Stories by Hamish Barwick

The NBN Co Corporate Plan will strengthen competition and bring new business opportunities, according to local telecommunications and ISP companies.

The Tasmanian Government is set to close one data centre and tender for a new facility as its current setup is over capacity.

A mixture of backup devices caused by a merger in March 2009 has led the Queensland Department of Community Safety to source new tape media.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CASA) has decided to widen the supplier net for its regulatory IT system expression of interest (EOI) tender. The agency's first attempt at securing a solution closed in September.

Taking over three hotels in June 2010 may well have been the key for the Pan Pacific Hotel Group to enter the Australian market, but the quick entree ended up turning into a meal for group's IT department.

Acquisition has brought growth benefits but added an IT headache for Australian private health provider Healthe Care.

Westpac CIO, Donna-Maree Vinci, has urged her counterparts to persist in implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA), even if the rewards aren't available immediately.

Getting on the social networking bandwagon was a long time coming for Woolworths Group (ASX:WOW), admits information security manager, Peter Cooper.

The Melbourne Family Court of Australia is undertaking a rip and replace of its midrange IBM pSeries database servers which support business systems including Family Law Casetrack, Federal Law Casetrack and Finance One.

ASX-listed business software provider TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE) has restructured its business as it sets its sights on winning Cloud business from overseas vendors such as SAP and Oracle.

A number of customer wins and sector specific software development has boosted TechnologyOne’s (ASX:TNE) full year results for the year ended 30 September.

A mapping application designed to improve road works in Victoria is set to go live next month.

A complex IT shop and lack of development opportunities led Ray White IT director, Ben White, to Google’s door a year ago.

Faced with disparate email and collaboration systems, Flight Centre CIO, Peter Wataman, made a fateful decision to attend a Google breakfast on Cloud computing one year ago.

During the Gartner Symposium 2010 in Sydney, a panel discussion was held to discuss how Australia Post and Leaseplan embarked on successful business transformations.