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Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organizations and Users in 2010 and Beyond

“Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the key predictions that herald long-term changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve for 2010 and beyond. Gartner’s top predictions for 2010 showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business today and beyond..”
Its a fascinating read, find the full article here

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Climate Change..

That’s right, you have not misread the heading.. not the kind of thing you would expect to see on here, right?.. Before you ask, I have not lost my mind, well.. not entirely.. today is Blog Action Day ‘09 and this year’s topic is Climate Change so I thought I would try to talk about [...]

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“TechEd Australia Should be a Full Week”

Having attended Tech-ed Australia last week, I cant help but echo my friend and colleague Craig’s thoughts. Infact, I thought I would repost something from his blog. The original post can be viewed here
Last week I attended TechEd Australia in the Gold Coast.  I had a great time learning, connecting, talking, networking, teaching, socialising and [...]

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Tech-ed 2009 update: Forefront TMG

Today I attended the SEC208 session with Jamie Sharp which really provided a great overview of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG). If you use and like ISA server, you’ll love TMG.
Some of the great new things we can look forward to are web filtering, URL filtering and it also has built in Exchange [...]

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Tech-ed 2009 update: BPOS rocks!

If you are attending tech-ed, make sure you get your Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) account setup.. I have been most impressed by BPOS.
What’s BPOS? click here

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Chris’s guide to tech-ed Australia 2009!

So you’ve arrived in the Gold Coast, checked in, unpacked, visited the gym and checked out the pool (right?) now what? I was planning which sessions to attend over the next few days and thought it would be a good idea write a post about it.
Firstly, I would definitely recommend that you get to registration [...]

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Did you know?

I first saw this at a Quest Software presentation a little while ago, fascinating stuff:
 

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IBM Lotusphere Comes to You 2009

Yesterday I attended the IBM Lotusphere Comes to You event here in Sydney. I was excited to see what the IBM Unified Communications strategy would be and ended getting a lot more than I had bargained for.
The event covered a large part of their portfolio from Messaging and Collaboration, UC and Web Portals to Cloud [...]

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Join The New Zealand Internet Blackout

Those of you who frequent my blog (or follow me on twitter) will know that I am strongly to any form of internet censorship. Here in Australia the government is currently trailing new ISP level filtering which threatens to reduce our internet to a state comparable to China, read more here
In New Zealand, they have [...]

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Internet Censorship in Australia: Update

THE Federal Government’s internet filtering plan has been compared to censorship in China by one of the participants in its blacklist trials. Read full article here
Check out the NO CLEAN FEED website here

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