Enterprise software developer Red Hat has jumped in to the virtualisation game with the announcement that it will be working with the likes of AMD, Intel, Network Appliance and XenSource to create an Open Source virtualisation environment.

SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) ANZ announces a new board line-up in time to drive the SNW Show.

The National Archives will be the first government department to move to the OpenDocument file format as the Digital Preservation team plans to migrate its current Xena preservation software to the OpenOffice 2.0 suite.

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) supplier LSI Logic has demonstrated its first SAS switch. The company says this will open up new options in building low-cost, high-performance storage networks

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software provider Objective has announced that Powerlink Queensland has selected it to provide an organisation-wide ECM solution.

Storage technology has been tipped to have a “breakthrough” year by industry analysts IDC, with small to medium businesses (SMBs) driving growth as they take up broadband and come to terms with data retention regulations.

InPhase Technologies has broken the data density record and used holographic storage techniques to cram 515Gbits of data into one square inch.

Storage startup Pillar Data has announced plans to introduce new features to its Axiom storage such as the ability to power down idle drives.

The Australian Government has stepped up alongside the U.S. and asked that any decision regarding the proposed .xxx top level domain be delayed until more evidence of its benefits is presented.

Hong Kong’s Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) has publicly apologised after an electronic records leak exposed thousands of confidential records online.