Securing a unified infrastructure
08 September, 2010 by Andrew Collins
In July’s feature we looked at the recent trend of vendors offering pre-integrated packages of infrastructure, combining servers, storage, networking in the one physical box. This month, Andrew Collins wonders how these integrated boxes fit into a security strategy.
Aussie universities join IBM's clean water research program
08 September, 2010
University of Sydney and Monash University will work with China’s Tsinghua University and global academics to improve water quality.
Data centre managers will continue to spend on technology
07 September, 2010
Sixty per cent of data centre managers plan to increase technology spending.
Report finds IT could do better when it comes to green IT
07 September, 2010
Fujitsu's research report Green IT: Global Benchmark contains findings of the first multicountry survey to determine the maturity of green IT practices and technologies in large IT-using organisations in Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India.
prReports finds IT could do better when it comes to Green IT
07 September, 2010
Fujitsu's research report Green IT: Global Benchmark, contains findings of the first multi-country survey to determine the maturity of Green IT practices and technologies in large IT-using organisations in Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India.
IT service managers cite relationships with IT vendors as important
07 September, 2010Relationships matter when dealing with IT vendors.
Extreme Networks XNV data centre virtualisation life cycle management
02 September, 2010
The XNV network-based dynamic data centre virtualisation life cycle management solution provides visibility, control and automation of virtual machines (VM) to the network administrator.
GFC results in stagnant ITC salaries
02 September, 2010
The ACS 2010 Remuneration Survey finds a 3.3% salary increase overall while 45% of private sector employees received no salary increase.
Automated deployment of master PCs saves time
01 September, 2010
Located in the Geelong region of Victoria, Christian College is a K-12 school focused on quality education. It has a current enrolment of around 1800 students and 240 administration and teaching staff across five campus locations.
PUE gains validity as a data centre energy measurement
31 August, 2010 by Christian Bertolini*
The government has recently announced plans to green its ICT, including reducing the PUE of its data centres from 2.5 to 1.9 by July 2015. Christian Bertolini, Chief Technology Officer, APC by Schneider Electric, issues a response to the government’s green ICT plans and the validity of PUE.
Pre-integrated stacks of servers, storage and networking the latest thing in the world of IT infrastructure
31 August, 2010 by Andrew Collins*
Pre-integrated stacks of servers, storage and networking are the latest thing in the world of IT infrastructure. But how long will they stick around, and what effect will they have on the security vendors? Andrew Collins investigates.
HP rewards recycling of old technology
27 August, 2010
HP launches Replace, Recycle, Reward campaign for old technology.
QA essentials for deploying new IT systems
10 August, 2010 by Nick Finlayson*
Thorough quality assurance is crucial to effectively deploying new IT systems. Nick Finlayson, Capgemini Australia’s Head of Testing Services, discusses how to choose the right outsourced testing partner for your organisation.
Themes for Microsoft's Tech.Ed
06 August, 2010
Australia’s largest technical education event, Microsoft's Tech.Ed will host more than 2500 IT professionals and developers at the end of August. This year’s theme, ‘Potential Unleashed’, focuses on how IT professionals and software developers can unlock the capabilities in their existing IT investments and innovate with the tools and resources they have today.
Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable to boost network capacity
03 August, 2010
Pacnet, a provider of telecommunication services, and Pacific Fibre have announced plans to jointly build the Pacific Fibre cable, a city-to-city, low-latency subsea fibre-optic cable that will boost connectivity between Australia, New Zealand and the US.
