• New ASX data centre to open in February

  By Hamish Barwick | 25 January, 2012 12:37

  The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has announced that its Sydney-based data centre will be open for equity trading from 6 February 2012.

• OBT establishes Melbourne point of presence

  By Hamish Barwick | 13 December, 2011 11:47

  Australian private Cloud services company, OBT, has increased its disaster recovery offering customers in Melbourne a second point of presence (PoP).

• iiNet launches business Cloud offering, partners with VMware

  By Lisa Banks | 30 November, 2011 14:19

  iiNet has unveiled its latest Cloud offering, which is aimed at small to medium businesses (SMB).

• Primus joins Federal Govt data centre panel

  By Chloe Herrick | 16 November, 2011 12:05

  Primus Australia has jumped on board the Australian Government Information Management Office’s (AGIMO) Data Centre Facilities Panel as the agency makes its final additions to the panel.

• NextDC gets green light for Sydney data centre

  By Chloe Herrick | 14 November, 2011 15:27

  Data centre operator NextDC (ASX: NXT) has been given the go-ahead to kick off construction on its latest data centre in Sydney, S1, which was initially announced back in March.

• 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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