Governments are steadily coming to grips with both the opportunities and challenges posed by social media in improving outreach to citizens and stakeholders

Longtime mainframe user the Northern Territory government has committed to a contemporary IBM mainframe as the basis for its core database systems.

New chief digital officers will commonly join CIOs in the executive ranks at government agencies by 2014, Gartner research has forecasted.

Queensland's Noosa Shire Council is implementing the Nexon Absolute hosted unified communications (UC) solution in the leadup to its 2014 separation.

NSW Health service-delivery arm HealthShare has invested heavily in Oracle middleware and cloud capabilities to support a major e-business refurb.

Emergency services organisations are moving to embrace mobile information technologies that empower staff with critical and contextual information.

Government contractor Lockheed Martin will build up its cybersecurity skills capability through a new cyber security centre opened this month in the ACT.

Queensland's Redland City Council to implement Objective enterprise content management (ECM) system to consolidate data silos, tap into unstructured data.

A NEC Australia training program will target talented indigenous students as part of its mission to train 50 NT apprentices as IT-industry staff by 2018.

The proliferation of digital content has forced government records keepers to adapt their information management strategies.

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Mainframes could see a resurgence in the push for more cloud computing power.

Strong local-government response to cloud enabling initiatives has shown just how big the council appetite for cloud has already become.

NSW's Gosford City Council has steered a group of 43 NSW councils to a landmark VMware and VDI group-buying deal that's expected to save $3 million.