CIO drives IP telephony in health care group
CEOs of 11 independent health care groups in a Victorian hospital co-operative agreed to give up traditional PABX telephony at the behest of an enterprising CIO.
Stories by Siobhan Chapman
System administrators boost skills development
System administrators lapped up information on security, documentation and risk analysis at the 10th annual SAGE-AU conference in Melbourne last week.
TechEd: Security and integration hot topics for developers
Security and integration are the biggest concerns for IT professionals in the face of digital terrorism, according to Microsoft at this year's TechEd 2002, the annual conference for Microsoft IT developers.
Internet's busted boom is poised for build cycle
Despite being in the middle of a recession in the aftermath of the dotcom bubble bursting, the best of the Internet revolution is still to come.
ATO faces paper war
Accountant bodies have given the Australian Taxation Office a 10-week ultimatum to dramatically improve its poor online services or drown in a flood of paper in the form of manually-lodged tax returns.
Medicare numbers debatable identifiers in medical database scheme
Two years into legislative development there has been no resolution to the debate on the use of Medicare numbers as an identifier in the Federal Government's HealthConnect scheme.
Sell 'fear' factor to get disaster recovery funds
Disaster recovery planning is like insurance - you buy it hoping you'll never need it - so IT executives can best sell it to the board of directors using the approach that sells insurance: fear and emotion.
Student records scam shows up systems flaw
Sabotage of student records at a Sydney university exposed serious weaknesses in NSW public universities' computer systems, an independent commission has found.
Case Study: Superannuation firm gets super SAN
Faced with disparate systems, a heterogenous server environment and storage islands at a time when the company was undergoing a period of expansion, superannuation and investment firm AM Corporation had its hands full managing storage.
IT shops score chaos rating on maturity scale
IT managers' greatest impediment is that they fail to express the importance of the IT shops to the CFO, according to project management consultants.
Security takes hold in boardrooms
Now that security is the legal responsibility of boardroom directors it is a whole new ball game for IT.
Silence surrounds SCM projects to protect innocent - or guilty
Whether a supply chain management project succeeds or fails, it seems you won't get to hear about it.
Sysadmin Appreciation Day barely nets a ripple
Throw out that flat champagne and the beer, clean the cake crumbs from the IT shop floor and get back to work, sysadmins, your 'day' is over.
Sun flares disrupts communications
System administrators can blame the heavens for outages as sunspot activity could wreak havoc with wireless and copper-based networks.
A CERTain STYLE
After nearly 30 years in the IT industry in a career spanning from teenage hacker innocently taking systems apart to trainer, seminar lecturer, published author and consultant, Les Bell decided to get a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), his first certification.