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  • Information glut costing Australia $3 billion a year: Survey

    Unstructured data coupled with IT outages could be costing the Australian economy up to $3 billion each year, according to storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 29 Nov. 11 08:10

  • Strategies for pruning data in the Cloud

    Year after year, the cost of disk space has plummeted. Since you can pick up a terabyte for $50, it's often seemed a false economy to be careful with storage.

    Written by David Taber • 10 Nov. 11 08:49

  • Jazz Montreux Festival plans 1.2PB archive for 40 years of music

    Forty years worth of performances at Europe's most prestigious jazz festival will soon be stored in a digital archive that will be shared through with students and in cafés around the world.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 18 Oct. 11 21:04

  • OpenWorld 2011: Exadata underpinning Oracle Cloud play

    Oracle is banking that when organisations across the Asia Pacific turn to new infrastructure to support their move to private cloud or launch of public cloud services, bigger equals better.

    Written by Tim Lohman • 05 Oct. 11 09:10

  • Oracle's Big Data Appliance taps growing enterprise need, analysts say

    Oracle's new Big Data Appliance, officially introduced at the OpenWorld2011 conference in San Francisco, should appeal to enterprises looking for more efficient ways to capture, organise and analyse vast amounts of unstructured data.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan • 04 Oct. 11 08:19

  • Alarm sounded on lack of virtualization disaster recovery plans

    Only 22 per cent of CommVault's ANZ customers are backing up their virtual server environments while another 25 per cent do not have a disaster recovery (DR) plan, according to the results of a global survey conducted by the vendor.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 05 Sept. 11 12:12

  • Cloud-based storage improves disaster recovery at Situs

    When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston.

    Written by Megan Santosus • 27 Aug. 11 07:53

  • Enterprise data warehouse key to national health reform

    The federal government’s Department of Health and Ageing is seeking information from suppliers in preparation for the upcoming national health reform enterprise data warehouse (NHR EDW) program.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 03 Aug. 11 10:01

  • IIIS: Big Data driving new trends

    Reality mining, tagging data at its source and Cloud reputation agencies are three of the emerging trends likely to come out of the explosion of ‘Big Data’ delegates at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) have heard.

    Written by Tim Lohman • 02 Aug. 11 13:19

  • National Library to refresh IT infrastructure

    The National Library of Australia (NLA) will refresh its IT infrastructure over a period of four years to keep pace with the growth in digital assets it manages.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 18 July 11 10:07

  • NSW Health calls time on GroupWise, preps Exchange move

    NSW Health has started preparing the consolidation of all its disparate e-mail systems into one Microsoft Exchange environment for some 200,000 end-users across the state government department with the big loser being Novell's GroupWise.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 13 July 11 11:02

  • Home-grown Cloud storage service launched

    Sydney-based Cloud computing provider Ninefold has launched a storage service it claims is the first local equivalent of Amazon Web Services’ S3 offering and announced its inclusion into the jclouds multi-cloud library.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 28 June 11 10:08

  • Understanding storage costs for desktop virtualisation

    If you are about to start considering a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project, be advised: You need to really understand what your storage costs will be up front.

    Written by Eric Burgener • 18 June 11 05:31

  • Prime to digitise media archives

    Television and radio broadcaster Prime Media has embarked on a digitisation project for its content over the next seven years.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 15 June 11 14:01

  • Power company opts for DR in the Cloud

    Eastern states gas and electricity supplier Australian Power & Gas has gone with a Cloud provider for disaster recovery as a service alleviating the need to built out its own infrastructure.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 19 May 11 12:00

  • National Library updates Trove search engine

    The National Library of Australia has announced version 4.0 of its Trove search engine which now crawls millions of journal articles.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 17 May 11 15:20

  • Lawmakers: New data protection regulations needed

    The U.S. Congress needs to pass new data security regulations for businesses in response to recent data breaches at Sony, Epsilon and other companies, members of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee said Wednesday.

    Written by Grant Gross • 05 May 11 12:56

  • Open source PostgreSQL 9.1 beta released

    The PostgreSQL open source database project has released the first beta of version 9.1, which its developers say has more new features than appeared with the 9.0 release, including synchronous replication to help prevent data loss.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 03 May 11 00:00

  • Australia lagging in government Cloud adoption: Ovum

    Australia lags behind the rest of the world in government Cloud adoption, according to analyst firm, Ovum.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 18 March 11 15:00

  • Ultimate hoarding: Study finds mankind could store 295 exabytes of data

    University of Southern California researchers have put a number on how much information humans can store, communicate and compute: 295 exabytes, give or a take a zettabyte.

    Written by Bob Brown • 13 Feb. 11 00:31
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