Steve Vamos, the chief executive of the ninemsn Internet portal will take over the helm of Microsoft Australia.

As part of a large-scale project to digitise offender photographs NSW Police department has issued a tender for a digital imaging capture system that will enable them to speed up making these images available to mobile custody officers.

Auspex and StorageTek have cross-certified their respective hardware to provide a disk-based networked storage solution.

Brocade Systems has bought a small switch manufacturer called Rhapsody in an effort to combat Cisco's entry to the storage networking industry.

IBM has signalled the importance of storage to its server business by merging the two divisions and promoting its storage guru to head the group.

Iomega has added several units with 720GB capacity to its network attached storage range.

Quantum has claimed its new DLT tape drive offers 45 per cent more capacity at the same prices as older models.

A new switch in the SilkWorm range from Brocade Systems will fill the gap between its low-end and high-end hardware for building storage area networks.

Brocade might have thought its acquisition of Rhapsody this week would have earned a gold star from the stock market, but concerns about competition with Cisco meant otherwise.

The latest Capture products from FileNet are now available on the Australian market from the local division in Sydney.