:00:00

    No matter how effective a CIO you are, you can't prevent today's applications from ending up as tomorrow's legacy systems. In this week's interview, Gartner's Andrew Rowsell-Jones discusses how to categorise older systems in order to build a persuasive business case for migrating legacy applications.
  • CIO Live Podcast #72: Generation Y, Part III 17 August, 2007 09:00:00

    Ready or not, Generation Y is here and they're heading to your IT department. Part III in our three-part series of interviews with Foster Frontier's Stuart Guest-Smith about the challenges and opportunities represented by Gen Y employees in the IT workforce. This week's topic: What NOT to do when managing Gen Y IT workers, plus resources for CIOs seeking advice on how to bridge the generation gap.
  • CIO Live Podcast #71: Generation Y, Part II 10 August, 2007 09:00:00

    Ready or not, Generation Y is here and they're heading to your IT department. Part II in our three-part series of interviews with Foster Frontier's Stuart Guest-Smith about the challenges and opportunities represented by Gen Y employees in the IT workforce. This week's topic: Successful strategies for hiring and managing Gen Y IT workers.
  • CIO Live Podcast #70: Generation Y 03 August, 2007 18:22:41

    Ready or not, Generation Y is here and they're heading to your IT department. This week: the first interview in our three-part series with Foster Frontier's Stuart Guest-Smith about the challenges and opportunities represented by Gen Y workers in the IT workforce.
  • CIO Live Podcast #69: Harvard Business School Makes Security a Priority 27 July, 2007 09:00:29

    This week, a special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Boston. On today's show, John Arsneault, director of network operations at Harvard Business School, talks about how the famed institution was able to turn around its lax security practices and transform the school's network from a hacker's dream into a secure perimeter - without sacrificing the open environment and collaboration vital to its academic success.
  • CIO Live Podcast #68: Not All VoIP Rollouts Go as Planned 25 July, 2007 10:34:04

    This week, a special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Chicago. Despite a new building and fresh networking gear, a voice over IP implementation does not always go as planned - even for a high-tech outfit like the Argonne National Laboratory. Scott Pinkerton, manager of Argonne's core network infrastructure, explains the hurdles his group faced and the lessons learned from their failed VoIP project.
  • CIO Live Podcast #67: Making the Best 'Right' Decision 13 July, 2007 14:25:15

    Sometimes there can be more than one right answer to a problem. But the option you choose can say a lot about the values of your company-and your leadership. Making these "right versus right" choices can be one of the hardest tasks any manager can perform. But Joseph Badaracco, the John Shad professor of business ethics at Harvard Business School, says there are some simple methods you can apply to help you answer these tough questions.
  • CIO Live Podcast #66: The Teamwork of Innovation 06 July, 2007 15:18:21

    Gentry Lee, chief engineer for planetary flight systems with the Jet Propulsion laboratory, gives compelling advice about how to balance risk and innovation when developing new technology.
  • CIO Live Podcast #65: Ten Top Tips for Software Testing 29 June, 2007 16:36:48

    In this podcast, Meredith Levinson from US CIO magazine discusses the ten best practices for enterprise software testing and what procedures a CIO can follow to ensure hand built code is bug free.
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2008 CIO Summit

19th August, 2008 Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney Developed in partnership with CIO Magazine, IDC, INTEP and the CIO Executive Council.

The world of the CIO is extremely complex and diverse. Multiple priorities demand attention and decisions are needed instantly. Individual teams need to be driven towards common goals, and businesses strive to become more mobile, agile and responsive. For CIOs, the challenge never ends.

Every year the CIO Summit identifies what is top of mind for CIOs across Australia and New Zealand, and offers insight for CIO benchmarking and vendor strategic planning alike.

Recent IDC research shows that over 59% of CIO's believe that 'to achieve their business strategies, technology should be used more aggressively than today.'

Join us on August 19th to discover how this is possible with the latest technologies including Virtualisation, Web 2.0, IP Surveillance and Software as a Service (Saas).

Click here for registration.

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Please email Denyse_Robertson@idg.com.au for further information.

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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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14

    The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...
    The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider.
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    SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19

    Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.
    Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages.
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    Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21

    BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking tools
    Version 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools.
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    Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21

    Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exercise
    Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.
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    ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23

    Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone tracking
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
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