Alphawest has won the electronic document and records management contract to support the finance and payroll processing for 130 State Government agencies serviced by Shared Corporate Service Centres.

A new secure security system has been created to protect banks from the attempts of hackers to break into their computer systems by alerting administrators to the slightest sign of snooping.

IBM and Cisco Systems have created integrated solutions designed to reduce the damage and disruption that viruses, worms and other security vulnerabilities can cause to networks and minimise the impact they have on day-to-day business operations.

The IDC recently released a report called: "Australia Broadband Market Update: Seven Steps to Move from Backwater to Leader, 4Q04", and it predicts that by the end of 2004, 1 in 4 Internet access users in Australia will be connected to broadband.

Iron Mountain has bought Connected Corporation in a bid to help protect its customers' through the implementation of compliant information management and new archiving and recovery services.

Novell has promised to use its patent powers to protect its open source products against the threat of legal action from third parties in a bid to keep the momentum of growth going.

The road to utility computing and the elements to be added along the way formed the core of the discussion at the first Veritas Vision conference to be held in Australia.

SAN Health, provided by Brocade Communication Systems, has been well received by companies around the world since its conception in Australia, freeing companies up from having to manually optimise and maintain their SANs.

EMC Corporation has bought Dantz Development Corporation so that it can offer backup and recovery software and services to small and midsize businesses in need of data protection solutions.

IBM has gone into battle with EMC and Hitachi this week by releasing its highest capacity storage arrays to help organisations grow with ever increasing storage demands.