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  • How to protect your intellectual property in the Cloud

    Around this time last year, the cloud computing contract signings were coming fast and furious -- not just for commodity work like IT management or email, but for software and infrastructure closer to the core of corporate value. Not long after that, the calls started to come in to Greg Bell, principal and the Americas service leader for information protection at KPMG.

  • IT leaders continue to juggle multiple priorities in 2012

    Analytics and business intelligence has moved back to the top of the technology priority list for CIOs, according to the latest Gartner research into CIO priorities, followed by mobile technologies and Cloud computing — but the pressure is as IT leaders juggle multiple priorities.

  • In pictures: High tech at the Australian Open

    With tennis fans from around the world converging on Melbourne for the Australian Open, Computerworld Australia took a tour of the Rod Laver stadium to see the technology which analyses the two week event.

  • Spanish bank to move 100,000+ employees to Google Apps

    Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) is adopting Google Apps for email and collaboration and expects to have its about 110,000 employees worldwide using the suite by the end of this year.

  • Sydney Uni unveils 'cache-as-a-service' for the Cloud

    A new Cloud cache system developed at the University of Sydney promises to simplify the deployment of applications with large memory requirements.

  • What CIOs really want for Christmas

    The decorations are going up and the office party is the talk of the canteen — yes, Christmas festivities are upon us. While kids everywhere are busy making lists of the toys and gear they want to see under the tree Christmas morning, we asked Australian CIOs what Santa could bring them to make their life easier in 2012.

  • Dept of Environment and Climate Change shares Cloud migration lessons

    IT staff at the Department of Environment and Climate Change in Canberra no longer have to be the “heroes” when equipment breaks down now that data and services have been migrated to the Cloud.

  • Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Player

    After months of anticipation and a limited beta release, Google finally released its Cloud-based music offering, Google Music, in the US.

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    Federated Cloud strategies: What CIOs need to know

    In many ways the concept of federated cloud is ironic. Cloud computing rapidly gained traction because of its ability to manage the complexity of multiple legacy environments while consolidating infrastructure. But as organizations move forward with various cloud initiatives, many CIOs are now wrestling a sprawl of clouds that seems to be spinning out of control.

  • Hadoop skills are in high demand

    The growing enterprise interest in Hadoop and related technologies is driving demand for professionals with big data skills.

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  • Review: Desktop virtualization made easy

    Ever since VMware coined the term, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has conjured images of large data centers, beefy servers, centralized storage, and complex software stacks. It's a given that each VDI installation requires numerous servers, software packages, and storage systems in order to provide desktop virtualization for more than a small handful of users, so VDI just has to be both expensive and complicated to deploy. Right?

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