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What is OpenStack and why do you need to know?
Dubbed the ‘Linux of the cloud’, OpenStack is an important element of cloud interoperability. [ + ]
Change at helm for Technology Decisions
After playing a key role in the successful launch of multichannel IT media brand Technology Decisions, Anthony Caruana will hand the editor role to colleague and former Voice+Data editor Andrew Collins, starting next month. [ + ]
More data storage? Here’s how to fit 1000 terabytes on a DVD
We live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90% of the world’s data was generated in the past two years. The obvious question is: how can we store it all? [ + ]
The challenges of complexity
As business cycles get crunched and we’re more connected with our stakeholders, businesses need to adapt to a world where decisions can have far-reaching and unexpected effects. [ + ]
IBM Australia may axe 1000 jobs
IBM’s global job cutting has hit Australia, with several sources indicating local layoffs have already begun. Australian layoffs are rumoured to total 1000. [ + ]
NSA spy scandal recap: Snowden disappears; Europe unhappy with surveillance; Tech companies push back
The recent exposure of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) previously secret electronic surveillance program, PRISM, has triggered a glut of news stories around the globe over the last couple of weeks. Here’s a quick guide to the last week’s events. [ + ]
BYOD is here to stay: why enterprises should embrace the buzzing trend
The bring your own device (BYOD) trend has been making its way into Australian enterprises, with personal smartphones and tablets being used more frequently by employees for professional purposes. The business benefits of BYOD are recognisable - rather than issuing company devices to workers frequently on the go, often through a formal and central procurement process, companies can permit employees to simply bring their own. [ + ]
Is your new network SDN or CCN?
With ethernet now 40 years old, it would be easy to say that most of the innovation cycle is done and that all we have ahead of us is incremental evolution. But is that true? What will your new network look like? [ + ]
No excuses on compliance
Over the last couple of years, the IT landscape has made significant changes and there are more to come. With mobility, BYOD and cloud services changing the security profile of businesses and greater focus on regulatory compliance by regulators, the nature of managing compliance in IT departments is changing. [ + ]
Queensland Govt to slash 1700+ IT jobs
The Queensland Government will cut at least 1700 public sector IT jobs over the next two years, as part of a cost-cutting strategy that will see the government outsource some of its IT and communications needs to the private sector. [ + ]
IF Telecom leaks customer data; Google to drop US$1.3 billion on social mapping dev Waze
Australian telco IF Telecom leaks customer details via a publicly accessible server, and Google is reportedly set to buy social mapping developer Waze for more than US$1 billion. [ + ]
The latest from the Asia Cloud Forum
The Asia Cloud Forum, an online media portal, has been created to represent the interests of enterprise users, governments, telcos, vendors, policy makers and others with a stake in the development of cloud computing in Asia.
[ + ]Will Windows 8 win by stealth?
Microsoft’s latest operating system has been subject to much derision, confusion and rejection. The new tiled interface has received the greatest criticism, but perhaps Microsoft’s game is to take a longer view. [ + ]
The great disruptor
Today, Australia is facing disruption on a number of fronts. Our resources boom is cycling down, equity is volatile and investment credit available to business is entering a new era of caution. Many eyes are looking to ICT even as technology itself continues to disrupt key areas of our lives such as health, retail, education, entertainment and even our sense of community and identity. [ + ]
NBN asbestos debacle: heads roll, school affected, govt forms register
The NBN asbestos debacle has deepened this week, with more dangerous sites continuing to be identified, talk of legal liability, the formation of an asbestos register and the head of one Telstra subcontractor leaving his company following the asbestos revelations. [ + ]