Telecommunications giants Alcatel and Lucent have announced an agreement to merge in a U.S.$13.4 billion stock deal, creating the second-largest ICT company in the world.
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.
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.
