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A roundup of the latest business technology executive appointments and events in New Zealand and Australia.

Research company Ovum says almost three quarters of CIOs have deployed green IT in their organisation and a further 8 percent are planning to do so by the end of 2012.
The survey conducted by Ovum canvassed CIOs and IT decision-markers across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Australia and found that the number of companies using green IT grew to 73 percent in the second half of 2010, from approximately 68 percent in the first half.

Tom Honan knows his blades from his non-blade servers, the difference between consolidation and virtualisation, the benefits of commoditisation, the risks of consumerisation and personalisation, and the importance of embracing green technology. The chief financial officer of Computershare knows the numbers - in units and dollars - spent on, and saved by, adopting new hardware-based technologies and trends. (Honan starts as CFO at Transurban this month.)
Village Roadshow chief financial officer Julie Raffe, on the other hand, may not be able to spot a blade server at 10 paces, but she is well abreast of hardware technologies and trends. Like Computershare's Honan, she knows the details of her company's adoption and implementation of the latest hardware, keeps a close eye on progress and is happy with the results.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed up almost one million customers in just over a year to use a new type of internet banking security designed to stamp out fraud from phishing and other scams.
The CBA's general manager of online banking, Drew Unsworth, told The Australian Financial Review his group had about 950,000 customers using its "two-factor" authentication tools, which require users to enter one-time passwords to authorise some online transactions.