• Vocus acquires NZ data centre operator Maxnet

  By Hamish Barwick | 22 May, 2012 12:16

  Vocus Communications (ASX: VOC) has entered a binding agreement to acquire New Zealand-based data centre and Cloud provider, Maxnet, for a sum of $A7.3 million (NZ$9.5 million)

• In pictures: Fujitsu celebrates data centre re-opening with sake

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 May, 2012 16:23

  The Victorian Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips, and Fujitsu executives took the Japanese approach and broke open a barrel of sake to toast the $60 million upgrade of Fujitsu’s Tier III data centre in Noble Park, Melbourne.

• Fujitsu invests $60m in Melbourne data centre upgrade

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 May, 2012 15:36

  Data centre provider, Fujitsu, has spent $60 million adding a fourth data hall to its 6,700 metre Tier III facility in Noble Park, Melbourne, with the option of adding a further two data halls in the future if customer demand warrants it.

• Pacnet embarks on SYCS1 expansion

  By Hamish Barwick | 10 May, 2012 16:29

  Data centre and telecommunications provider, Pacnet, has started the second phase of expansion at its Sydney CloudSpace1 (SYCS1) data centre as part of its long-term strategy to be the third largest data centre operator in Asia Pacific by 2019.

• Toyota Australia ramps up IT transformation projects

  By Hamish Barwick | 17 April, 2012 16:14

  Auto maker, Toyota Australia, is in the closing stages of a major IT modernisation initiative which will see the company replace data centre hardware, migrate to Windows 7 and iPad/iPhone trials.

• New at Disney: It's a Data Center World After All

  By Robert Lemos | 08 February, 2010 03:08

  Visitors to Disney's Epcot Center in Orlando can walk around the world, stopping at pavilions that aim to give them a taste of other countries. Now, Disney and IBM hope to give visitors a unique look at the information technology that delivers the modern world's everyday necessities as well.

• Five Lessons from a Data Center's Crisis of Capacity

  By Robert Lemos | 16 October, 2009 02:31

  When the data centre neared its failure point, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory embarked on a project to revamp facilities without breaking the budget. Consider these practical lessons from the edge of failure.

• EMC heats up competition with data center big four

  By Kevin Fogarty | 10 July, 2009 02:29

  EMC took square aim at the "big four" data center management software players-HP, IBM, CA and BMC- this week when it launched Ionix. The new Ionix business unit and brand name are designed to make more noise about what analysts call an under-appreciated set of broad capabilities in data-center management tools.

• How and why to create data destruction policies

  By Mark Grossman and Tate Stickles | 24 June, 2009 05:10

  We are collecting data at ever-increasing rates as the costs of data storage go down. Why get rid of our beloved data when we can always buy more storage space? Some companies like Google love collecting and working with data, and these companies will rarely or never get rid of their data. But odds are your company is not like Google and does not need all of that old data. This column will focus on crafting an effective data destruction policy.

• HP vs. Cisco: A data center smackdown looms?

  By Kevin Fogarty | 12 June, 2009 03:48

  Despite an overwhelming dominance of the networking business, Cisco has a target painted on its back, in the eyes of Hewlett-Packard.

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