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UXC merges IT businesses to form UXC Connect

IT infrastructure and services businesses UXC Connect, Integ and XSI Data Solutions have been merged by parent company UXC Limited and now fall under the UXC Connect brand from July 1.

By Rodney Gedda | 22 June, 2011 11:17

Tags: cloud computing, Cris Nicolli, Ian Poole, IT services, UXC, UXC Connect, UXC Limited

Telstra CIO seeks Agile skills for change program

The CIO of Telstra has taken the unusual step of personally writing a job ad. Patrick Eltridge wants to hire experienced Agile process coaches for a change program he sees as exciting and rewarding.

By Rodney Gedda | 30 May, 2011 15:38

Tags: careers, job ads, Patrick Eltridge, Telstra

NSW data centre reform project gets underway

Following the release of its short list of preferred suppliers back in July, the NSW government procurement office has now called for submissions from the candidates for its data centre reform project.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 November, 2010 12:00

Tags: data centres, Emmanuel Rodriguez, NSW Data Centre Reform, NSW Government, tenders

SOA is dead because of its success

SOA is no longer a buzzword because it is a concept that has received broad industry acceptance and has become built into software products and services, say a CIO and analyst.

By Rodney Gedda | 08 June, 2010 10:06

Tags: CIOs, Progress Software, soa, Springboard Research, standards

HealthSMART grows on virtual servers, apps

Victoria's whole-of-health ICT strategy, HealthSMART, has grown from eight to 1000 servers in four years as it gears up to provide application services to some 140,000 end-users across the state, including the occasional iPad-wielding clinician.

By Rodney Gedda | 01 June, 2010 13:43

Tags: Citrix, e-health, government, HealthSMART, victorian government, virtualisation, xen, xenapp, xenserver

Wesfarmers insurance modernises with private cloud

Retail giant Wesfarmers has deployed a Web-based consumer insurance application on a private cloud and is leveraging it to transform its legacy commercial insurance architecture.

By Rodney Gedda | 27 May, 2010 10:03

Tags: bpm, CEOs, insurance, kmart, Pegasystems, private cloud, Wesfarmers

Reduce SOA complexity with GIntegrator

A new open source project aims to be a lightweight and simple solution for enterprise application integration and SOA.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 May, 2010 13:17

Tags: GIntegrator, groovy, Java, open source, soa

Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA

At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.'s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that's been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years. According to industry experts, it was a pioneering system when first introduced, and it made the Omaha-based transportation giant one of the first companies in the world to make extensive use of online transaction processing technologies.

By Thomas Hoffman | 09 January, 2010 05:40

Tags: soa, mainframe

Informatica plugs MDM hole with Siperian buy

Informatica has purchased MDM (master data management) vendor Siperian for about US$130 million, strengthening its hand against larger rivals such as IBM and Oracle.

By Chris Kanaracus | 01 February, 2010 05:38

Tags: informatica, MDM, mergers and acquisitions

Informatica updates data integration platform

Informatica is launching version 9 of its data integration platform on Tuesday, a release that emphasizes improved data quality, business-IT collaboration and assembling information from both on- and off-premise sources.

By Chris Kanaracus | 11 November, 2009 07:05

Tags: informatica, integration

Unisys tames virtualisation for more innovation

Embracing virtualisation through an eight-year transformation journey at Unisys is paying off with 700 fewer servers and innovation up from 8 to 30 per cent of IT spending, according to one of the chief architects of the change, vice president of global services for systems and technology, Brian Ott.

By Rodney Gedda | 31 August, 2009 10:10

Tags: cloud computing, cto, unisys, virtualisation

Taxi! Cab company fire shows need for call centre disaster recovery

Melbourne’s taxi industry was rocked yesterday when a fire at Silver Top Taxi’s city headquarters struck down call centre and computer dispatch systems, leaving cab drivers stranded without job notifications.

By Rodney Gedda | 29 July, 2009 12:15

Tags: asterisk, business continuity, call centres, Digital Armour Corporation, disaster recovery, Melbourne, taxis, VoIP

Oconics scores Hansard overhaul contract

The Department of Parliamentary Services has awarded business software developer Oconics a $3.8 million contract to redevelop and support the federal Hansard system.

By Kathryn Edwards | 22 July, 2009 12:14

Tags: Department of Parliamentary Services, hansard, Oconics

Centrelink calls for more IT suppliers

The IT jobs market may be not be hot right now, but national welfare agency Centrelink is seeking more panel members to supply IT services across a range of fields and will consolidate two panel arrangements into one in the process.

By Rodney Gedda | 08 July, 2009 10:24

Tags: centrelink, federal government, government, it services industry

Credit checker halves server count with virtualisation

Financial services firm Veda Advantage has halved the number of x86 servers with a consolidation and virtualisation project.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 June, 2009 11:30

Tags: blade servers, data centre consolidation, dell, Server consolidation, Veda Advantage, virtualisation, VMware

HP wins $96m contract with agriculture dept

The HP-owned EDS has chalked up a five-year, $96 million outsourcing contract to manage the IT infrastructure of the federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

By Rodney Gedda | 21 May, 2009 09:42

Tags: eds, federal government, HP, outsourcing

Telstra IT transformation chief returns to US

Telstra has announced its senior vice president for IT transformation, Tom Lamming, will leave the company on June 30 to return to the US.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 May, 2009 12:55

Tags: business transformation, CIOs, sol trujillo, Telstra

Sydney girls school gets electronic roll call

Pymble Ladies' College, a girls secondary school in Sydney's north, has introduced an electronic classroom student roll call system to reduce administrative disruption for students.

By Rodney Gedda | 07 May, 2009 14:51

Tags: education, kiosks, schools

Woolworths adds BI solution to department stores

Retail giant Woolworths has implemented an enterprise data warehousing platform to improve efficiency and insight into its store operations.

By Rodney Gedda | 28 April, 2009 09:53

Tags: business intelligence, HP, neoview, woolworths

National Museum goes shopping for IT overhaul

The National Museum of Australia (NMA) will modernise its entire IT infrastructure and services delivery processes to meet existing and future e-business and content requirements.

By Rodney Gedda | 27 April, 2009 12:08

Tags: National Museum of Australia, outsourcing

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