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  • How to improve disaster recovery preparedness

    If you woke up tomorrow and ran a marathon, how would you fare? It's highly doubtful that you would successfully run the 26.2 miles without months of training, drills, and exercises.

    Written by Rachel Dines • 19 Jan. 12 09:22

  • Security needs to become easier for users: Novartis CIO

    The IT industry must take measures to make security easier and faster for employees who are not computer savvy says Novartis Australia chief information officer, Ruth Marshall.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 11 Nov. 11 12:56

  • RIM faces possible class action suit over BlackBerry outages

    Research In Motion faces a possible class action lawsuit over recent outages in its BlackBerry services earlier this month, and a trademark infringement complaint for its use of the BBX name for its upcoming platform for its tablets and smartphones.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 27 Oct. 11 15:13
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    Disaster recovery: The next generation

    Traditional disaster recovery has undergone a fundamental shift as simple backup strategies are replaced by technologies that create resilient businesses.

    Written by Joshua Gliddon • 21 Sept. 11 09:58

  • Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs

    When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston.

    Written by Megan Santosus • 27 Aug. 11 07:53

  • Taken over by aliens? Don't worry; Google has it covered

    Imagine what would happen if all the Google engineers turned rogue and held the world’s Gmail accounts to ransom. Or if aliens attacked earth and wiped California off the map.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 22 Aug. 11 16:41

  • Prevent internal IT sabotage

    Preventing external attacks to IT systems is a huge and critical task for most companies, but what are businesses doing to stop similar attacks when they come from within? That's a question that more companies should be asking themselves as internal IT sabotage cases regularly hit businesses hard, causing big monetary losses and often knocking companies offline for days or weeks.

    Written by Todd R. Weiss • 20 Aug. 11 05:52

  • Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company

    Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald's restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company's computer infrastructure earlier this year.

    Written by Robert McMillan • 17 Aug. 11 09:14

  • NBN reliability: Help guide first step for battery backup

    The roll out of the National Broadband Network is set to revolutionise the way Australians communicate, but it has raised questions about the reliability of the network compared with existing copper-based telephone systems, especially among non-technical people.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 20 July 11 14:48

  • Lockheed Martin fends off IT network attack

    Top US defence contractor, Lockheed Martin, said that it had successfully warded off "a significant and tenacious" attack on its information systems network.

    Written by AAP • 30 May 11 11:11

  • Amazon gets 'black eye' from cloud outage

    For a company that's known as the dominant player in the cloud market, Amazon's troubles on Thursday means a black eye for the company and for the cloud in general.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin • 22 April 11 10:16

  • CIO world view

    A roundup of people, news and events from global CIOs.

    Written by CIO Staff • 22 April 11 09:00

  • What the robots saw: Inside Fukushima nuclear power plant

    A stepladder bent and broken against a rack of electrical equipment, debris covering the ground, on-screen radiation readings in the red zone. These are the first images provided by robots from inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the massive March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami led to the world's second-worst nuclear accident.

    Written by Martyn Williams • 21 April 11 04:03

  • Fukushima Daiichi workers clear debris by remote control

    Remotely controlled construction machinery rolled into the site of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last week to help clear roads and passages of radioactive debris, the plant's operator said.

    Written by Martyn Williams • 13 April 11 10:06

  • Inside a Japanese nuclear power plant

    In August 2007, IDG News Service was invited to the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station. This video provides a rare glimpse at the inside of the world's largest nuclear power plant.

    Written by Martyn Williams • 22 March 11 08:07

  • Westpac reports another online banking glitch

    Westpac has confirmed that it has again suffered a glitch with its online banking portal for the second time in two weeks.

    Written by Tim Lohman • 15 March 11 15:51

  • Telstra power fault takes out Australia Post contact centre phones

    Customers trying to contact Australia Post's call centre in Melbourne had a long wait on Wednesday due to a Telstra (ASX: TLS) uninterruptible power supply (UPS) failure.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 10 March 11 09:46

  • CRM upgrade downs online services at Virgin Mobile

    A CRM and billing system upgrade project at Virgin Mobile has gone south with the mobile carrier unable to offer most of its online services including sales and account management.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 23 Feb. 11 16:21

  • Computer virus shuts down Ambulance dispatch service

    The Ambulance Service of NSW says no lives have been at risk despite the computer system it uses to send paramedics to emergencies being infected by a virus for more than 24 hours and no timescale for when it will be back online.

    Written by AAP • 13 Feb. 11 14:47

  • iPad hackers' chats were turned in by secret source

    The US Government's case against two men charged with hacking into AT&T's website to steal e-mail addresses from about 120,000 iPad users got a boost last year when a confidential source handed over 150 pages of chat logs between the two and other members of their hacking group.

    Written by Robert McMillan • 19 Jan. 11 13:03
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