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BigPond emails will be stored overseas 
By Brett Winterford | 2 days ago | Comment Now 
Some 4.2 million email accounts will fall under foreign jurisdictions.
 
UXC lands Fortescue, Rio Tinto comms work 
By Ry Crozier | 4 days ago | Comment Now 
Snares sub-contracts with camp construction firm.
 
Nicira virtualises the network 
By Liam Tung | 5 days ago | Comment Now 
'Decouples' network from hardware.
 
Rio Tinto makes a case for mine automation 
By Ry Crozier | 6 days ago | Comment Now 
Some jobs to go but 'benefits outweigh costs'.
 
New ASX data centre goes live 
By Liz Tay | 6 days ago | Comment Now 
Gore Hill facility to be 'fully operational' by April.
 
BHP Billiton funds fibre for outback town 
By Ry Crozier | 6 days ago | Comment Now 
New accommodation to be built ahead of planned Olympic Dam expansion.
 
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.
 
Tax board eyes cloud for IT migration 
By John Hilvert | Jan 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
Partial shift off Tax Office infrastructure.
 
Researchers to patent vulnerability search algorithm 
By Liz Tay | Jan 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
Seek commercial partners for network security technology.
 
Defence data centre move slips to November 
By John Hilvert | Jan 30, 2012 | Comment Now 
Further slippages could imperil desktop consolidation.
 
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.
 
Dodo core routers downed 
By James Hutchinson | Jan 24, 2012 | Comment Now 
NSW, Queensland and ACT users affected overnight.
 
Megaupload shutdown unlikely to deter piracy 
Jan 24, 2012 | Comment Now 
Funnels pirate activity back to P2P networks.
 
Locking down Linux.conf.au 
By Sam Gentle | Jan 23, 2012 | Comment Now 
Conference organisers zero in on rogue wireless access points.
 
Four key questions from the 'Mega conspiracy' 
By Brett Winterford | Jan 23, 2012 | Comment Now 
Serious ramifications for all cloud services.
 
Police shut down Megaupload sites 
By Ry Crozier | Jan 20, 2012 | Comment Now 
Hackers strike US Justice Department in retaliation.
 
Wikipedia's SOPA blackout seen by 162 million 
By Liam Tung | Jan 20, 2012 | Comment Now 
Australian web industry mixed on SOPA impact.
 
Photos: UWA installs Fornax supercomputer 
By Liz Tay | Jan 20, 2012 | Comment Now 
Prepares to launch second Pawsey machine in March.
 
Amazon offers a 'big data' test zone 
By Liam Tung | Jan 19, 2012 | Comment Now 
Dynamo database offered as a service.
 
Google slows crawlers for SOPA blackout 
By Ry Crozier | Jan 19, 2012 | Comment Now 
No search ranking penalty for protesting anti-piracy legislation.
 
Microsoft simplifies server management licensing 
By Liam Tung | Jan 18, 2012 | Comment Now 
Offers Release Candidate for System Center 2012.
 
Swinburne, Google target data centre congestion 
By Liz Tay | Jan 17, 2012 | Comment Now 
New networking algorithms to avoid packet loss.
 
Amazon makes cloud play for Windows users 
Jan 17, 2012 | Comment Now 
Free test system gets expansion.
 
Amendments planned for unpopular online piracy bill 
Jan 17, 2012 | Comment Now 
Sources expect DNS blocking to be cut from SOPA.
 
Melbourne IT hit with DDoS legal threat 
By Darren Pauli | Jan 17, 2012 | Comment Now 
Former customer disputes suspension of shared hosting account.
 
Tennis Australia exposes match analytics 
By James Hutchinson | Jan 17, 2012 | Comment Now 
On disaster watch for Open.
 
Human Services resolves Child Support payment glitch 
By Liz Tay | Jan 12, 2012 | Comment Now 
Data transfer issues delay 8000 payments.
 
Alcatel-Lucent lands Wheatstone LNG work 
By Ry Crozier | Jan 11, 2012 | Comment Now 
Wins major Western Australian gas project.
 
NAB arms branch with free wi-fi 
By Ry Crozier | Jan 10, 2012 | Comment Now 
Eyes IT systems to 'sweat' retail spaces.
 
London gets massive free wi-fi zone 
By Liam Tung | Jan 10, 2012 | Comment Now 
Europe's biggest.
 
NextDC starts Perth data centre 
By Ry Crozier | Jan 9, 2012 | Comment Now 
Development gets green light.
 
Codan snaps up mining comms maker 
By Ry Crozier | Jan 4, 2012 | Comment Now 
Used for asset tracking, collision avoidance.
 
Customers abandon Go Daddy to protest SOPA support 
By Brett Winterford | Dec 30, 2011 | Comment Now 
Domain company reverses position.
 
NextDC finds a buyer for Brisbane data centre 
By Brett Winterford | Dec 28, 2011 | Comment Now 
Takes Bunnings approach to 'sale-and-leaseback'.
 
Firefox add-on circumvents SOPA blocking 
By Stewart Mitchell | Dec 22, 2011 | Comment Now 
Technical work around to proposed anti-piracy bill.
 
US regulator frets over gTLD expansion 
By Liam Tung | Dec 20, 2011 | Comment Now 
Fears 'lawless frontier' on the web.
 
Microsoft signs EU accords on data privacy 
By Liam Tung | Dec 15, 2011 | Comment Now 
Small steps to on-shore visibility.
 
CBA hit by network outage 
By Liam Tung | Dec 15, 2011 | Comment Now 
Customers complain about delayed pay day.
 
Nokia Siemens to scale back Iran operations 
By Liam Tung | Dec 14, 2011 | Comment Now 
International sanctions squeeze foreign business.
 
Wikipedia mulls blackout to protest SOPA 
By Brett Winterford | Dec 13, 2011 | Comment Now 
'Strong public opposition' to online piracy bill.
 
Indonesia threatens BlackBerry shutdown 
By Liam Tung | Dec 13, 2011 | Comment Now 
Anger over Singapore data centre.
 
Ericsson CTO to lead Australia 
By Liam Tung | Dec 13, 2011 | Comment Now 
Swaps Silicon Valley for Australia.
 
Ministers can't find steady footing on cloud 
By John Hilvert | Dec 12, 2011 | Comment Now 
Government in catch-up mode, says industry analyst.
 
Huawei puts cap on Iran business  
By Liam Tung | Dec 12, 2011 | Comment Now 
No more new customers.
 
Google tips US$300m in HK data centre 
By Liam Tung | Dec 9, 2011 | Comment Now 
Goes APAC skills hunting.
 
Deep dive: Inside Elders' IT transformation 
By Ry Crozier | Dec 8, 2011 | Comment Now 
Data centre faces retirement as SAP rolled onto private cloud.
 
Designing for availability in the cloud 
By Justin Warren | Dec 6, 2011 | Comment Now 
iTnews' blueprint to cloud resiliency.
 
WAIA eyes next steps for Victorian peer trial 
By Ry Crozier | Dec 2, 2011 | Comment Now 
Sets up third state-based internet exchange.
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