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• Deakin Uni takes course in ‘green’ IT service management

  Deakin University in Victoria is expanding on its environmental sustainability program with an ‘eco’ IT service management (ITSM) project to embed further improvements into business processes.

• How to pick the best licensing model

  My clients often find themselves frustrated with the default model offered in IT suppliers’ standard terms and conditions for software licensing. Taking some time to select the model that is best suited to your organisation when you negotiate the contract can pay dividends when your circumstances change and you want to adjust your usage of the software.

• How project managers can help their companies 'go green'

  Today’s society is prevalent with organisational and social campaigns to “go green”. This is for good reason. It is, after all, our social responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint, to reduce our dependency on non-renewable energies, and to recycle – not to mention the potential financial benefits associated with going green and green products. There are many things that Program and Project Managers of all industries can take to contribute to this worthy cause as part of following good program and project management processes and practices, but what are the “big ticket items”?

• Information assurance in 2010 and beyond

  Information assurance provides certainty that information is reliable, secure, private and confidential, yet available for the business. It encompasses disciplines of information security, information management, risk management, business continuity management and the retention and effective use of employee knowledge. Robustly implemented, information assurance ensures accuracy and protection of information.

• iPad enterprise invasion and security risks

  IT organisations have come to a stunning realisation: There is no stopping the great iPad enterprise invasion. Risks abound as companies must deal with securing iPad apps without much help from Apple, says Julie Palen, senior VP of mobile device management at Tangoe, a telecom expense management software and services provider.

• The unspoken additional constraint of project management

  Whether you are a novice just embarking upon your career in project management or a seasoned veteran, you are most likely familiar with the project management concept of the “triple constraint”. The triple constraint of quality, time and cost is perhaps as well recognised within project management as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is recognised by practitioners of psychology. Nowadays, three extra constraining factors of managing risk, resources, and quality are often added to the “original triple”, making a total of six factors (or constraints) of project management.

• Program & project manager power – What are your most important traits to achieve success

  In project and program management, just as in other professions, a great leader needs to have a mix of attributes.

• CIOs at the barracks slideshow

  All the action from the CIO event, sponsored by HP

• In pictures: CIO networking evening

  Photos from the Sydney networking night

• Networking night with Australia's top CIOs

  Photos from the networking evening with Australia's top CIOs, George Negus and HP.

• CIO networking evening in pictures

  Nearly 70 Australian CIOs gather for the year's premier networking event with HP

• Why does IT have little influence in a company

  A while back, I read a survey that showed that, other than directors of human resources, CIOs were considered the least influential senior executives in most organisations.

• Gartner sees 'context-based computing' on the horizon

  Being a CIO -- or working for one -- no longer means just keeping a data center and network running. Now the CIO and the IT division must become "entrepreneurial" to drum up new customers for the business and learn how to deploy cutting-edge technologies such as "context-based computing" -- or risk becoming irrelevant.

• How private cloud shakes up traditional IT roles

  Rather than a traditional datacenter, the private cloud uses highly virtualized pools of compute, storage and network capabilities to optimize IT performance and utilization while providing the business with services that improve efficiency and agility. This offers organizations a way to circumvent the increasing complexity, inflexibility and cost of IT environments to be more competitive in the market place through greater efficiency, control, choice, quality of service and, most importantly, business agility. We need to spend more of our budgets on building new value and assets rather than spending precious dollars on, "keeping the lights on." Introducing the cloud!

• HP opens attack on Cisco certifications

  HP this week unveiled a training and certification program for IT personnel converging enterprise infrastructure and rearchitecting data centers.