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Learning the downside of free education devices
Improving bandwidth is important to boosting education outcomes – but it can have unintended consequences, as the Catholic Education Office discovered.
[ + ]NBN, IBM drive Geraldton's tech vision
The NBN is at the forefront of a joint effort between IBM and the City of Geraldton to identity and exploit broadband opportunities for the regional WA city
[ + ]Despite cloud hype, most CIOs still doing IT inhouse
Actual adoption of cloud services remains low despite the media attention and hype they get, Ovum CIO survey has found – although that may soon change.
[ + ]Fremantle Ports gets analytics into ship shape
WA's Port of Fremantle is using advanced analytics and business intelligence capabilities to improve its visibility of shipping operations.
[ + ]Lessons from the shared services battleground
Winning internal support is never easy for shared services organisations (SSOs), but NZ Defence Force's SSO turned its early failures into success.
[ + ]Rewriting the rules for IT applications
A requirement for revisiting traditional models of IT development is forcing government agencies to consider new models for application development.
[ + ]Labor won’t stuff NBN pipeline as election poison pill: Conroy
Labor will not push NBN Co to sign extraordinary contracts to increase the NBN's longevity after a possible Coalition election win, Stephen Conroy told GTR.
[ + ]Five months from election, Coalition launches NBN alternative
Ensuring robust election-year debate over the the national broadband network (NBN), the federal Coalition has launched its alternative FttN policy.
[ + ]Townsville water trial a win for smart meters, smart cities
An IBM and Townsville City Council trial of smart meters promises improved water-network and water-usage statistics for residents and network managers.
[ + ]Bunbury’s private cloud push presages regional hosting role
After virtualising servers and desktops in a new data centre, WA's City of Bunbury is weighing opportunities to become a cloud provider to its neighbours.
[ + ]Regional IT execs anticipate APAC data centre expansion
Australian and Asia-Pacific organisations are rapidly expanding data centre investments even as consolidation packs more computing power into smaller spaces
[ + ]NBN service complexity changing training, outsourcing mix: survey
The spread of the National Broadband Network (NBN) is driving many government organisations to reconsider their training, insourcing and outsourcing mix.
[ + ]Vic ICT strategy drives telecoms procurement, Web revamp
Victoria's ICT strategy is bearing fruit as the state government revamps its telecommunications procurement and overhauls its main Web site after 10 years.
[ + ]Big data storage needs big storage data
Big data changes the economics of government storage strategies – but without modelling, costs can quickly blow out as scale and cloud storage kick in.
[ + ]Agencies struggling with open data transition: OAIC
Government agencies are struggling with technical and procedural change necessary to bring government open data initiatives to fruition, an OAIC survey says
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