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SOA grows up -- and out

Not too long ago, IT organizations turned to service-oriented architecture (SOA) primarily as a way to integrate enterprise applications. But now large companies are using SOA to create components that can be combined and reused as services across multiple applications.

By John S. Webster | 12 January, 2010 05:57

Tags: service-oriented architecture, soa

NSW Office of State Revenue CIO reflects on five successful years of open source

NSW Office of State Revenue CIO David Kennedy looks back on the challenges and achievements the government agency has had with open source technology and offers advice to CIOs on developing a successful open source strategy.

By Rodney Gedda | 01 October, 2009 08:28

Tags: CIOs, government, NSW Office of State Revenue, open source

CIOs highlight BI, virtualisation and cloud computing as key to competitiveness

An IBM survey of 2500 international and 129 local CIOs suggests business intelligence and centralisation of IT systems through virtualisation and cloud computing will be crucial to remaining competitive in the coming months.

By Rodney Gedda | 15 September, 2009 10:57

Tags: business intelligence, CIOs, cloud computing, IBM, surveys, virtualisation

Data recovery needn't be your dirty little secret

Enterprises don't like to discuss how often backups fail to take place, restorations prove unsuccessful and damaged media ships out for data recovery.

By Jennifer Kavur | 12 March, 2009 09:16

Tags: data recovery, data storage

New strategies for new disasters

Here's a tricky question: Could your company operate during a flu pandemic?