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Meg to make her mark with Hurd scale cull.
Customers push for on-shore hosting.
AGIMO prepared to scrap multi-use list if there are no takers.
University of Melbourne fires up kit for OpenStack cloud 
By Liam Tung | May 2, 2012 | Comment Now 
Local OpenStack expertise hard to find.
 
Universities mull public cloud for 100PB data network 
By Liam Tung | May 1, 2012 | Comment Now 
Data centres selected for $50 million project.
 
Photos: Human Services' Hume data centre 
May 1, 2012 | Comment Now 
Department consolidates seven facilities into two.
 
Finance inks $45.6m data centre lease 
By John Hilvert | Apr 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
Only two data centres operational so far on AGIMO’s data centre panel.
 
Google unveils Dropbox-like G Drive 
By Liam Tung | Apr 25, 2012 | Comment Now 
Google Drive revealed, but not available yet.
 
Agencies turn backs on some procurement panels 
By John Hilvert | Apr 24, 2012 | Comment Now 
Little uptake of data centre, print services panels.
 
Microsoft bumps free SkyDrive storage to 7GB 
By Liam Tung | Apr 24, 2012 | Comment Now 
Cloud storage war rages as world waits for Google Drive.
 
Megaupload trial could be dropped 
By Liam Tung | Apr 23, 2012 | Comment Now 
FBI allegedly can't serve foreign company criminal papers.
 
Vic Human Services stuck with 'ad-hoc' info management 
By Ry Crozier | Apr 18, 2012 | Comment Now 
Government rejects $8 million project.
 
New Zealand agencies months away from IaaS 
By Juha Saarinen | Apr 17, 2012 | Comment Now 
Uptake could exceed forecasts, department claims.
 
US Govt irked by MegaUpload's legal team 
By Liam Tung | Apr 16, 2012 | Comment Now 
Conflicts of interest?
 
Sydney universities to co-locate primary data centres 
By Liz Tay | Apr 13, 2012 | Comment Now 
Joint tender seeks host for 36 racks of gear.
 
MegaUpload host demands compensation 
By Liam Tung | Apr 12, 2012 | Comment Now 
Carpathia still stuck three months after Mega takedown.
 
Hollywood bloodlust cripples another filelocker 
By Liam Tung | Apr 5, 2012 | Comment Now 
Wupload disables sharing.
 
EU security agency issues cloud SLA checklist 
By Liam Tung | Apr 4, 2012 | Comment Now 
Guidance for public sector cloud procurement.
 
Federal Government opens up to smaller cloud deals 
By John Hilvert | Apr 3, 2012 | Comment Now 
Develops guidelines for deals worth up to $80,000.
 
Equinix brings expansion plans forward   
By Brett Winterford | Apr 3, 2012 | Comment Now 
Accelerated roadmap fuels Amazonian speculation.
 
Post-MegaUpload Hollywood wants more blood 
By Liam Tung | Apr 2, 2012 | Comment Now 
For '41 billion page views'.
 
Amazon Web Services joins 1000 Genomes Project 
Mar 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
International research effort moves to the public cloud.
 
Google chases e-discovery with Vault 
By Liam Tung | Mar 29, 2012 | Comment Now 
Gmail, chat archive for e-discovery.
 
Technology drives FOI reform proposal 
By John Hilvert | Mar 28, 2012 | Comment Now 
Bring charges in line with IT advances.
 
NICTA validates hot rock algorithms in oil country 
By Ry Crozier | Mar 28, 2012 | Comment Now 
Victorian region selected as test site.
 
Aussie miners confront real-time data deluge 
By Ry Crozier | Mar 27, 2012 | Comment Now 
Rio Tinto's 3D mine the public face for resources' Big Data embrace.
 
Photos: The iTnews Power Panel 
By Brett Winterford | Mar 26, 2012 | Comment Now 
iTnews profiles the executives building Australia's next generation of data centres.
 
Special Report: The iTnews Power Panel 
By Brett Winterford | Mar 23, 2012 | Comment Now 
Profiling the ten executives building Australia's next generation of data centres.
 
NSW Govt to open source digital archives software 
By Ry Crozier | Mar 21, 2012 | Comment Now 
Files to remain in state-owned data centre for hundreds of years.
 
National Archives unveils digitisation strategy 
By John Hilvert | Mar 16, 2012 | Comment Now 
Eyes $200m in annual savings.
 
Metronode readies free-cooled Melbourne data centre 
By Brett Winterford | Mar 7, 2012 | Comment Now 
Modular facility built for capital and power efficiency.
 
IBM touts pragmatic cloud 
By Liz Tay | Mar 6, 2012 | Comment Now 
Continuous improvement is 'consistently boring'.
 
Health CIO pushes for system consolidation 
By Liz Tay | Feb 29, 2012 | Comment Now 
Pools application and data silos for a department-wide view.
 
Ninefold unveils enterprise Dropbox-like service 
By Ry Crozier | Feb 28, 2012 | Comment Now 
Bundled with management software.
 
Dell acquires backup provider AppAssure 
By Liam Tung | Feb 26, 2012 | Comment Now 
Points fangs at Symantec, CommVault.
 
Surf lifesavers move custom apps to cloud 
By Liz Tay | Feb 23, 2012 | Comment Now 
One million personal records to move.
 
Ninefold outage disables server provisioning 
By Ry Crozier | Feb 21, 2012 | Comment Now 
Spurs investment in second availability zone.
 
Microsoft SkyDrive app to take on iCloud 
By Liam Tung | Feb 21, 2012 | Comment Now 
DropBox doppelganger to come pre-integrated with Windows 8 apps.
 
US shoots Megaupload 'file locker' defence 
By Liam Tung | Feb 20, 2012 | Comment Now 
Majority just downloaded, says Justice Department.
 
Microsoft slashes SQL Azure pricing 
By Liam Tung | Feb 16, 2012 | Comment Now 
Giants slice and dice cloud prices.
 
Hiring strategy vital to government IT transformation 
By John Hilvert | Feb 14, 2012 | Comment Now 
Former US CIO suggests hardline approach to IT staffing.
 
Scientists tout super-fast hard drives 
By Liz Tay | Feb 10, 2012 | Comment Now 
No magnetic field needed for new data recording method.
 
Microsoft eases Exchange to cloud migrations 
By Ry Crozier | Feb 9, 2012 | Comment Now 
PST Capture tool aimed at Office365 and Exchange 2010.
 
Facebook details custom data centre risks 
By Liam Tung | Feb 3, 2012 | Comment Now 
Shines light on the $1 billion beast.
 
Accenture wins Health data warehouse deal 
By John Hilvert | Feb 3, 2012 | Comment Now 
HP servers chosen over mainframe.
 
Microsoft pounces on Google privacy price 
By Liam Tung | Feb 2, 2012 | Comment Now 
Redmond says it puts people first, Google fires back.
 
Google's privacy changes: the silo breaker 
By Liam Tung | Jan 31, 2012 | Comment Now 
Simpler privacy that paying customers won't face.
 
25PB Megaupload trove may be trashed Thursday 
By Liam Tung | Jan 31, 2012 | Comment Now 
Updated: Will the hosts carry that data for long?
 
Pirates of Catalonia to sue FBI over Megaupload 
By Liam Tung | Jan 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
Class action brewing for legitimate Megaupload users.
 
EU's tough privacy laws face uphill battle 
By Liam Tung | Jan 27, 2012 | Comment Now 
Microsoft, Google, Britain irked by EU 'forget me' proposal.
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