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Coding school aims to address Sydney startups' skills shortage

What Australia really needs is more coders, according to Danila Davidson.

By Rohan Pearce | 12 March, 2013 10:44

Tags: ruby on rails, startups, programming, ruby

Drupal 8: Re-architecting for world domination

Drupal 8 will be the open-source project's "boldest release to date", according to Drupal's creator, Dries Buytaert. The new version of Drupal is due at the end of the year or "whenever it's ready" and includes significant behind-the-scenes changes, such as the incorporation of elements of the Symfony2 Web framework.

By Rohan Pearce | 11 March, 2013 13:41

Tags: open source, cms, content management, drupal

Australian Antarctic Division eyes storage refresh

The Australian Antarctic Division is seeking to upgrade its network storage system. The scientific organisation, which is a division of the federal department of the environment, is grappling with an explosion of data, with production data growing at rate of 60 per cent per year since 2007.

By Rohan Pearce | 07 March, 2013 17:02

Tags: storage

Australian public Cloud market to hit $3.2 billion this year: Gartner

Gartner is predicting that spending on public cloud services in Australia will grow 23.08 per cent this year, reaching US$3.2 billion.

By Rohan Pearce | 06 March, 2013 13:03

Tags: Cloud, cloud computing

TNS taps AAPT for EFTPOS network resilience

Transaction Network Services has partnered with AAPT to provide what the company believes is the only dual-carrier network for card-based payment transactions in Australia.

By Rohan Pearce | 05 March, 2013 16:33

Tags: payment processing, Eftpos, banks

IBM bets on open cloud

IBM has thrown its weight behind open cloud standards, announcing that all future cloud services and software would be based on "open cloud architecture". As a first step the company today unveiled a new private cloud tool, SmartCloud Orchestrator, based on the open source OpenStack project.

By Rohan Pearce | 05 March, 2013 15:34

Tags: open source, Cloud, IBM, cloud computing

Profile IT: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Sydney's Mardi Gras is the highest profile annual event in Australia for members of the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities. And although the event has its origins as a political protest, and some parade participants still take aim at the inequalities and violence suffered by non-heterosexual people in Australia, it's also big business.

By Rohan Pearce | 01 March, 2013 15:40

Tags: virtualization, Cloud, Managed Services, cloud computing, virtual desktops

A bright future for Linux in Australia: IDC

“Linux is here in the prime time,” according to IDC Australia research director Matt Oostveen. The analyst, speaking at the Sydney leg of SuseConf Australia, said that the operating system is “accelerating in the Australian marketplace”.

By Rohan Pearce | 27 February, 2013 13:52

Tags: open source, Linux, Cloud, cloud computing

iiNet adds Budii to hardware range

iiNet has taken the wraps off the latest addition to its hardware range: the Budii. The device combines a Wi-Fi router with a tablet and a smartphone style Android handset.

By Rohan Pearce | 26 February, 2013 15:32

Tags: iiNet

Deploying security-analytics-as-a-service to dissect network attacks

Sydney-based start-up Packetloop has gone live with its security-analytics-as-a-service offering. The service came out of private beta earlier this month.

By Rohan Pearce | 22 February, 2013 16:24

Tags: security, cloud computing

Internode crowned 'home ISP of the year'

iiNet subsidiary Internode has taken out 'home ISP of the year' in the Roy Morgan Research Customer Satisfaction Awards for the second year running.

By Rohan Pearce | 21 February, 2013 09:55

Tags: internode, iiNet

Drupal Association to focus on governance, D8 launch

Holly Ross joined the Drupal Association on 1 February as its executive director. Techworld Australia caught up with Ross at DrupalCon Sydney seven days into her new role to chat about her background and what she sees as the top priorities for the DA in the next period.

By Rohan Pearce | 19 February, 2013 11:25

Tags: open source, Drupal Association, content managment system, drupal

False sense of security pervades DR approaches

Australian businesses are aware of the importance of disaster recovery planning, but their reliance on manual approaches means that organisations risk falling short of target recovery times if an incident occurs, according to research released today.

By Rohan Pearce | 18 February, 2013 08:50

Tags: disaster recovery

From zero to hero: Suncorp's Drupal 'leap of faith'

For Chuong Vu and the other members of Suncorp Group's new media team, the decision to standardise on Drupal to manage the banking and insurance corporation's Web presence was not a decision taken lightly.

By Rohan Pearce | 13 February, 2013 16:34

Tags: open source, DrupalCon Sydney, drupal

New telco Yatango bets on social, bill-shock blues

New Australian telco Yatango Mobile is betting on social networking integration and a high-level of user control over spend to differentiate itself in the crowded mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) space.

By Rohan Pearce | 12 February, 2013 12:30

Tags: mobility, Telco, telcos, optus

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