Micheal is presenting a workshop on Data Quality Metrics and IT Governance in Sydney on 13th April 2006 for Ark Group: Data Quality Metrics and IT Governance Registration: 9.00am Workshop starts: 9.30am Workshop ends: 12.30pm About the workshop: This workshop will examine the link between data quality metrics, and the delivery and monitoring of this …
As usual, more acronyms than you can throw a hairy stick at. In the wake of that last post, written a few minutes ago, I note that IBM has now joined the free database party. One thing MySQL seems to be doing is putting the cat among the pigeons, so to speak. IBM Sets DB2 …
December 2005′s issue of Australian Technology & Business magazine (published by ZDNet Australia) compares the Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and MySQL offerings. Somewhat surprisingly to me, I noted that Steven Turvey of RMIT IT Test Labs compared the entry level of all four products. This result meant that the $8,000 ($206 per user + $1000 per …
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After receiving a spate of National Australia Bank phishing attempts, and then Westpac bank phishing attempts, over Christmas I couldn’t let this one pass without recording it for posterity. “Verification Required Attention Banking Customer, Criminal and terrorist elements have recently increased efforts to launder money through dormant debit-oriented accounts under the identities of deceased citizens …
It’s interesting that when you do reviews of IT departments for clients that many attempt to reinvent the wheel, or service management framework if you will, despite the fact that said wheel has been in stable production for some time now and if the plans were bought off the shelf the result would be within …