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  • CeBIT 2012: NSW Cancer Council begins Cloud journey

    Faced with growing data and outdated infrastructure, the not-for-profit organisation, New South Wales Cancer Council, made the decision to move some of its business functions to a private Cloud in early 2012.

  • CIO Breakfast: The Future of Computing

    Integrated, agile and transformational IT: Where does your IT department stand?

  • Cloud exit strategy 101

    Cloud computing has been touted by vendors and bean counters as a cost effective way to reduce overheads and the need for physical IT infrastructure, but having a Cloud exit strategy is also essential if it all turns dark and stormy.

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    Cloud to add $3b to Aus economy: KPMG

    A new report by accounting firm KPMG takes a look at the Cloud in Australia and estimates more than $3 billion could be added to the nation’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) in 10 years, as well as drive growth of start-ups and small businesses.

  • Data sovereignty awareness lacking in Australia: Security experts

    While the US Patriot Act may make many headlines for the legal authority it bestows on US agencies to access data held in foreign countries, Australian companies need to be aware of similar legislation in both the US and Australia, according to security industry experts.

  • Australia's Cloud policy ruffles the United States' feathers

    Australian government agencies are developing a Cloud framework for government agencies to follow, but a stance against storing classified data in off-shore locations has garnered ire from the US.

  • Tracey Brunstrom & Hammond migrates to the Cloud

    Project management and scheduling services company, Tracey Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH), has moved to the Cloud to better enable the company to handle fast growth and major projects.

  • Telstra investigates growth areas

    Telstra is investigating new growth areas opening up because of the National Broadband Network (NBN) such as Cloud computing, media asset management and expansion across Asia.

  • Big Data is just hype, according to a Dell vice president

    Big Data might be one of the more common buzzwords doing the rounds, but it's nothing more than hype -- at least for now -- according to Dell’s vice president of Enterprise Solutions, Asia Pacific and Japan.

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    How to avoid the perils of virtualization and Cloud stall

    Technologies like virtualization and cloud computing promise enormous leaps in efficiency and flexibility, but they can lead organizations into a quagmire if they don't plan properly for the transition, says Bill Hurley, CIO, CTO and executive vice president of Westcon Group. Without proper planning, organizations can stall in the midst of their transitions to virtualized environments or the cloud, finding themselves with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward.

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  • Review: Desktop virtualization made easy

    Ever since VMware coined the term, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has conjured images of large data centers, beefy servers, centralized storage, and complex software stacks. It's a given that each VDI installation requires numerous servers, software packages, and storage systems in order to provide desktop virtualization for more than a small handful of users, so VDI just has to be both expensive and complicated to deploy. Right?

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