Greater Dandenong City Council (GDCC) has utilised a recent rollout of asset management software to discover PCs it didn't know it had and confiscate inappropriate software installations.
Technology and standards are improving to guard copyright material online and manage its use. Companies will benefit from better control of files and more sales opportunities.
The digital revolution in media has made it far easier and less costly to manage media assets than ever before, yet companies such as CNN are only now beginning to realise their value and are starting to implement systems to leverage them.
Are time bombs threatening your infrastructure? Not the familiar threats of viruses waiting for a specific date to trigger their attacks, but hidden dangers posed by expiration dates on domain name registration, service contracts, and support agreements?
TAFE Queensland has signed a two year extension to its outsourcing deal with Unisys for infrastructure and desktop management support.
As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Here we expose just how wrong it can go and ask leading industry figures to light the way towards effective network management.
New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.
ZDNet Australia looks at software deployment packages designed to help you reduce network administration costs.
Enterprises that don't have processes in place for managing IT assets can find that infrastructure is completely undocumented, argues a visiting technologist.
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
Intel vPro promises to ease desktop management for IT managers but does it really stack up? We review Optima's first vPro machine to find out.
Intel today launched the vPro desktop platform in Australia and New Zealand, claiming the technology will reduce support costs, improve hardware security and make PCs easier to manage. However, newly found partner Apple has no plans to include vPro in its line of offerings.
If your company needs to manage a large collection of multimedia files, FotoWare's solution is powerful, quick and easy to use.
Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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