• How to avoid the perils of virtualization and Cloud stall

  By Thor Olavsrud | 11 April, 2012 01:58

  Technologies like virtualization and cloud computing promise enormous leaps in efficiency and flexibility, but they can lead organizations into a quagmire if they don't plan properly for the transition, says Bill Hurley, CIO, CTO and executive vice president of Westcon Group. Without proper planning, organizations can stall in the midst of their transitions to virtualized environments or the cloud, finding themselves with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward.

• Can your apps handle an 1800 percent spike in traffic?

  By Thor Olavsrud | 17 March, 2012 09:00

  As Super Bowl XLVI approached this year, Cars.com was facing a thorny issue. For the third year in a row it was running a big-budget ad during the game. In 2010 and 2011 the high-profile ads drew huge numbers of car shoppers to its site--a definite win--but the spike also slowed performance to a crawl.

• Telstra picks up five Frost & Sullivan excellence awards

  By Hamish Barwick | 28 October, 2011 11:06

  Telco provider, Telstra, was one of the main winners of analyst firm Frost & Sullivan’s sixth annual excellence awards held in Sydney during October.

• Empired extends $14m contract with Main Roads WA

  By Hamish Barwick | 26 October, 2011 13:35

  Perth-based IT services company, Empired (ASX: EPD), has extended its three-year $14 million infrastructure and project services contract with roading contractor, Main Roads Western Australia, for a further two years.

• CIO Summit Roundtable: Application specific SLAs for the enterprise

  By Georgina Swan | 12 October, 2011 11:06

  Some enterprises have centralised, moved consolidated global ICT assets without giving much thought to the performance of their business applications. While consolidation can help to lower costs, users can have very different experiences for accessing data and applications based on the physical distance to the data centre, where latency may be an issue.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 2

  By David Braue | 03 May, 2011 10:29

  Smart meters have a way to go. The recent 2010 Australian Smart Grid Study, a survey of 13 Australian utilities by sector consultancy Logica, showed an average self-reported maturity rating of just 2.14 on a scale of 1 to 5, and communications networks to support them rated 2.80.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 1

  By David Braue | 02 May, 2011 11:28

  Like any entrepreneur, Andrew Dyer is excited about the possibilities for his clean-energy venture, BrightSource Energy. The company, of which he is a director, is this year partnering with energy giant Chevron to cover 1000 acres of the US desert with 4000 mirrors that reflect sunlight onto three boilers mounted atop each of three 100 metre towers.

• CIOs take new look at sharing IT infrastructure, apps

  By Thomas Hoffman | 28 August, 2009 09:16

  The world's top hotel companies have collectively invested tens of millions of dollars to implement their own customized reservation systems--considered the heart of their operations. Each hotelier views the capabilities of these systems as providing them with some competitive advantage over how they calculate rates and room availability.

Whitepapers about infrastructure

• 

  TestPro achieves visibility over software defect management - Reducing project risk and improving quality

  In delivering specialised software testing products and services, TestPro aims to add value to its clients by assisting them to deliver software projects at a higher quality with less risk. It saw significant opportunity to reduce effort and resources during the product development life cycle.TestPro uses IBM Rational Team Concert software to help achieve greater visibility and reduce effort involved in managing product builds and defects during application development, maintenance and enhancement projects. Read more.

• 

  Ensuring successful Agile-at-scale software delivery

• 

  Rapid achievement of employee productivity gains in a modern workforce

• 

  HP and Closed Circuit Print Security Podcast featuring Quorcirca