Servers & Storage

Fujitsu A/NZ and VMWare agree on OEM servers

Fujitsu A/NZ and VMWare agree on OEM servers

Virtual software vendor VMware and Fujitsu A/NZ have combined forces to bring out a VMware bundled product with Fujitsu’s Primergy Servers.

Lilia Guan May 22 2008, 12:08PM Mobility
EMC backs-up resellers

EMC backs-up resellers

Storage giant EMC Corporation has released a number of new backup offerings to the channel, which they claim will help ease the burden data centres face in dealing with the ever-expanding digital universe.

Lilia Guan May 21 2008, 2:03PM Hardware
Aussie Govt. mail server targeted for attack

Aussie Govt. mail server targeted for attack

Global security vendor MessageLabs has claimed its heuristic scanner - Skeptic - has intercepted a Trojan specifically targeted at Australian domains.
Lilia Guan May 19 2008, 2:52PM Security
Asus to ship all motherboards with Linux

Asus to ship all motherboards with Linux

Instant-on Linux from flash memory? Sounds mighty nice, if you're willing to forgo a "real" operating system.
Egan Orion May 16 2008, 8:02AM Hardware
Storage vendors turn up the volume

Storage vendors turn up the volume

Storage vendors are lining up new systems designed to help information-intensive enterprises that need to store petabytes of data.
Dave Bailey May 13 2008, 7:50AM Hardware
Dell’s building-block approach to virtualisation needs software support

Dell’s building-block approach to virtualisation needs software support

Dell has launched two new servers that have been designed to simplify virtualisation.
Liz Tay May 7 2008, 7:08AM Hardware
Opinion: Vista schmista, Telstra schmelstra

Opinion: Vista schmista, Telstra schmelstra

Well, we just spent the weekend figuring out what went wrong with our plans to setup a client's new branch office using Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista workstations. The gig was supposed to be finished Friday, but we didn't get out of town until Sunday night. And it wasn't the applications or the network that bit us in the bum this time. No, it was the printers. And Telstra.
Ian Yates May 5 2008, 1:22PM Collaboration
Kroll Ontrack warns of virtualisation vulnerability

Kroll Ontrack warns of virtualisation vulnerability

As vendors continue to tout the benefits of virtualisation, Kroll Ontrack warns that server consolidation can cause considerable fallout in the event of a system failure.
Leanne Mezrani Apr 23 2008, 5:36PM Collaboration
Quest expands unified comms portfolio

Quest expands unified comms portfolio

Quest Software has broadened its range of unified communications support products for Microsoft's business applications. The company’s MessageStats and Active Roles Server programs have been updated to fully support Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
Staff Writers Apr 23 2008, 4:28PM Software
VMware first quarter revenue up by 69 percent

VMware first quarter revenue up by 69 percent

Virtualisation vendor VMware has released its first quarter revenues for 2008. The strong financial results are attributed to increased adoption of server virtualisation as the technology gains momentum in the global market, claimed VMware.
Leanne Mezrani Apr 23 2008, 2:13PM Collaboration
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 opinion: Service pack me

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 opinion: Service pack me

So we’re going to get another service pack for SQL Server 2005 after all. Despite SQL Server 2008 being already a release candidate and expected to ship some time after June this year, Microsoft knows there will be droves of users waiting to jump from SQL Server 2000 to 2005.
Ian Yates Apr 18 2008, 4:48PM Software
Altech joins Hitachi Global Storage Technologies as distie

Altech joins Hitachi Global Storage Technologies as distie

Australian distributor Altech, has broadened its product range after signing up to authorised distributor for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ (Hitachi GST) hard disk drives (HDDs) in Australia and New Zealand.
Lilia Guan Apr 18 2008, 1:31PM Data centre
Adelaide’s City of West Torrens goes virtual

Adelaide’s City of West Torrens goes virtual

Australian IT architecture design and integration company – Technical Architecture Solutions (TAS) – is in talks with Adelaide’s City of West Torrens to work on virtual desktops for the council. TAS completed a virtualised server environment for the council in January this year.
Lilia Guan Apr 17 2008, 1:39PM Software
Dell unveils Opteron quad-core servers

Dell unveils Opteron quad-core servers

Dell has announced that it will use new AMD processors for its PowerEdge server range.
Shaun Nichols Apr 16 2008, 2:13PM Hardware
Studying the 2008 server scene

Studying the 2008 server scene

Martin Gregory provides his views on the top server trends expected to hit the Australian market this year.
Staff Writers Apr 15 2008, 5:03PM Collaboration
IBM proposes the death of flash memory and hard drives

IBM proposes the death of flash memory and hard drives

IBM’s Almaden Laboratory has been outlining a new form of memory that it says will replace both flash memory storage and platter-based hard drives.

Iain Thomson Apr 14 2008, 7:55AM Hardware
Racetrack memory to change the storage landscape within a decade

Racetrack memory to change the storage landscape within a decade

Advancements in the development of spintronics-based storage technology could provide a basis for lightning-fast devices capable of holding a hundred times more data in the same amount of space than is possible today.
Liz Tay Apr 12 2008, 6:21AM Data centre
IBM buys FilesX

IBM buys FilesX

IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FilesX, a privately held storage software company based in Massachusetts and Israel.

Robert Jaques Apr 11 2008, 12:17PM Software
HP warns of infected hardware

HP warns of infected hardware

HP has issued a security notice after USB keys shipped with some of its ProLiant servers were found to have been infected with viruses.

Iain Thomson Apr 11 2008, 7:07AM Security
Avnet signs new storage partner

Avnet signs new storage partner

Avnet Technology Solutions has been selected as a value-added distributor of Data Domain’s deduplication storage products for the Australian channel.

Mitchell Smith Apr 10 2008, 11:36AM Data centre

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