Australia will host a local chapter of the international Cloud Security Alliance to provide a Australia/New Zealand voice to the global Cloud secuity advocacy group.

Australia may be recognised as the most virtualized country in the world, but it is yet to harness the data centre modularity required to prepare for Cloud services, according to analyst firm IDC.

Australian businesses must prepare to share more information with customers as business intelligence (BI) evolves, according to software company Teradata.

Cloud services provider, Salesforce.com, has confirmed reports that it is planning to build an Australian data centre.

The A/NZ Biometrics Institute is looking at the future of biometrics and seeing if community perceptions about Big Brother have changed with its latest industry survey.

Companies have more to fear when it comes to security within its four walls than from outside because of complex security policies and an experience generation gap, believes one industry expert.

From an initial short list, the Australian Government has announced the six vendors who have made the data centre migration panel.

Google Australia has moved to reassure Australians that any future Street View mapping will comply with privacy laws and not collect Wi-Fi data.

Financial fraud, identity theft and environmental disasters lean more heavily on Australians’ minds than national security threats, according to a Unisys report.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has announced plans to join mainland trials of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Armidale, NSW to improve the performance of the network.

A war is raging right now in cyberspace and Australians need to arm themselves accordingly against online criminals, according to one expert.

Malicious emails took the lead from spam as the biggest cyber threat in Australia during April as targeted attacks continued to rise.

Local chief information officers and IT managers would be wise to take a closer look at their service-level agreements with Cloud providers following the Amazon EC2 service outage in eastern United States over the weekend.

Outages to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings over the weekend have received plenty of global coverage, but they left at least one Australian business frustrated.

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