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  • Tennis Australia scores storage win

    If there is anybody who understands the need for flexibility and scalability in a system, it’s Chris Yates from Tennis Australia. As the CIO of the governing body for tennis in the country, Yates oversees an IT strategy that is perhaps best known for supporting the organisation’s prestigious tournaments, including the Australian Open and Davis cup.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 28 Sept. 10 10:50

  • Tips to building a better wireless network

    More and more iPhones, iPads, BlackBerries, Droids, netbooks and even game consoles began appearing on Bryant & Stratton College's campuses--and CIO Ernest Lehman worried they'd lead to big trouble.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 10 Sept. 10 08:40

  • Brisbane Girls Grammar undergoes major Microsoft upgrade

    Brisbane Girls Grammar School has become one of the first Australian private education bodies to undertake a roll-out of Windows 7, Office 2010, Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V.

    Written by Jenna Pitcher • 27 Aug. 10 12:15
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    Coca-Cola Amatil's journey: Lotus Notes to BPOS

    Beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is halfway through the massive task of migrating its over 8000 employees from Lotus Notes to Microsoft's hosted Business Productivity Online Suite, the company revealed in a presentation at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference on the Gold Coast this week.

    Written by Jenna Pitcher • 27 Aug. 10 09:34

  • The policeman's new partner: iPhone

    Chances are you've never heard of the iPhone app One Force Tracker, one of the coolest apps never to appear on the App Store. The iPhone app, created by defense contractor Raytheon for the U.S. military late last year, helps soldiers keep tabs with each other via GPS during missions and identifies known sniper sites and fallback positions on a map.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 12 Aug. 10 03:47

  • Google Apps Fits at Italian Fashion House Roberto Cavalli

    Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli had an IT mess on its hands. In the last year, it reorganised internally, consolidating 27 assets into nine, and in the process, faced the challenge of streamlining its many disparate systems into one.

    Written by Kristin Burnham • 11 Aug. 10 07:33

  • MCG ditches analogue for digital security

    The Melbourne Cricket Ground has moved to an open source IP security system to manage high definition CCTV and ground access control.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 29 July 10 07:00
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    Boystown updates Lotus Notes

    When Australian youth charity BoysTown was looking at the future of its Lotus Notes/Domino collaboration platform late in 2009, ICT manager Julius Bergh knew that the group had to make a decision.

    Written by Renai LeMay • 02 July 10 13:42

  • South East Water taps into unified communications

    As one of Melbourne’s three state-owned water retailers, South East Water provides water, sewerage services and recycled water services to about 1.4 million customers in the Melbourne’s South Bank through to the Mornington Peninsula and Gippsland. The company has about $2 billion of assets in the ground and about 800 information workers. Given the distributed nature of the organisation, it’s not surprising that having flexible, robust communication systems is vital. Add its busy, industry-recognised contact centres into the mix and it quickly became clear to CIO, Marcus Darbyshire, that the company required an innovative approach to its communications technology that would provide a platform for the future.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 10 June 10 09:34

  • Planning virtualization moves wisely

    Not so long ago, if Underwriters Laboratories needed to add three additional servers worth of computing power in three weeks, the company just bought three new units, says Kent Walker, manager of computer operations for UL. With more time for capacity analysis - which is both labor and time-intensive - Walker might be able to shift resources around and stave off the purchase. But when the need is immediate, there's no time for that.

    Written by Carol Sliwa • 26 May 08 09:58

  • Avoid Pitfalls of Health-care Wi-Fi Networks

    In healthcare, network dependability can literally be a matter of life and death, and US federal law mandates security and privacy levels beyond those needed in any other vertical industry outside finance and national security. And many health-care providers operate on shoestring budgets, in part because of the large population of uninsured individuals

    Written by Bert Latamore • 04 June 07 11:50
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