According to reports, thousands of small and medium businesses will have lost their servers and IT infrastructure as well as potentially their data. StorageCraft is appealing to service providers, ISPs and server hosting companies to donate space for those customers who have been affected by the flooding to help businesses bring their critical systems online. [ + ]

NSS Labs has tested 13 intrusion prevention systems and finds five vendors achieve the recommended rating. [ + ]

Ovum tracks cloud computing and has made predictions of take up for 2011 in its latest report. [ + ]

From disruptive to productive: Unisys Predicts 2011 to be a year of practical application of cutting-edge technologies. With cost-consciousness the ‘new normal’, organisations will tap the cloud, consumerisation of IT, social and smart computing, appliances, and cybersecurity to make their mission-critical systems more productive, secure and efficient. [ + ]

Amdocs has released the results of a survey that outlines the scale and significance of the data capacity crunch for mobile network service providers and their customers. The survey examined wireless service providers’ strategies for coping with the increasing demand for data on their networks while maintaining acceptable service quality. [ + ]

Telstra, in a partnership with Acer and Ericsson, has launched Australia’s first commercial netbook that supports typical download speeds of 550 Kbps to 8 Mbps on the Next G network in capital cities and many regional areas, providing the fastest mobile broadband experience available without a separate USB card. [ + ]

The tourism and retail sectors will be the first to benefit from a new $6 million NSW Government fund to develop innovative new-to-market information communication technology initiatives. [ + ]

It's going to be a good year for telecommunication in 2011 with the NBN marching towards fruition predicts IDC. [ + ]

Telstra and Huawei have reported successfully demonstrating downlink speeds of 149.4 Mbps using trials of long term evolution (LTE) mobile technology using the 1800 MHz spectrum. [ + ]

The Huawei and RMIT partnership delivers a new $250,000 technology lab which aims to train 2000 students on a range of technologies commencing early in 2011. [ + ]

The Biannual Emerson Network Power study says the ICT infrastructure pipeline is set to grow and capital expenditure is also on the rise. So the Asian data centre is optimistic for 2011. [ + ]

NSW Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development Eric Roozendaal has announced Sydney researchers are preparing for human trials of a world-first smartchip designed to treat chronic pain by implanting it near the spinal cord. [ + ]

Dimension Data plans to open a second Global Service Centre (GSC) in Australia. The centre will be based in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde and will be established in partnership with the NSW Government with assistance from Industry and Investment NSW. [ + ]

With cybercrime becoming rife, Huawei has opened a cyber security evaluation centre in the UK to ensure its hardware and software systems will be tested to withstand cyber security threats. [ + ]

Telstra has launched a high-definition videoconferencing solution which will provide more than 6.5 million regional and rural Australians greater access to care from city health professionals. [ + ]