Zoo upgrades network
As part of a $450,000 enterprise IT upgrade, Melbourne Zoo has installed a new switched network as it prepares to embark on an aggressive Web strategy.
As part of a $450,000 enterprise IT upgrade, Melbourne Zoo has installed a new switched network as it prepares to embark on an aggressive Web strategy.
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) will piece together a $1 million business intelligence system at the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.
In the lead-up to Compaq's announcement of its channel model at the end of the month, the vendor last week revealed a host of senior sales positions including two senior channel positions. According to a Compaq spokesperson, this initial list of approximately 100 announcements is the prelude to at least another 1400 company-wide appointments which will be finalised over the next month.
Adaptec has attempted to capitalise on the growing CD burning market by launching an upgraded version of its CD-recording/ReWritable software, Easy CD Creator Deluxe. According to Malcom Parsons, Adaptec's recently appointed country manager for Australia, falling prices of CD recorders globally and the introduction of rewritable technology have given the storage medium a boost.
Cabletron resellers will have the opportunity to prove they know what they're doing, by under-going a new certification program introduced last week by the company.
SYDNEY - IDC Australia has just released a report which includes yearly projections on the size of the Australian outsourcing market between 1997 and 2002.
On the ninth of September, Recognition PR staged its second Understand the IT Media seminar, a panel discussion for PR, marketing and channel representatives to meet and hear from members of the IT press. ARN invited Martha Raupp of Recognition PR to report on the discussion
Bay Networks has appointed its new channel manager, poaching former Anixter sales guy Gary Starr to take on the position of regional channel manager for Aus- tralia and New Zealand.
In another strategic move to bolster its flagging channel stocks, Cabletron last week signed up systems integrator Compaq Services as an accredited Spectrum reseller.
Australia's top 150 organisations have revealed that they will each spend an average of $26.5 million while collectively their budget will rise to over $4 billion to prepare their fight against the millennium bug, according to a study by Deloitte Touche.
Retail chain Dick Smith Electronics last week confirmed reports by ARN that the organisation is due to open a second PowerHouse in the Sydney suburb of Penrith.
With networking high on the agenda of many Australian small-to-medium businesses (SMB), Melbourne-based distributor CHA has snared a national partnership with 3Com to distribute its OfficeConnect family of products
Continuing its bid to secure a 30 per cent share of the Australia modem market, 3Com yesterday revealed it would slash a further 10 per cent off the price of its entire modem product range. The new pricing structure will see the 3Com US Robotics 56K V.90 external Voice Faxmodem priced at $249 (inc tax) compared to $259 (inc tax).
Two years of research and development, and seven million dollars worth of investment have gone into the latest version of local software developer Technology One's flagship product, Finance One.
Australian IS managers believe the year 2000 problem is taking a heavier toll on short-term IT spending than their US counterparts, a new worldwide survey reveals. According to Graham Penn, IDC Australia and New Zealand general manager: "While managers in both countries placed Y2K behind the impact of upgrading IT infrastructure and applications, the Australian managers certainly rated it as more important to their overall budgets than did those in the US."