Avaya sees opportunity in Asia-Pacific SMB space
Avaya plans set up shop in New Zealand and appoint a country manager, although there is no set time-frame for this, says Patricia Hume, Avaya’s vice president of SMB solutions.
Avaya plans set up shop in New Zealand and appoint a country manager, although there is no set time-frame for this, says Patricia Hume, Avaya’s vice president of SMB solutions.
Over 87% of Kiwi organisations report having experienced some kind of security incident, according to the 2005 New Zealand Computer Crime and Security Survey — the first survey of its kind in this country.
ICTNZ, the proposed umbrella organisation for New Zealand’s ICT sector, is inching closer to launch.
Kristin School in Albany, Auckland, has around 1,700 students, ranging from kindergarten to Year 13. The school has a fleet of 1,400 PCs, of which almost 1,100 are laptops, and the school intranet allows students to upload assessments and have them reviewed online.
Financial institutions around the world experienced an increase in the number of online attacks during the past year, according to the 2006 Deloitte Global Security Survey. Globally 78% — up from 26% in 2005 — experienced security attacks from outside the organisation. Remarkably, every single respondent from the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, said they had experienced at least one information security breach in the last 12 months, compared with 16% last year.
The number of electronic attacks in Australia is decreasing, according to the 2006 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey. Twenty-two percent of respondents experienced attacks in the past year, compared with 35% in 2005 and 49% in 2004.
Novell’s desktop solution costs up to 70% less to operate than the equivalent Microsoft products, says Open Systems Specialists, which resells the solution.
IDG publication Reseller News and IBM have initiated an awards programme for resellers, the IBM business partner awards.
The merger of IT and telecommunications continues apace if research company IDC's latest research is anything to go by.
Mighty River Power, which is installing a $30 million turbine generator at its Penrose plant in December, is getting good value out of its project management system, says Tim Lockie, who runs Mighty River Power’s programme management office.
Air traffic control students at Airways New Zealand’s training centre used to use a mechanical simulator, made up of runways painted onto ping-pong tables and sewing machine engines which drove wooden aircraft suspended on wires, to practise their skills.
City Care has developed its own event management software which has both lifted service levels and provides a single view of a current contract – even to those out in the field.
Genesis Energy used to have a huge problem with human error and incomplete work orders, but automating work with Field Services System (FSS) is getting the job done much better.
New Zealand Police plan TO SET up a high-tech crime reporting centre, in partnership with other government agencies, such as CCIP (Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection) and DIA (Department of Internal Affairs), says Maarten Kleintjes, head of the New Zealand Police Electronic Crime Laboratory.
Visa International says merchants should take a greater responsibility for credit card security, for example by complying with the security standards in the Account Information Security programme (AIS). This is sponsored by Visa and run by Visa’s member banks. However, uptake among merchants in New Zealand, especially small-and medium-sized ones, has been slow, says Iain Jamieson, Visa International’s New Zealand country manager.