Travel Tech Q and A: Gartner's Warren Anderson
Gartner group vice president of Asia Pacific Warren Anderson is not only active in the IT industry in Australia, but also competes internationally in triathlons, so he needs to travel, and often. Here are his travel tips.
Warren Anderson
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Facebook IPO goes off without a bang
One of the most celebrated IPOs in history, which raised US$16 billion dollars, ended the day below where it started. At Facebook, it's back to business.
After Zuckerberg rang the bell
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After an all-night 'hackathon' at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the ceremonial Nasdaq bell from his home turf and the trading started more
Automation key for time-poor security boffins
The way in which IT departments have been approaching information security is flawed, according to Juniper Networks senior director and security architect Christopher Hoff, who said that security departments need to adopt automation to free up their time to think outside the box.
Christopher Hoff
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Speaking to ZDNet Australia, and presenting at AusCERT 2012 earlier this week, Hoff said that security experts tend to only set up reactive plans on how they think systems might break, without taking into account the unpredictable ways in which complex systems of today actually do fail more
Lightning round!
What's an IPO and why is Facebook doing it? How's this year's AusCERT? Where's our slice of Raspberry Pi? And where are Josh and Michael?
On this week's Piccolo-sized Technolatte:
Facebook launches its IPO
What's happening at AusCERT 2012
How many Raspberry Pi computers are there in Australia?
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Vic scraps HealthSMART system
The Victorian Government has made the decision to scrap its HealthSMART system, which was years overdue and had run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget.
HealthSMART was launched in 2003 and had been designed to run as a single electronic foundation for the state's public health service. The single platform would combine a finance system, as well as patient-management and clinical-applications services more
US, Australia team up on cybersecurity
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon today said that the US and Australia have agreed on a statement of intent to increase collaboration on cybersecurity.
"The new and emerging challenges of a digital economy were the subject of recent talks in Canberra between myself and secretary [of the US Department of Homeland Security, Janet] Napolitano more