Project Management / News

Telstra, Catholic schools build $146m broadband network

More than 1550 Catholic schools and Catholic education offices around Australia will be connected to Telstra’s network infrastructure following a two-year, $146 million broadband project announced today.

Written by Rodney Gedda13 July 09 14:05

Intel is working with Google on Chrome OS

The world's largest chip maker is working with Google on the Chrome operating system and has been privy to the project for some time, a spokesman for the company said Friday.

Written by Dan Nystedt13 July 09 05:11

Good master data management needs a focus on data

To engineers at oil and gas exploration and development company Nexen Inc., having access to information means being able to think in terms of concrete data and not barrels of gas.

Written by Kathleen Lau03 July 09 08:48

Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities

Three years ago, Carnegie Mellon University opened the Data Center Observatory – an answer to the ever-rising operational costs in IT. Administrative expenses were spiraling out of control because individual research groups within the university were running their own IT infrastructure, characterized by short periods of heavy use followed by many hours sitting idle and wasting energy.

Written by Jon Brodkin30 June 09 08:44

Microsoft to open two new data centers

After postponing the development of one data center and losing a couple of high-level managers in its data center group, Microsoft said it will soon open new facilities in Dublin, Ireland, and Chicago.

Written by Nancy Gohring30 June 09 07:12

iPhone not enterprise ready: Gartner

Is the iPhone 3GS ready for enterprise? The answer is a qualified no, according to Gartner analyst Robin Simpson.

Written by Joshua Gliddon26 June 09 16:04

Economy forces IT to cope with dumped products

Gregg Davis, CIO at Webcor Builders Inc., became concerned last fall when Oracle Corp. bought Primavera Systems Inc., because Webcor was a heavy user of Primavera's SureTrak construction scheduling software.

Written by Eric Lai16 June 09 08:21

Android an alternative to Windows in netbooks, says Gartner

Google's Android mobile phone software worked well on mini-laptops at the Computex Taipei 2009 electronics show and, backed by the strong Google brand, may be headed for prime time, two Gartner analysts said Monday.

Written by Dan Nystedt16 June 09 04:04

Compuware taking 'agile' approach to Changepoint

Compuware on Monday announced a 12-month road map for its Changepoint IT portfolio and project management software that will include a number of enhancements throughout the year, as well as a major release in 2010.

Written by Chris Kanaracus16 June 09 03:20

Telstra pumps $1.2b into IT outsourcing

Telstra has poured $1.2 billion to renew its technology support and services contracts with IBM and Electronic Data Systems to 2014.

Written by Darren Pauli09 June 09 09:55

Red Hat offers customizable app servers

Red Hat Monday introduced an open source application server strategy called JBoss Open Choice and a trio of upgraded middleware platforms that adhere to an architecture that is customized using components.

Written by John Fontana02 June 09 07:20

Adobe aids Flash apps developers

Tending to its bread-and-butter Flash technology, Adobe Systems will offer on Monday previews of rebranded version of its rich Internet application tools platform as well as a new tool for building user interfaces without coding.

Written by Paul Krill01 June 09 14:19

SaaS not fine enough for wool researcher

Implementing an enterprise content management system to facilitate the consolidation of 20 Web sites is stretching the limits of today' software-as-a-service offerings, according to Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), which went down the path of a more traditional, in-house application.

Written by Rodney Gedda01 June 09 14:37

Busted: the NSW Police crime fighting toolkit

NSW Police will have access to a new forensic information database within nine months along with a suite of centralised records management and field imaging systems.

Written by Darren Pauli02 June 09 07:50

Google's Wave consolidates core online features in one tool

Google released to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management and document sharing.

Written by Juan Carlos Perez29 May 09 04:38

Epicor ERP project sparks customer lawsuit

A stone-and-tile company is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor over a system it says never worked as intended or promised, according to documents filed last month in U.S. District Court in Connecticut.

Written by Chris Kanaracus19 May 09 04:23

In tight times, IT managers more likely to postpone than cancel a project

IT managers have canceled outright fewer client computing projects during the recession than expected, preferring instead to postpone or scale them back, according to a Gartner Inc. survey of 475 IT administrators at large companies in nine countries.

Written by Matt Hamblen15 May 09 02:30
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