Network Storage

After unveiling its plans late last year, IBM has introduced its new ready-to-use Blue Cloud computing offerings, enabling corporate data centres to function in a similar fashion to the internet.

The most poorly guarded secret in the optical storage world this week has been the news that Toshiba are expected to pull out of the format dogfight with Sony’s rival Blu-Ray technology after a series of devastating blows.

IBM’s Websphere Application Server, a key building block for Services Orientated Architecture (SOA) has smashed a key industry benchmark for scalability and performance.

The City of Sydney libraries in Glebe, Customs House, Newtown, Ultimo and Haymarket are all up and running with free wireless internet access in a trial designed to test the waters of a European-style implementation on Australian shores.

The office of Shadow Communications Minister, Bruce Billson has released a statement attacking the Labor government’s plan to use the $2 billion Communications Fund to pay for its broadband bills.

Remote monitoring provider, Opengear have scored a major contract with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to provide console servers for use at all Australian posts overseas.

Dimension Data has moved to streamline already acquired database management and consulting services through the buy out of the remaining 49 percent stake in the New Zealand based, SQL Services.

BitMicro have announced the E-Disk Altima Ultra320, combining up to 1.6 Terabytes of SSD storage capacity on an SCSI flash-bred drive.

SanDisk and Toshiba have announced the fruit of their research partnership with the world’s first commercial 16-gigabit, 3-Bit-Per-Cell NAND Flash Chip.

The CSIRO says the initial roll-out of the Earth observation network for monitoring natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region has been activated for 10 emergencies from 7 countries, over the last 12 months.

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