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  • Australia gets tough on spammers

    The Australian parliament has moved a step closer to introducing tough new laws on distributing spam, following a successful meeting between senior industry figures and representatives from the main political parties in Canberra.

  • ERP chief slams takeover merry-go-round

    The president and CEO of ERP vendor AXSone says the current power struggle invloving major ERP companies Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards is causing untold damage to the sector.

  • Further boost for EMC's mid-tier push

    Storage vendor EMC has made another big stride in its assault on the mid-tier market, with the appointment of solutions provider Commander as a reseller for EMC's CLARiiON CX range of products in Australia.

  • HP in five-pronged storage offering

    In what was billed by the company as a move to help companies optimise and more effectively manage their storage systems, Hewlett-Packard unveiled five new storage services.

  • New Legato MD says company needs to get up Down Under

    The newly appointed – and refreshingly frank – managing director of Legato Systems Australia/New Zealand says the storage vendor needs to lift its game in this part of the world to stay in line with the progress the company has made overseas.

  • IBM's role in Lord of the Rings finale

    Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's special effects company Weta Digital has taken delivery of 588 IBM blade servers, to help it create the effects required for the final instalment of the movie trilogy, The Return of the King.

  • NetApp acquires Auspex patent portfolio

    Network Appliance has broadened its technology base through the acquisition of the patent portfolio of stricken storage vendor Auspex Systems. The patent portfolio covers many technologies central to network-attached storage (NAS) systems ...

  • Trio of vendors showcase SCSI technology

    Hewlett-Packard, Seagate and Adaptec have teamed up to debut the prototype version of the Serial Attached SCSI interface that the trio have been working together on, at the CeBIT America trade show in New York.

  • Alphawest secures IM contract with Victorian DoJ

    Australian systems integration specialists Alphawest has won a contract to provide the Victorian Department of Justice with an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), a key component of the Department's overall knowledge management strategy.