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  In pictures: HP partners get together

• Good Technology signs distribution agreement with Express Data

  By Nermin Bajric | 29 May, 2012 16:06

  Distribution agreement to see Express Data establish Good presence and focus on enterprise

• iPad in the enterprise: IT must stay ahead of the curve

  By Tom Kaneshige | 02 May, 2012 02:50

  When the district sales managers of a luxury retailer logged into their corporate email accounts on shiny, new iPads for the first time, at the same time-cheers went up.

• Open source is driving business app development, survey finds

  By Katherine Noyes | 25 April, 2012 04:51

  Hardly a month goes by without some fresh evidence of the growing popularity of open source software, and perhaps one of the best examples in recent weeks has been Microsoft's creation of its new Open Technologies division.

• Varicent names Flanagan as Australian country manager

  By Hafizah Osman | 15 February, 2012 11:52

  Sales performance management (SPM) solution provider, Varicent Software, has appointed Keith Flanagan as its country manager for Australia.

• In focus: Mac attack - the big switch is on

  By Maria Korolov | 16 January, 2012 22:32

  Over the years, Apple has earned a less-than-stellar reputation among purchasers of enterprise desktops. Macs were seen as overpriced to begin with. And Apple didn't offer huge discounts for bulk purchases, like the PC makers. Plus, Macs didn't come with the ecosystem of integrated productivity and management apps that are taken for granted in the Windows world.

• Cisco sending enterprises to the Cloud

  By Jim Duffy | 13 January, 2012 08:27

  In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid Clouds, Cisco - in the coming months - will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.

• NEWS GALLERY: Polycom unveils new Sydney Solutions Centre

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 September, 2011 14:21

  Unified communications vendor, Polycom, has opened its new Solutions Centre in Sydney.

• Apple iCloud draws CIO concerns

  By Tom Kaneshige | 15 June, 2011 04:29

  Last week, Apple unveiled its iCloud service to cheers at its WWDC in San Francisco. CIOs, though, weren't so thrilled. How will iCloud impact the enterprise? This question needs to be answered, hopefully before Apple launches iCloud this fall.

• Q&A: Austereo CIO Ross Forgione

  By Lisa Banks | 09 September, 2010 09:53

  What does an average work day involve for you at Austereo? The average day at Austereo is an adventure. It's a combination of managing daily operational needs and activities and taking on the new challenges associated with an organisation that continually pushes itself and the traditional boundaries of our industry.

• iPad in the Enterprise: A videoconferencing dream machine?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 10 April, 2012 08:09

  Three IT workers with iPads gathered around a whiteboard in a conference room in Boston to figure out how to improve a long-standing technical service- and running into more questions than answers.

• BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on

  By Rosemary Hattersley | 15 February, 2011 06:01

  The BlackBerry PlayBook is nearing its final build with fully working tablets on public show at Mobile World Congress and one stand representative going so far as to refer to a PlayBook as "my own". All that's left, we're told, is battery optimisation - something that's actively being worked on.

• Can you manage an iPhone like a BlackBerry?

  By Doug Dineley | 23 June, 2009 20:33

  Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.

• The importance of browsers for business

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 27 May, 2009 15:53

  Organisations have traditionally devoted minimum attention to Web browsers on users’ PCs, but IT departments are finding they need to change that hands-off strategy.