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Silver Spring illuminates local governments about the IPv6 street light
Silver Spring Networks has joined a French developer to trial a citywide IPv6 network for controlling streetlights, parking meters, and other equipment.
[ + ]Oracle targets cloud sovereignty concerns with Australian data centre
Oracle has established an Australian data centre to tap into growing demand for cloud-computing solutions that preserve sovereignty by keeping data onshore.
[ + ]Surge in ICT demand belies govt jobs pessimism
A surge in demand for ICT professionals has been a bright spot in jobs forecasts for 2013 despite overall pessimism in government-sector hiring.
[ + ]Slow-and-steady approach will help stretched agencies go cloud: Ovum
Government organisations want to embrace cloud but are struggling to develop the ICT capabilities to make it happen, Ovum says, advocating slow and steady.
[ + ]Businesses call for greater government cyber security involvement
A council of major US companies has pushed the government for greater information-sharing legislation to improve public-private cyber security cooperation.
[ + ]Think short-term benefit for long-term cloud
Companies considering cloud computing must develop short-term business goals that dovetail with long-term cloud strategies to ensure business buy-in.
[ + ]Weigh internal cloud readiness before jumping: VMware
Government organisations considering a move to cloud computing must ensure their internal organisations are agile enough to capitalise on the new paradigm.
[ + ]Governments must get creative with data reuse: EMC
Crowd-sourcing offers a flood of new data for governments and citizens alike – but without a bit of creativity, realising its benefits may be elusive.
[ + ]Clear message essential for cloud transition: Nikoletatos
Organisations moving towards a cloud-computing infrastructure must ensure they have clear buy-in from business stakeholders that may not be ready to learn.
[ + ]Cloud efficiencies will drive government's cost-cutting goals: IDC
Government ICT spend will grow slowly through 2015, but net increase masks productivity benefits of cloud, mobility, big data, and social-media spending.
[ + ]AGIMO restructured as new government CIO, CTO appointed
The Australian government's peak ICT strategy organisation, AGIMO, will undergo a major reorganisation to refocus itself around whole-of-government policy.
[ + ]Efficiency pressures hasten government cloud reckoning: Telstra
The push towards cloud computing will drive government bodies to embrace the model, Telstra's head of enterprise and government business has predicted.
[ + ]RIM wins mobile reprieve with US Customs BlackBerry 10 trial
Research In Motion's make-or-break BlackBerry 10 operating system won a reprieve from US Customs, suggesting the new mobile platform is not dead just yet.
[ + ]Victorian ombudsman fires an ICT distress flare
Governments need good ICT more than ever to boost productivity – but reports into project management performance suggest they're letting themselves down.
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