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Green IT is number one priority: Gartner

The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner. Read more »

Microsoft: Online services are for businesses, too

Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie has given a peek into some of the online services Microsoft intends to offer to businesses, including single sign-on and network management. Read more »

Scared or oblivious: Australia's SMEs on Linux

Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today. Read more »

CIOs shift focus to IT services in 2005: Gartner

Chief information officers (CIOs) will be shifting their priorities in 2005 to improving business processes, according to analyst Bob Hayward from Gartner Group. Read more »

SAP inks open-source database deal

Business application powerhouse SAP is tapping MySQL's open-source database software in a deal that should let the smaller company accelerate its development plans. Read more »

Virus downs London hospitals

Three London hospitals have had to shut down most of their computer systems after being struck by a virus. Read more »

Ubuntu gets user interface team

Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, this week said it would hire a team to help make open source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. Read more »

NSW to censor student laptops

The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) plans to limit internet access on the laptops given to NSW's senior students under the "digital education revolution" to a pre-approved list of websites. Read more »

IT managers blamed for making staff sick

Overly authoritarian and bureaucratic IT managers are bad for morale and productivity and are making their staff sick. Read more »

Facebook to 'punish' bad apps

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a change in the social networking company's approach to its application platform when he took the stage at the F8 conference in the US today. Read more »

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Workload planning is an ongoing process

One of management's main functions is to keep the staff busy on the most important work. People, supplies, and money are too precious to spend on tasks that don't carry the greatest business value. Tom Mochal explains planning the use of your resources. Read more »

Select, prioritise projects with a business case

Every company needs to compare projects and determine hierarchy. A business case document provides this level of information and is quicker and much easier to prepare than a formal project definition. Read more »

10 midyear resolutions for IT managers

More than half the year has gone by, and some of those promising New Year's resolutions made at the start of 2007 have probably been forgotten or abandoned. Here's a recap of some goals to help guide your progress for the rest of 2007. Read more »

A SOA allows for better alignment

An SOA enables organisations to create a more meaningful relationship between services and business processes. Read more »

Four steps to vendor evaluation

POC testing is just half of the battle in making effective purchases. Here are four areas to focus on during vendor evaluations. Read more »

Keeping the door open...and shut

A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like? Read more »

Almost as good as being there

Virtual machines gained popularity as a way to emulate Windows on Mac OS or Linux. ZDNet Australia looks at the two most popular packages. Read more »

A revolution in business process management?

BPM programming typically requires the equivalent of extreme mountain-climbing skills. Intalio may be ridding BPM of its rough edges and steep costs. Read more »

Open source software as a viable business choice

As an IT manager, controlling software costs is a top priority. Make sure you understand how to promote the virtues of open source. Read more »

Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome

Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler." Read more »

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