• Security Experts Ask House for Light a Regulatory Touch

  By Kenneth Corbin | 10 February, 2012 01:39

  Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.

• Feds look beyond LightSquared to set GPS interference standards

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 February, 2012 12:57

  A high-ranking federal official and aviation industry leaders called on Wednesday for rules to prevent future interference with GPS, looking beyond a proposal by would-be hybrid mobile operator LightSquared that may be doomed by broad opposition.

• Obama's H-1B answer in forum may haunt him

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 09 February, 2012 09:06

  WASHINGTON -- Until President Barack Obama responded to a question about H-1B visas during an online forum last week, the administration had said little about the controversial program.

• EU to stengthen its cybersecurity watchdog

  By Jennifer Baker | 09 February, 2012 03:22

  A push by European authorities to strengthen the European Union's cybersecurity watchdog has been given a green light by parliamentarians.

• LightSquared asks FCC to regulate GPS receivers

  By Stephen Lawson | 08 February, 2012 10:13

  LightSquared wants the U.S. FCC to set standards for commercial GPS devices to prevent what LightSquared calls interference with other wireless services.

• Not-for-profit - Part 3

  By Tim Mendham | 20 April, 2011 15:37

  How are relations between not-for-profit with IT vendors?

• NSW kicks off data centre reform - Part 2

  By Rodney Gedda | 04 April, 2011 13:04

  Communities NSW CIO, David Kennedy, said he supports the data centre reform project and can see the value of data centre consolidation and rationalisation leading to improved capability and value for money.

• NSW kicks off data centre reform - Part 1

  By Rodney Gedda | 04 April, 2011 12:57

  After years of planning, and months of supplier selection, the NSW government Department of Services, Technology and Administration (DSTA) has called for proposals for its data centre reform program, which will consolidate some 100 disparate facilities into two. The five shortlisted suppliers had until the end of January to put forward their ideas and capabilities for the shared data centres — either existing or purpose-built facilities — for government agencies across the state.

• Don't mess with Texas: Lessons from IT outsourcing disasters

  By Stephanie Overby | 05 August, 2010 05:04

  Two weeks ago, the CIO of Texas penned a seven-page letter outlining the chronic failures of the state's nearly four-year outsourcing relationship - a deal the Texas governor had briefly suspended in 2008 citing service delivery problems that he said put the state's agencies in danger.

• ACMA's Business Transformation Journey

  By Rodney Gedda | 01 April, 2010 13:51

  Trashing a truck-load of old equipment and physically cleaning up rooms may not be indicative of the average IT transformation project, but the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) took a ground-up approach to modernising its business processes.

Whitepapers about government

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  A Roadmap to the Virtual Data Centre: Accelerate Your Journey to the Government Cloud

  A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR GOVERNMENT IT - Operate more efficiently. That’s the order of the day for government organisations, but obstacles are everywhere. These include soiled information, outdated IT processes, and distributed IT budgets and staff—with little consistency in how information is managed across numerous agencies and systems. Storage is growing at more than 30 percent annually. Utilisation rates are under 50 percent. Power and cooling costs account for 25 percent of the budget. Human errors cause network downtime, and new applications take two to six months to deploy. At least that was the case up until recently. Now we have the cloud.

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  Cloud Storage Solutions for Government

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  Charting Your Course for Government Transformation

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  NZ Government selects HP as panel print supplier for All-of-Government contract