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Stories by Rodney Gedda

  • NAB tries Telstra's remote access solution

    About 400 National Australia Bank (NAB) staff are participating in a trial of Telstra's new, multiple-network, single sign-on solution designed to reduce the access barrier for remote and off-site workers.

  • ACS president wants IT pros like plumbers

    Unlike builders, plumbers, electricians and other trades people, IT professionals can practice freely without any regulation or accreditation, a situation that, according to Australian Computer Society president-elect Philip Argy, is in need of change.

  • Big brother appliance sniffs out fraud

    Terms like firewall, IDS, and deep packet inspection may be indicative of today's network security landscape, but tomorrow's may also include 'big brother' style appliances that log all user activity in an attempt to counter internal threats.

  • IBM, CSC at edge over $5m Baycorp contract

    Looking to streamline operations and consolidate infrastructure, data management and analytics solutions provider Baycorp Advantage will oust either IBM or CSC as a tier-1 outsourcing partner on its upwards of $5 million a year services project.

  • IT, networks on Telstra's chopping block

    Telstra wasn't very open on how many ICT jobs would be lost as a result of its strategic review announced today, but CEO Sol Trujillo did indicate IT systems and networks would continue to be rationalized in order for it to remain competitive.

  • Users still starved of standards-based ID management

    Despite industry efforts to standardize identity management infrastructures, end user decisions are still clouded by products with interoperability issues. Hydrasight research director Michael Warrilow said vendors are not doing enough to ensure interoperability. Over recent years larger players have acquired smaller vendors to build out an identity 'stack' as part of a broader infrastructure.

  • Cisco's CSO talks IOS exploits, open source

    A recent spate of vulnerabilities discovered in Cisco's pervasive Internetwork Operating System (IOS) and the availability of its source code have not detracted from the company's mission to keep end users informed of security issues, according to CSO John Stewart.

  • WAN optimization continues growth

    Geographically distributed enterprises are warming to the idea of reducing data transfer times with dedicated appliances as another vendor, Riverbed Technology, enters the local market.

  • First IPv6 summit woos enterprise IT

    Australia's inaugural IPv6 summit in Canberra later this month will convey the message that next-generation networking technology is relevant to the wider enterprise and not just service providers and research organizations.

  • Sun's software chief eyes databases, groupware

    Having established its subscription-based software strategy for client and server infrastructure, Sun Microsystems is looking to extend the portfolio to take on the database and groupware markets, according to John Loiacono, executive vice president of software.

  • MPLS: coming to an enterprise near you?

    The idea of segregating network traffic within a local area network is widely practiced with virtual LANs, but extending that concept across remote sites may see carrier-domain multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) creep into the enterprise.