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Business Data Management Portals Australia

Business data management: Research, insight and best practice from Australia's largest network of ICT experts.

Virtualisation: Pre-Empting The Pitfalls

By Tim Stammers
Best Practice

Server virtualisation has many benefits, which is why it is being taken up so quickly. But the v-word carries downsides that can wipe out all of its advantages and cause a reduction of IT service levels.

Data Centre Portal

Hot Aisle versus Cold Aisle Containment

By John Niemann
Whitepaper

Both hot and cold air containment can significantly improve the predictability and efficiency of data centre cooling systems. While both approaches eliminate the mixing of hot and cold air, there are practical differences in implementation that have significant consequences. This paper examines both methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.

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Virtualization Portal

Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure through Virtualization

By IBM
Whitepaper

The dynamic infrastructure: Solving today's problems while seizing tomorrow's opportunities

For organizations today, achieving optimal business results demands a bold new approach to IT.

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Service Management & BPM Portal

IT Service Management

End-to-end Systems Management and Reporting

By NetIQ
Video

Would you like end-to-end monitoring of your heterogeneous environment? Can you provide timely reporting and analytics to those that need it? NetIQ's AppManager Suite delivers comprehensive systems management, including monitoring, reporting & analysis, diagnostics and resolution.

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Information Management Portal

Next G Business Applications: game on IBM and Oracle, and so long HP

By Sam Higgins
Insight

When Larry Ellison throws down the gauntlet of transaction processing benchmarks and offers to pay "any company $10 million if [their] Oracle database application doesn't run at least twice as fast on SUN hardware as on IBM's fastest computer", there is no doubt that a rivalry exists between the Red Army of Redwood City and the Blue Suits of Armonk.

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IT Security & Risk Portal

The Risks Borne By One Are Shared By All: Website Compromises

By MacLeonard Starkey
Insight

Having your company web site hacked or 'compromised' can be a costly experience for your organisation. There are immediate costs in responding to the compromise itself (and this includes the actual cost of recovery, as well as the loss of revenue during the outage), but the greater damage to your business may only become apparent over time – customers ceded to a competitor as a result of the loss of trust in your service may never return.

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Cloud Computing Portal

Will SaaS and Cloud Kill the Appliance Market in Australia?

By Peter Carr
Insight

In a period of intense application renewal the traditional suppliers of hardware appliances are being forced to re-evaluate strategies for growth. On the one hand mega technology vendors such as IBM, Oracle, and HP are consolidating solutions across all aspects of information, applications and technology stacks.

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eHealth Portal

eHealth Australia, A CIO Round Table

By Melissa Martin
Insight

Strategic Path invites four health experts to share their insight into a roundtable on the issue of e-health in Australia today. We welcome Bruce Winzar - Executive Director Information Services & CIO, Bendigo Health; Gary Oldman - IT & Communications Manager, Royal Flying Doctor Service and Melanie Kneale, CTO, NIB Health to this e-health conversation.

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