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  • Pictures paint a thousand words

    For a company that markets itself off an extensive image library, getting access and simplicity right is essential for customer communications. Tait Electronics worked with DataBasics to learn and effectively utilise the extensive features ...

  • Games Workshop goes on the asset hunt

    Games Workshop ran into problems with its fixed asset management system where a serious business risk can skew everything from inventory control to stock exchange results.

  • An Antarctic Odyssey in weather forecasting

    Crossing a number of different horizons, the Tasmanian Partnership for Advance Computing has opened up a distributed data reservoir suitable not only for weather forecasting in the ocean, but a new look at the evidence of Climate Change.

  • S3 Outage Illustrates Outsourcing Risks

    One of the perils of online data storage and the outsourcing of critical business functions in general was highlighted late last week when online retailer Amazon.com’s data storage service went down for a number of hours.

  • Big Blue’s Cloud Computing Almost Here

    After unveiling its plans late last year, IBM has introduced its new ready-to-use Blue Cloud computing offerings, enabling corporate data centres to function in a similar fashion to the internet.

  • IT Governance Remains Problematic

    According to a new survey of 749 CEO and CIO-level executives around the world, insufficient IT staff availability, service delivery issues and difficulty proving the value of IT remain serious problems despite the increasing importance of...

  • HD DvD’s Star is Fading, But who really wins?

    The most poorly guarded secret in the optical storage world this week has been the news that Toshiba are expected to pull out of the format dogfight with Sony’s rival Blu-Ray technology after a series of devastating blows.

  • AIIA Welcomes ICT Education Council

    The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has welcomed the creation of the Council of Deans of ICT Education, believing it to be an invaluable boost for ICT skills in the industry.