CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers talks with McAfee Australia CTO Michael Sentonas about the findings of McAfee’s latest critical infrastructure protection report, In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the age of Cyberwar as well as the new security threats CIOs face in today’s Web 2.0 world.

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CIO Industry Insight Podcast #8: Michael Sentonas, Chief Technology Officer for McAfee Australia

CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers talks with Peter Thomas, Oracle’s Senior Director for Exadata Solutions and Architecture, about the company’s latest high-end database and storage system.

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CIO Industry Insight Podcast #7: Peter Thomas, Senior Director for Exadata Solutions & Architecture, Oracle ANZ

CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers talks with Brenton Smith, CA’s managing director in Australia and New Zealand, about how the software multinational coped with the global economic downturn, it’s Mainframe 2.0 initiative and the company plans for cloud computing.

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CIO Industry Insight Podcast #6: Brenton Smith, Managing Director, CA (ANZ)

CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers interviews Mark Toomey, author of “Waltzing with the Elephant: A Comprehensive Guide to Directing and Controlling Information Technology”. Framed around the international standard ISO/IEC 38500, Waltzing with the Elephant explains what IT governance is, how it fits into the overall regime of corporate governance and IT service management and also defines the characteristics that organisations should exhibit when they are truly effective in governing their use of IT.

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CIO Live Podcast #88: Mark Toomey, author of Waltzing with the Elephant: A Comprehensive Guide to Directing and Controlling Information Technology

Cloud computing is an important new stage in the evolution of commercial IT, but this technological advancement is still confusing to many senior IT executives. In this special edition podcast, CIO Australia editor Matt Rodgers speaks to Stephen Hains, Director, ANZ IBM, to help clear the fog surrounding cloud computing models.

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Special Report: Building Smarter Business with Cloud Computing

CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers talks with Lindsay Armstrong, head of Salesforce.com’s international business, about how the global financial crisis is affecting the SaaS provider, the state of the company’s partnerships with the likes of Facebook, Amazon and Twitter, and the role that its platform-as-a-service offering, Force.com, will play in the future of Cloud Computing.

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CIO Industry Insight Podcast #5: Lindsay Armstrong, Head of International Field Sales, Salesforce.com

Part II of CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers’ interview with David Jaffe, co-author of The Best Service is No Service, a new book which asserts that Customer Relationship Managers are using the wrong metrics — they need to reduce customer contacts by treating service an indicator of dysfunction and figuring out how to eliminate the demand.

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CIO Live Podcast #87: Rethinking the Customer Relationship Part II: David Jaffe, co-author of The Best Service is No Service

Part I of CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers’ interview with David Jaffe, co-author of The Best Service is No Service, a new book which asserts that Customer Relationship Managers are using the wrong metrics — they need to reduce customer contacts by treating service as an indicator of dysfunction and figuring out how to eliminate the demand.

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CIO Live Podcast #86: Rethinking the Customer Relationship Part I: David Jaffe, co-author of The Best Service is No Service

Business leaders of all types are being pressured to cut costs as a result of the economic down turn, and the first casualty is often work/life balance. This week, CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers speaks to Lynelle Johnson, former journalist, TV presenter for Burke’s Backyard, Sunday and Business Sunday, and head of award-winning PR Consultancy firm Media Success, about her new book, Recession-Proof Your Lifeand what it can teach senior executives about dealing with job stress and boosting employee morale in difficult times.

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CIO Live Podcast #86: Resisting the Economic Downtown: Lynelle Johnson, author of Recession-Proof Your Life

CIO Editor Matt Rodgers talks with Emma Weedon, Senior Associate with law firm McCullough Robertson, about the increasing need for companies to comply with privacy laws.

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CIO Live Podcast #83 – Privacy Laws: Emma Weedon, Senior Associate, McCullough Robertson