Australia hurt by insular IT mentality
Australia needs to wake up from its "cul-de-sac" mentality and recognise the significance of information to the long-term profitability of the country's enterprises, according to a security executive.
Australia needs to wake up from its "cul-de-sac" mentality and recognise the significance of information to the long-term profitability of the country's enterprises, according to a security executive.
Conflicting terminology and confusion over business-critical applications have spawned an environment of mistrust and doubt that's impeding IT shops.
Australian telecommunications carrier Request Broadband has released an alternative to leased-line virtual private networks (VPNs) and Internet protocol VPNs (IP VPNs).
When IBM started in Australia in 1932, it had 10 employees, £20,000 in the bank and sold scales and time recording equipment. Now, 70 years later, it employs about 10,000 people and has annual revenues of $3.3 billion.
E-business has been put on the backburner yet again in favour of spending on corporate IT infrastructure, according to a Forrester analyst.
Vendors vying for Federal Government outsourcing contracts are operating in an "acute" competitive space, forcing them to deliver "minimum" customer expectations.
Standards Australia is developing new national guidelines for IT governance and project management because current standards are costing the industry billions of dollars a year.
Unlike overseas counterparts, Australian telecommunication operators are taking a wait-and-see approach to public access wireless LAN (WLAN) networks.
Vodafone Australia and Vodafone New Zealand have outsourced their IT operations to Hewlett-Packard Australia.
Lessons about the after-effects on IT systems from September 11 have apparently failed to resonate with about half of Australia's companies, which still have no disaster recovery plans in place.
Despite much singing and dancing about Web services overseas, Australia is yet to catch on to the latest IT "solve-all".
In what is becoming a common occurrence among carriers Vodafone Australia has outsourced its handset distribution.
Even though the "dogs are baying" that Australia is behind in the broadband race, the Federal Government believes the nation's position in the "single lap" race is irrelevant.
Mobile-connected personal digital assistants (PDAs) got the thumbs up within the enterprise today from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
After many years delay and $20 million spent on integration, a national register of written-off vehicles (WOVR) is finally set to go live in April to tackle a burgeoning vehicle rebirthing racket, estimated to be worth some $7 million a month.