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Marketing is driving big data adoption: IDC

IT decision makers are not the only drivers for big data adoption as the marketing department is also playing a large part in this, according to IDC's Australia telecommunications group associate director, Dustin Kehoe.

By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 13:47

Tags: IDC Australia, Dustin Kehoe, big data, marketing IT

Big data projects a focus for Australian mid-market: IDC

Big data is not only widely used by large enterprises in Australia as the mid-market is also taking advantage of it to make decisions faster, according to new research from IDC Australia.

By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 11:17

Tags: IDC, Shayum Rahim, IDC Australia, big data analytics, big data

Cisco, Brocade, Riverbed, HP among Best of Interop finalists

Nearly two dozen products have been selected as Best of Interop finalists, with winners set to be announced on May 7 during the annual Interop Las Vegas conference.

By Network World staff | 17 April, 2013 18:05

Tags: Amazon Web Services, Configuration / maintenance, Dell, OCZ Technology, Riverbed Technology, hardware systems, Data Center, Arista Networks, HP

ICT upgrade drives Yokohama Tyre to cloud

Yokahama Tyre Australia is moving to the cloud following a recent ICT upgrade, according to the company’s IT manager, Duance Hum.

By Adam Bender | 17 April, 2013 11:02

Tags: Yokohoma Tyre Australia, NTT Communications, ICT, Networking, security, Cloud, IT manager, Data Centre, internet

Startup Armor5 debuts with cloud-based security for mobile devices

Startup Armor5 makes its debut Wednesday with a cloud-based security and management service for mobile devices that works without needing client-based software.

By Ellen Messmer | 17 April, 2013 05:51

Tags: mobile device cloud security, Networking, Salesforce.com, wireless, Armor5, IT management, cloud computing, internet, consumerization of IT, BYOD, consumer electronics, security, Cloud, smartphones, vpn, Forrester Research

Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services

Microsoft is adding to its Azure cloud service offerings and lowering prices in order to attract customers who may already have chosen another service provider, experts say, but it might not be enough.

By Tim Greene | 16 April, 2013 22:56

Tags: Microsoft Azure AWS, Amazon Web Services, Windows, operating systems, cloud computing, internet, Microsoft Azure AWS price cuts, Gartner, Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services, IDC, Google, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Web Services, Cloud, software

Harvard global grid computing project will help create printable solar cells

Harvards Clean Energy Project is conducting a study on millions of potential chemical structures and has identified next-generation organic solar cell material.

By Lucas Mearian | 16 April, 2013 20:49

Tags: Data storage, IBM, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems

Microsoft Azure enters price war with Amazon Web Services

Microsoft is dropping prices for Azure Cloud Services and for Azure virtual machines to match those of Amazon Web Services and implies that it will cut the prices of other Azure offerings as well to match those of AWS.

By Tim Greene | 16 April, 2013 17:02

Tags: Amazon Web Services, Azure discounts, Microsoft Amazon Web Services pricing, Windows, software, operating systems, cloud computing, internet, Microsoft Azure price war, Google, Microsoft, Azure price cuts, Cloud

Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, called Savanna, that will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service.

By Joab Jackson | 16 April, 2013 15:25

Tags: open source, HortonWorks, Mirantis, software, Red Hat, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services

Hitachi Data Systems finds new A/NZ country manager

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has recruited a new Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands country manager from its operations in Europe.

By Hamish Barwick | 16 April, 2013 09:51

Tags: storage, appointments, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)

Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution

Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program.

By Joab Jackson | 15 April, 2013 21:05

Tags: open source, software, Red Hat, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services

Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software

Dell says it's hoping to move closer to the forefront of data center technology with the release today of a suite of new products designed for software-defined networking.

By Jon Gold | 15 April, 2013 16:59

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, hardware systems, Network Virtualization, Data Center, OpenStack, VMware, LAN & WAN, data center infrastructure, virtualization, Dell, SDN, Microsoft

Cisco extends Microsoft support in datacentre portfolio

Cisco last week extended its datacentre product line to support Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align their respective datacentre and Cloud architectures for joint customers.

By Jim Duffy | 15 April, 2013 13:55

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Windows, hardware systems, Data Center, operating systems, cloud computing, internet, hypervisor, server, Windows Server 2012, virtualization, Microsoft, Cloud, cisco, software

OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly

By Ted Samson | 15 April, 2013 13:12

Tags: IBM, Red Hat, cloud computing, netapp, internet, open source software, OpenStack, Oracle, VMware, Hewlett-Packard, emc, HP, Dell, Microsoft

In pictures: ASX Liquidity Centre

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) took the media on a tour of its Australian Liquidity Centre data centre in Gore Hill, Sydney. The ALC provides co-location services and data centre space to customers, allowing them to place trading equipment in cabinets within the same facility as the ASX and the ASX 24 primary matching engines.

By Hamish Barwick | 15 April, 2013 10:20

Tags: Australian Liquidity Centre, Sydney, data centre cooling, data centres, ASX, Gore Hill, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)

Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers

Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies.

By Joab Jackson | 15 April, 2013 04:02

Tags: open source, software, cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, rackspace

New datacentre survey shows mediocre results for energy efficiency

A new survey suggests that large datacentres might be less energy efficient than was previously thought.

By James Niccolai | 12 April, 2013 17:31

Tags: hardware systems, entertainment, Digital Realty Trust

Startup aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs

SDNs aren't just for data center networks, despite the best-use-case-scenario arguments for network virtualization and flow management pervading the industry.

By Jim Duffy | 12 April, 2013 12:23

Tags: SaaS, automation, IT management, cloud computing, Software as a service, internet, software defined networking, LAN & WAN, consumerization of IT, BYOD, management, OpenFlow, Traffic management, SDN, Google, vpn, wan optimization, VMware, Cisco routers, WAN automation, Networking

Why servers should be seen like cows, not puppies

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing is fundamentally about managing hardware resources, and the CTO of OpenStack company Piston Cloud Computing has an interesting way to think about the issue.

By Brandon Butler | 11 April, 2013 19:21

Tags: Piston cloud, Microsoft, Cloud, Piston Cloud Computing, cloud computing, internet, OpenStack, cows and puppies cloud

New services bolster Microsoft Azure as key enterprise cloud management system

Microsoft is pushing Azure cloud service to the 5,000 attendees at its management conference this week, encouraging them to take advantage of the system now for specific tasks but to keep in mind that it fits into a full-blown hybrid-cloud framework that may become more attractive to them over time.

By Tim Greene | 11 April, 2013 15:26

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Microsoft, Cloud, hardware systems, Data Center, cloud computing, internet

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