Industry Insider

  • Lockheed Martin appoints new Australia & Asia MD

    Global technology company Lockheed Martin has appointed a new vice president & managing director to lead its technology business in Australia and Asia. Christine Zeitz will serve as regional lead of the company’s Information Systems and Global Solutions (IS&GS) business, which provides information and communications technology solutions to customers in the public, security and defence sectors.

  • Ten Things You Need to Know About Windows 10

    Windows 10 fundamentally changes how PCs and other devices will be used and supported in enterprises. These are the key items that CIOs and senior IT managers need to know about the OS.

  • Enterprise collaboration cannot subsist of messaging alone

    In this digital age, instant messaging has essentially become a way of life. From the good ole days of AOL Messenger to modern means of texting, Slack, What’s App, Yammer, Jive and Skype, the options and opportunities for instant messaging are endless.

  • 7 tips for managing files on file servers as records

    I am not here to tell you to leave all of your information on (file shares in) file servers, however we have learned after working with many customers needing Records and Information Management solutions that sometimes it’s just better to leave your files in place. At least for a while. Placing record retention policies on files (on your file servers) is very feasible if you stay within reasonable bounds.

  • Veritas maps out independent future

    The Veritas Information  Map, a new tool to enable businesses to delve deep into their data stores to recognise and prioritise information across their organisations, is one of a number of releases being delivered over coming months as Veritas completes full operational separation from Symantec, due by October 2015.

  • IBM expands cloud data dervices

    IBM has announced the acquisition of Compose, Inc., a privately held US company that provides MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and other database as a service (DBaaS) offerings targeted at web and mobile app developers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

  • 13 Reasons to Classify Across the Enterprise

    When you go swimming, do you creep in slowly or jump right in? I’ve tried both and have decided that jumping in is by far the better way. A few seconds of shock at the temperature change and then I’m swimming happily. Why endure slow temperature change torture when the whole body adjusts quickly?

  • Is File Sharing Killing Enterprise Governance?

    Content, data, information – no matter what your terminology, it’s everywhere and being created by everyone in your organisation. No surprise; that information is not always properly governed by the people creating the content – much less by the organisation itself.