SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
15 December, 2011SolarWinds has integrated its Virtualization Manager and Storage Manager tools to offer extended cloud management.
Infrastructure as a service helps Village Roadshow cope with data growth
13 December, 2011Village Roadshow has moved to the cloud with an IaaS model to cope with its massive data growth.
Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 for Windows Server failover
12 December, 2011Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 6.0 for Windows is designed to help organisations rapidly failover Windows Server applications.
CA Cloud 360 helps cloud service migration
08 December, 2011Cloud 360 provides enterprises with a prescriptive approach to validate and select which applications and business services are best suited to private, public and hybrid clouds or traditional models.
Voice+Data wins Cover of the Year award
07 December, 2011Voice+Data last month earned the award of Cover of the Year for B2B magazines, at the Publishers Australia Excellence Awards. The magazine won the award for the ‘My Dog is a Cloud’ illustration, featured on the cover of the May 2011 issue.
OzHub to raise cloud profile in Australia
14 November, 2011 by Merri MackInnovation Minister Senator Kim Carr recently launched OzHub, a cloud initiative with the aim of building “Australian consumer and business confidence in cloud computing”. Merri Mack takes a closer look at OzHub and its potential impact on cloud computing in Australia.
Getting a grip
04 November, 2011 by Merri Mack
In his eleven years at TechnologyOne, IT Manager Andrew Bauer has seen the IT team grow from just two members to a team that supports the company’s current staff of 850 people. Merri Mack talks to Bauer about the challenges of getting a hold of something relatively intangible - such as the cloud - and using it to create real-world benefits for the business.
Juniper Networks Junosphere Lab cloud-based development environment
26 October, 2011
Junosphere Lab is a virtual environment for network design, testing and operation. Using Junosphere Lab, users can create and run networks, on-demand, by ‘renting’ virtual networks. This, it is claimed, speeds up modelling projects and lowers total cost of ownership when compared to the alternative of building a physical lab. It also provides network operators with the opportunity to work at a scale that is difficult to achieve with physical equipment.
The rise and pitfalls of data centre virtualisation
04 October, 2011 by Merri Mack
Data centre operators continue to be hounded by perennial problems like rising energy costs and increasing compute demands. Many are seeking to virtualise the entire data centre in order to get a leg-up. But this pursuit carries many dangers, as Merri Mack found out.
Aussie cloud services revenues to quadruple by 2015
21 September, 2011
Increased interest in the cloud across all sizes of business will continue to fuel the cloud computing service market in Australia, with revenues in Australia set to quadruple by 2015.
Small business latches onto cloud computing
19 September, 2011 by Merri Mack
Cloud computing is offering small business the applications and IT concepts that were previously exclusive to large enterprises, like disaster recovery and data resiliency. Merri Mack reports on this flattening of IT.
The telco cloud invasion
07 September, 2011 by Andrew Collins
Australian telcos have begun ramping up their cloud service offerings in earnest, as part of a larger war effort to sequester a piece of the cloud services pie for themselves. So what does this mean for IT departments looking at adopting cloud solutions? Andrew Collins finds out.
Adopting the cloud without compromising security
07 September, 2011
The cloud promises many advantages - dynamic allocation of resources, CAPEX-based pricing and so on. But so far, there are no widely accepted standards for security in a cloud environment, leading some organisations to be wary of the technology. Patrick Eijkenboom, Principal Consultant at NetIQ, discusses best practices for security when adopting cloud computing.
Thinkpiece: Do we really need ‘the cloud’?
02 September, 2011 by Andrew Collins
Nowadays, ‘the cloud’ is a term that’s widely misused. It’s a broad, abstract concept that is frequently applied to many technologies, as though they were the same thing, despite each being radically different from the other. This leads to great confusion and frustration among users, who are growing increasingly cynical of the real value of cloud computing. This begs the question: do we really need the concept of ‘the cloud’?
Big data and cloud computing skills shortages
29 July, 2011 by Merri Mack
With the rapid explosion of data volumes occuring around the globe, the IT industry is scrambling for qualified workers to handle the challenges that arise. Merri Mack takes a look at the cloud and ‘big data’ storage certification programs that vendors and universities have to offer.
