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Adelaide based Flinders University is reviewing its entire information and technology approach with the recently installed CIO keen to shift increasing amounts of computing to the cloud.

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has signed a three year, $5 million deal for an enterprise content management platform from local listed software company Objective Corporation. While Customs had an earlier stab at content management using an OpenText system, it was never completed, leaving Objective to pick up the threads and weave a comprehensive content management network for the Service.

Deakin University is staring down the barrel of 'pretty drastic cuts' to its IT budget in 2012 as the institution reacts to an increasingly uncertain economic landscape.

Listed IT&T services business Anittel has blitzed the opposition to emerge as the clear winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list with a 1022 per cent growth rate. But md Peter Kazacos has warned that start-up companies relying on banks for their finances can't expect to come within cooee of that sort of growth because of the financial sector's inherent conservatism.

Australian based financial software company Distra has spent the week at Sibos, the world's leading banking conference, to show off what its CEO Mike Aston believes could prove a pragmatic solution to the banks' mobile payments problem. It's working with Cisco on the system which it has dubbed the Universal Payments Platform.

NBN Co is encouraging manufacturers of security alarms to consider becoming specialist resellers of the National Broadband Network, potentially harnessing the network to deliver cloud based monitoring of security video.

Only an Agile approach to systems development will cut it in the fast paced world of internet banking according to the head of UBank, NAB's online division which has now racked up almost 200,000 customers for its online only accounts, generating almost $10 billion worth of deposits.