Hitachi Data Systems has announced the opening of its Asia Pacific Deal Operations Centre, a Malaysian based centre offering storage solutions for 12 countries including Australia and New Zealand.

Oracle is promising to help organisations address their audit needs in response to growing regulatory obligations and protected against internal threats with its new Audit Vault solution.

Sun is scaling up its efforts for secure online identity management, announcing a new initiative to support OpenID.

Gartner analysts have declared virtualisation the most significant technology for IT infrastructures but says it automation that will be the ‘next big thing’ as organisations look for better management and tackle the ‘virtualisation sprawl.’

Cabinet NG has announced a new automated document management system which it says turns accounting workflows into efficient document management environments.

CeBIT Sydney 2007 provided the perfect landscape for SA based Legend Performance Technology to unveil the industry’s first 1-Terabyte single 3.5 inch hard disk drive.

The US Internet2 network suffered a interesting outage between Boston and New York last week, when a homeless man accidentally set fire to communications cables.

Netapp has announced its support of Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux, promising more flexibility, reliability and simplified data centre management.

A new remote desktop hosting service has kicked off its beta test this week, illustrating not only how flexible virtualisation can be, but also how rapidly online applications are increasing in maturity and popularity.

The Nortel /Microsoft relationship has made significant local headway with the launch of their unified customer road show and the unveiling of plans to launch the first Asian Collaboration Centre in Australia.