The existence of and potential for participation in a data centre community will be a potential opportunity for CIOs and IT managers to add competitive value for their organisations. [ + ]

Deakin University and SAS have set up a joint research laboratory to develop new ways of visualising big data, such as being able to move through the data in a virtual 3D environment. [ + ]

Telstra's first Transparency Report shows the company received more than 40,000 requests from law enforcement for customer information. But despite its name, the report leaves many questions unanswered. [ + ]

A survey of IT decision-makers shows that nearly half think their organisations have more applications than they need and only a third believe that the majority of their applications are mission critical. [ + ]

Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull has commissioned an audit into the processes that led to Labor's development of its NBN policy. The review is being described by some as a 'witch hunt' aimed at embarrassing Labor. [ + ]

GS1 and the Open Mobile Alliance have demonstrated using Google Glass to scan product barcodes and receive product information as part of their push to include barcode scanning as standard in Android and iOS. [ + ]

Melbourne-based Oakton has picked up a four-year deal to design and manage a new Document Verification Service (DVS) for the Attorney-General's Department. [ + ]

Facebook is in talks to purchase drone manufacturer Titan Aerospace, according to recent news reports. [ + ]

The traditional server OEMs are losing their grasp on the market, with at least one likely to partially exit the market by 2017, according to a recent Gartner report. [ + ]

Server virtualisation is now mainstream in Australia and New Zealand, with more than 80% of server operating systems running as virtualised machines, according to Gartner. But there are still some workloads that can cause problems to the unprepared when they are virtualised, and uncooperative software vendors don't make life any easier. [ + ]

New changes to Australia's Privacy Act which come into effect this month could catch up to three in five Australian organisations unprepared, and leave them liable to penalties. [ + ]

Hundreds of millions of usernames and passwords are being sold on the black market, and security experts agree that in the wrong hands, stolen passwords can be more damaging than stolen credit card numbers. [ + ]

Domain registrar Melbourne IT has entered into an agreement to purchase Netregistry Group in a deal worth $50.4 million. [ + ]

A malware attack on enterprises occurred once every 1.5 seconds in 2013, and there were command and control servers in nearly every country worldwide, according to FireEye. [ + ]

Nominations are open for the 2014 ACOMMS Australian telecom industry awards. [ + ]