Just weeks after pinching the former Hutchison CEO, Optus has now landed a former Telstra executive for the role of managing director of Optus Business. John Paitaridis (Credit: Optus) John Paitaridis comes to the role with over 20 years in the industry, most recently with Telstra as the company's executive director of Network Products and Services for the telco's Enterprise and Government division

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Many Australian businesses have no plan for how they will start work again following a disaster, says flexible-workspace provider Regus. Businesses affected by natural disasters could face huge financial costs, but smaller incidents, such as vandalism, theft of company data and power outages, can also have a serious impact

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Too many firms lack disaster plans

The outlook for IT spending this year isn't quite as rosy as Gartner previously predicted. (Credit: Gartner) Spending on IT products and services is expected to reach US$3.8 trillion in 2012, a 3.7 per cent rise from last year, when spending totalled $3.7 trillion and had climbed by 6.9 per cent from 2010. Released overnight, the new forecast is a dip from Gartner's prior projection of 4.6 per cent growth for this year

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Gartner lowers global IT spending forecast

Cloud computing , Intel's mobile strategy , ultrabooks and Apple's enterprise mojo will dominate 2012. In this instalment of the year ahead, cloud computing becomes the go-to deployment choice, RIM faces a dramatic overhaul, Intel gets a mobile groove, Apple formally plays the enterprise game and all businesses will increasingly use techniques retailers have used for years. Here's my read on the year ahead

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2012: 9 business tech predictions

Cloud computing, third-party maintenance and customers fretting about IT debt may turn into a toxic view for on-premise enterprise software vendors.

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Maintenance model faces triple threat

After harsh criticism from the coalition, the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) has announced that it will limit wholesale price increases to half of the yearly inflation, and will freeze all wholesale prices for the first five years of the operation of the network.

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NBN Co retreats on price-hike clause

It's official: Facebook has hired the makers of Gowalla, a location-based social-networking app.

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Gowalla team to join Facebook in January

Thailand's recent floods will have a less serious impact on the supply chain for enterprise hard-disk drives (HDDs) compared to consumer storage as manufacturers place higher priority on the higher margin commercial storage business.

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Enterprise storage less impacted by floods

A Linux kernel hacker who completed an in-depth analysis of Carrier IQ's controversial software has determined that it's incapable of recording keystrokes or scanning SMS messages and email correspondence.

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Carrier IQ analysis finds no keylogger

If Oracle and SAP can gobble up cloud players there will be evolution not revolution.

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Enterprise giants start great cloudify effort