• Optus Business to debut new Cloud, mobility services

  By Dylan Bushell-Embling | 24 May, 2012 15:00

  Optus Business has revealed plans to expand its portfolio of Cloud computing and enterprise mobility offerings.

• CeBIT 2012: NSW Cancer Council begins Cloud journey

  By Hamish Barwick | 23 May, 2012 14:26

  Faced with growing data and outdated infrastructure, the not-for-profit organisation, New South Wales Cancer Council, made the decision to move some of its business functions to a private Cloud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

• Brocade outlines its SDN approach

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 05:30

  Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the OpenFlow software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series 100Gbps routers as part of a broader SDN strategy.

• Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter?

  By Jim Duffy | 21 May, 2012 20:32

  Despite interoperability trials and demonstrations involving alternative data center fabric standards, a non-standard fabric technology is said by proponents to be at the front of the pack.

• Cloud, BYOD increases need for automated IAM systems

  By Thor Olavsrud | 12 May, 2012 23:25

  Increased adoption of cloud services, combined with the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) phenomenon, is causing identities and access rights to proliferate throughout the enterprise, putting ever-greater stress on organizations to go beyond perimeter defenses to secure access to sensitive information.

• Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync

  By Rick Broida | 11 November, 2010 09:42

  Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?

• How Cloud computing is forcing IT evolution

  By Bernard Golden | 02 March, 2012 03:15

  I had the privilege of chairing the infrastructure track at last week's Cloud Connect conference. Three of the presentations were particularly interesting, offering a good perspective on just how dramatic an effect cloud computing is having on IT. Summed up, the capability and agility of cloud computing is forcing an extremely rapid evolution.

• Guide: How to sync your PC, smartphone, and tablet

  By Loyd Case | 29 September, 2011 23:55

  A few years ago businesspeople carried a laptop on the road, used a desktop PC in the office, and worked on another PC at home. Maybe they had a BlackBerry, too--but only if they were real big shots.

• Cloud security: how to protect your data

  By CSO staff | 14 June, 2011 21:17

  To use Cloud computing securely requires companies to know where their data is stored and who has access to it. Ironically, the reason Cloud is so popular is because organisations don't want to worry about these details.

  So can the issue be solved by adhering to standards? Increasing legislation? Maybe we need a global technical disaster to ‘sober up’ an industry drunk on the power of Moore's Law.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 3

  By James Hutchinson | 30 March, 2011 07:00

  The shortfalls of Google Apps will likely resonate with the inordinate amount of Microsoft shops in the industry. Years of investment in SharePoint developers, Exchange support teams and business processes built around the fickle aspects of Microsoft Office and its ribbon interface cannot be discarded easily. That’s ultimately where Microsoft’s strength is likely to reside. No matter when its Office 365 bundle is released, and despite numerous attempts to forge links between legacy applications and Google Apps, the complexity of a migration for a large organisation would likely be a headache most CIOs are eager to avoid. At least, that can be said for Coca Cola Amatil CIO, Barry Simpson.

• Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 2

  By James Hutchinson | 29 March, 2011 07:00

  Ultimately, some of the problems facing Microsoft’s Cloud strategy are those affecting many of its long-standing product suites. “Clearly Microsoft is trying to back-solve that problem to the legacy product set and clearly that’s problematic,” AAPT’s chief operating officer and effective CIO, David Yuile, says.

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