The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has set a deadline of December 31, 2012 for all Commonwealth agencies to have their customer-facing systems, applications and internet gateways IPv6 compliant.
A senior Internet Society (ISOC) contributor has warned of dire consequences including gradual degradation of the free and open internet that we enjoy today if the world does not start deploying and transitioning to IPv6 as a priority.
Australia is in pole position to play a leading role in the broad adoption of the IPv6 internet according to an international expert on the 132 bits-based IP standard that has been touted as the answer to IPv4 address exhaustion challenges.
Having begun its rollout of IPv6 services for enterprise, government and wholesale customers via its internet backbone that is now fully dual stacked, Telstra will still only commit to its broader Bigpond and NextG mobile access networks being compliant with the latest standard “over time”.
Most mature organizations now recognize that best practice IT service management has the potential to deliver significant business benefits. Attaining operational efficiencies, cost savings and alignment of technology to business objectives, however, involves much more than just an off-the-shelf solution and some consulting services. At the core of any successful IT service management strategy is cultural change across the entire organization. Gerard Norsa reports
Champagne corks are popping at Melbourne PC assembler, Paragon Systems, after it secured the guaranteed component of a Victorian Government tender to supply 4150 PCs between February and June 2004.
Fledgling software developer, Exinda Networks, has been given a boost after winning a Federal Government grant to develop and market its Internet optimisation technology for national and international distribution.
Probably the largest Victorian Government IT tender of the year - a spend of about $35 million by the Department of Education and Training (DE&T) - is looking like being a big win for Intel and its OEM channel.
A consortium of Victorian businesses supplying services and technology based on free and open source software are looking to further push the cause of open computing within government agencies and corporate enterprises.
Integrator, Dimension Data, continues to find good opportunities in the security space and recently completed an enterprise-wide Internet management (EIM) addendum to Melbourne Airport's solution.
The process of making redundant between 10 and 15 per cent of the post-merger HP's approximately 4,000 staff has begun under a "managed selection" process.
Australian Web content management vendor Presence Online is gearing up to pitch to the big boys of multinational business after securing a formal global agreement with IBM.
Hewlett-Packard Australasia's managing director, Norman McCann, died suddenly Tuesday after suffering a heart attack.
Hewlett-Packard Australasia's managing director, Norman McCann, died suddenly Tuesday after suffering a heart attack.
While he may well now be able to see the roses, Ron Harris, managing director of Coles Myer-owned Harris Technology has a lot of work to do before he actually stops to smell them in June next year.