BMC Software claims the configuration management database (CMDB) is the next big thing, even the current big thing, in managing today's increasingly complex IT environment. And it's giving it away - in a manner of speaking. BMC's Atrium is available free of charge to users of the company's service level management and incident management (helpdesk) tools.
The air in any central business district nowadays is thick with wireless signals and "wardriving" expeditions prove that a discouraging proportion of them are still unencrypted, says Nick von Dadleszen of Security-Assessment.com.
IAG New Zealand's Endeavour insurance system, which was to have handled the needs of customers of both the State Insurance and NZI brands, has finally been abandoned.
A bill likely to be introduced to New Zealand's Parliament early next year will clarify the legal status of evidence of an offense gained by hacking, as well as other evidence collected through illegal acts.
Linux is "going to become more and more important for the enterprise", says BMC Software worldwide chief Bob Beauchamp. His company now rates Red Hat a "tier one" operating system, meaning that it considers it obligatory to provide the latest versions of all its products for the platform.
New Zealand-based RFID specialists Sandtracker are on a roll with several new clients with specialized applications using its RFID technology.
New Zealand e-government has arrived at the first of its self-imposed milestones, and reckons it's not doing at all badly. There are still, however, weaknesses in seamless collaboration among agencies, and a disappointingly low number of Internet users are using it to access government information and services.
Exaggeration, fears, gradual acceptance, trust and deal-making were identified as among the dynamics of a relationship between sacrifice of privacy and gaining technologically-assisted benefits, at an energetic panel session at last week's biometrics conference in Wellington.
Australia's federal government may look at adware and spyware as a follow-up to its legislative actions against spam. On the other hand, some caution should be attached to "promises" in the run-up to an election -- the event currently dominating all Australian news.
Who's to blame for the hold that spam, spyware and viruses have on the Internet?
Integrating measurement of the complexity of software and performance of developers into the development lifecycle can have significant benefits in reducing risk, according to development metrics expert Ewa Wasylkowski.
A small landmark for “e-government” processes has been clocked up with the first online registration of a death in New Zealand.
The classic graphical user interface was well suited to an early Macintosh with 128kB of RAM that ran a few applications and about 50 files, “but it doesn’t scale”, says usability design specialist Don Norman.
With an anti-spam law only two months old, Australia has claimed to be responsible for only a seventh of the amount of unsolicited email emanating from New Zealand.
Up to a quarter of households will be demanding 10Mbit/s by the end of the decade says a new forecast.