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• Coca-Cola Amatil turns Microsoft, won’t look back

  Some CIOs understandably treat the consumerisation of IT as a plague — a disease that must be stamped out, lest it subvert the standard operating environment they fought so hard to implement.

• Apple iCloud draws CIO concerns

  Last week, Apple unveiled its iCloud service to cheers at its WWDC in San Francisco. CIOs, though, weren't so thrilled. How will iCloud impact the enterprise? This question needs to be answered, hopefully before Apple launches iCloud this fall.

• One third of Aussie businesses lack customer service strategy: Study

  A new study has found that a third of Australian businesses do not have a customer service strategy in place.

• Check your Cloud SLAs: Longhaus

  Local chief information officers and IT managers would be wise to take a closer look at their service-level agreements with Cloud providers following the Amazon EC2 service outage in eastern United States over the weekend.
  

• Former CIO urges enterprises towards PCI compliance

  Australian banks may have been working through their own Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance issues, but that won’t stop them from fining business merchants from failing to meet the terms of the security initiative, according to an industry specialist.

• Games industry pitches "serious" games to enterprise

  The gaming industry is making a play for the enterprise, pitching interactive games to talent managers as serious tools for skill development.

• 10 signs you can bring an iPad to work

  Can you bring your iPad to work? Or will you get in big trouble? With a nod to David Letterman's Top Ten list Signs You've Purchased a Bad iPhone, here are our signs that grease the wheels for iPads to roll into the enterprise.

• Do iPad 2, iOS 4.3 make enough gains for enterprise?

  Charles Edge, author of Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator's Guide and director of technology at IT consultancy 318, was talking to a CIO as Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2 today.

• Microsoft to CIOs: Before you go Google, ask questions

  The mounting pressure to move IT resources to the cloud has added a layer of complexity to the already complex job of a CIO.

• Cloud Computing in 2011: 3 Trends Changing Business Adoption

  The business benefits of a cloud computing model have been well stated. You cut costs by switching to more flexible on-demand IT resources that can better handle the ebb and flow technology needs at a company.

• Open source 'ready for the enterprise': Ovum

  Open source software has been found to be functionally sufficient across most organsations and its advancement enables IT managers to choose from a variety of options, according to Ovum.

• 2015 the year of IT consumerisation: Gartner

  IT managers can expect a 25 per cent decrease in the number of hours they spend working on IT services, as well as an increase in the number of staff using corporate applications on personal devices, according to Gartner.

• Windows 7 wanted at work: Consumer IT strikes again

  If you are happy with Windows 7 on your personal laptop, but grumble every time Windows XP boots up on your work computer, it may be time to tap your company's IT pro on the shoulder and ask for Windows 7. You might be surprised at the response you get.

• Emerging tech: Disaster-proof your mobile app before rollout

  So you've created an iPhone enterprise app, and your sales folks and executives are thrilled. They want more functionality, say, tapping into location-based services or-gulp!-using the camera to capture product images. A few people are requesting the app run on their brand new Droids. Now the CEO wants the app on his soon-to-be-available BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

• Who's afraid of the Office 2010 upgrade? 78% of enterprises

  What does corporate IT think of Office 2010?