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• Resources CIOs in Australia

  By Matt Rodgers | 24 January, 2012 08:55

  In a fast growing sector, the bottom line is everything

• Managing relationships with vendors - Part 2

  By David Binning | 05 May, 2011 13:07

  According to Dr Tim O’Neill, co-founder and director of business intelligence specialists Avolution, probably the biggest mistake an organisation can make when dealing with suppliers is to outsource the systems architecture. “This is why there’s so many untold billions of dollars-worth of failed IT projects out there,” he says. “Outsourcing the architecture function is fraught with danger.” In order for projects to be successful organisations need to maintain a healthy degree of cynicism and effectively force vendors to earn trust.

• Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes

  By Ann Bednarz | 06 August, 2010 10:41

  IBM's new mainframe is on display at this week's SHARE conference in Boston, a testament to the relevancy of the big iron in today's enterprise IT environments. Amid the excitement over IBM's mainframe makeover, however, IT pros are concerned about the availability of skilled professionals who know how to run it.

• A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 05 August, 2010 05:59

  Kristine Harper and her father, Tom, both work on mainframe computers. BOSTON - Kristine Harper was about 12-years-old when her father took her to his office to take part of a "take your daughter to work day." Tom Harper said his daughter was less than enthusiastic about his profession that day.

• The quest for IT talent

  By Darren Horrigan | 07 June, 2010 09:25

  That noise you hear is the scrape of chairs being pushed back, laptops snapping shut and your ICT staff walking out the door. The war for talent is on again — if it ever stopped — and as with all wars, there will be victors, survivors and casualties. Identifying, retaining and developing talent never gets easier. There are only degrees of difficulty. What should you do to attract and groom good people? How can you make your IT organisation one that offers interesting roles and compelling career prospects? How can you avoid becoming collateral damage in the war?

• Life after IBM is all green for ISS co-founder Tom Noonan

  By Jon Brodkin | 29 April, 2010 00:49

  It was 2006, and Tom Noonan had it all. Internet Security Systems (ISS), the company he co-founded and led as CEO, was pulling in $US400 million in annual revenue and on the verge of being acquired by IBM for a whopping $US1.3 billion.

• IBM Aims to Bring Apple, Social Networking to the Enterprise

  By Tom Kaneshige | 12 February, 2010 01:30

  Big Blue wants a piece of high-flying Apple, as well as a slice of the social networking craze. As Macworld Expo gets underway in San Francisco today, IBM unveiled enterprise-class social software for the iPhone and Mac.

• New at Disney: It's a Data Center World After All

  By Robert Lemos | 08 February, 2010 03:08

  Visitors to Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando can walk around the world, stopping at pavilions that aim to give them a taste of other countries. Now, Disney and IBM hope to give visitors a unique look at the information technology that delivers the modern world's everyday necessities as well.

• Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 January, 2010 08:03

  Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

• IBM's 'The New Voice of the CIO' Reveals Innovative CIOs

  By Simone Levien | 14 October, 2009 06:11

  Survey Results show how CIOs are spending their time and what they're doing to maintain and increase competitive advantage.

• Vendor View: The CIO juggling act

  By Martin Stubbs-Race | 08 October, 2009 11:12

  The evolution of the influence of the CIO is leading to a juggling act; there are now three pairs of roles that a CIO must fulfil in order to drive business forward and continue to maintain operations.

• SLIDESHOW: CIO Blast from the Past -- 110 Years of IBM technology

  By CIO Staff | 17 September, 2009 12:02

  A visual tour of IBM technology from the original 1899 Moneyweight Scale to Roadrunner, the first system to break the petaflop barrier, and everything in between. How many of these systems have you used during your career in IT?

• CIOs highlight BI, virtualisation and cloud computing as key to competitiveness

  By Rodney Gedda | 15 September, 2009 10:57

  An IBM survey of 2500 international and 129 local CIOs suggests business intelligence and centralisation of IT systems through virtualisation and cloud computing will be crucial to remaining competitive in the coming months.

• IBM, Monash extend IT education partnership

  By Tim Lohman | 28 August, 2009 11:11

  IBM and Monash University have partnered on a new $1.2 million Future Leaders Scholarship program aimed at developing IT leaders versed in both technology and business.

• CIO and CSO should take a follow the money approach to security: IBM X-Force

  By Tim Lohman | 27 August, 2009 10:15

  CIOs and CSOs could do well to consider the monetisation cost and overall profitability of security risks when considering how to safe guard their organisations, according to the findings of a new report from IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force research and development team.