Symantec has announced the winners for its 2008 Australia and New Zealand Visionary Awards, with IT Leaders from Telstra and HealthAlliance NZ taking home honours.

Lexar is showing off its latest USB flash drive, saying the Secure II + Jumpdrive offers high mobile storage capacity while retaining security, enabling businesses to backup, transport and share large amounts of data.

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has released new research showing that medium-sized businesses will be prioritising virtualisation, information management and security in 2009.

Further extending its cloud storage capabilities, Amazon has announced the launch of its new Elastic Block Store (EBS), a persistent storage feature for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

To medium-sized companies, as a business issue information security is more important than reducing costs, so says a new survey from Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions.

According to calculations by the BBC, in the year leading up to April 2008 the UK government lost personal information of four million of its citizens.

Due to surging demand, IBM has committed US$300 (AU$342) million to the expansion of its business continuity and resiliency services in ten countries around the world.

With data storage levels and the popularity of virtualisation growing rapidly, Idealstor says that it can ease VMware backups with its new removable disk to disk solution.

Fuji Xerox Printers has announced the introduction of a printer utility that it says can improve the usability, administration and printing in a Citrix XenApp environment.

Salesforce.com has given its online customer relationship management (CRM) solution a big boost with the US$31 (AU$35.6) million acquisition of knowledge management specialist InStranet.