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(26 Mar 2012)
Like many government organisations, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has invested heavily in virtualisation platforms to consolidate its servers, speed provisioning times and take advantage of a far more flexible infrastructure. Unlike many organisations, however, the ABS recognised early on that doing so would require a significant...
(15 Nov 2011)
It may have taken some soul-searching and the protection of no less than the US White House to get away with it, but a cloud-computing infrastructure project run out of NASA’s AMES Research Centre in California has demonstrated how public-private sector partnerships — backed by hundreds of super-keen developers — can overcome...
(15 Nov 2011)
By necessity, governments are risk averse and slow to move to new trends. While technology can move quite quickly, some new trends are flash in the pan and disappear as quickly as they appear. Others sound like they’ll be the Next Big Thing but fade to obscurity. So when the federal government puts time and effort into developing guidelines...
This issue's Feature Story
(25 Mar 2011)
It’s the most visible edifice of government and a linchpin of our democracy. No wonder the Parliament House finds itself a constant target of attacks, both online and off. The underground carpark of Canberra’s Parliament House, which lies directly underneath the iconic water feature that’s ubiquitous on TV news broadcasts, is in disarray. Pedestrian barriers, construction residue, scaffolding and dust are everywhere as Stephen Campbell, half apologetically, escorts me past the metres-thick concrete and steel barriers...
Editor's Pick
(26 Mar 2012)
It may have only lasted 29 months, but Vivek Kundra’s stint as the first CIO of the United States fundamentally changed a project-management culture in which billions were being thrown away on projects with little order and no accountability. Ask Vivek Kundra when his mission to change the US government finally gained some steam, and he can pinpoint the moment: it came when his office posted a picture of US president Barack Obama looking at the new Federal IT Dashboard (www.itdashboard.gov) that, under Kundra’s mandate, had been established to name and shame departments that had let projects run over time and over budget....
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