Gartner group vice president of Asia Pacific Warren Anderson is not only active in the IT industry in Australia, but also competes internationally in triathlons, so he needs to travel, and often. Here are his travel tips. Warren Anderson (Credit: Gartner) Gartner provides research and insights into the IT industry, delving into the nuts and bolts of business technology

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Travel Tech Q and A: Gartner's Warren Anderson

One of the most celebrated IPOs in history, which raised US$16 billion dollars, ended the day below where it started. At Facebook, it's back to business. After Zuckerberg rang the bell (Credit: James Martin/CNET) After an all-night 'hackathon' at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the ceremonial Nasdaq bell from his home turf and the trading started

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Facebook IPO goes off without a bang

The way in which IT departments have been approaching information security is flawed, according to Juniper Networks senior director and security architect Christopher Hoff, who said that security departments need to adopt automation to free up their time to think outside the box.

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Automation key for time-poor security boffins

What's an IPO and why is Facebook doing it? How's this year's AusCERT?

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Lightning round!

The Victorian Government has made the decision to scrap its HealthSMART system, which was years overdue and had run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. HealthSMART was launched in 2003 and had been designed to run as a single electronic foundation for the state's public health service. The single platform would combine a finance system, as well as patient-management and clinical-applications services.

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Vic scraps HealthSMART system

Attorney-General Nicola Roxon today said that the US and Australia have agreed on a statement of intent to increase collaboration on cybersecurity.

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US, Australia team up on cybersecurity

Whether it's in a public or private organisation, IT procurement, and perhaps procurement of any kind, seems to be a black hole that if not watched, can suck money away into an abyss. We've heard the stories of the government employees in Victoria who were receiving gift cards for buying printer toner that departments didn't need .

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Woolies case poses procurement questions

Australian Power and Gas has implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM and other Microsoft software to handle a skyrocketing number of customer queries, but the company's CIO has said that he won't complete the ecosystem with Windows 8 tablets, as the iPad works just fine for a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) model. (Power lines image by Charles Haynes , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Joseph Gullotta joined Australian Power and Gas in 2010 as the company's chief information officer

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Dynamics CRM saves email-drowned utility

The golden age of cybercrime could come to a close as soon as 2014, according to Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky - as long as the world changes how it coordinates on creating laws to govern the internet. Eugene Kaspersky (Credit: Michael Lee/ZDNet Australia) Speaking to ZDNet Australia and presenting at AusCERT 2012 this week, Kaspersky slammed the traditional model of regulation for technology and cybercrime, criticising it of being slow and unsuitable. "Traditional regulation - it's far, far, far behind reality," he said.

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Cybercrime golden age over in two years?

As a tech journalist, you soon learn the view of the "end users" who make up your publication's readership; typically, the IT manager or CIO.

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When regulation goes too far