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BREAKING IT NEWS FOR AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS Monday April 6, 2009
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EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

Anyone got room for a million bucks of new storage kit?

Today we put out a call to readers to take part in a live benchmark test that aims to clear the air over NetApp's Storage Virtualisation Guarantee.

NetApp is offering 50TB of enterprise-class storage to any Australian organisation willing to volunteer for their old data to be shifted onto a brand spanking new NetApp array.

The good news? Regardless of the outcome, you get to keep the kit. Read on for more details.

-- Brett Winterford

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TODAY ON ITNEWS

Hardware
NetApp backs storage guarantee with $1m offer

By Brett Winterford | April 06, 2009

NetApp is offering a whopping 50 terabytes of enterprise data storage, worth about $1 million, to an Australian organisation willing to be iTnews' guinea pig in a benchmark test to prove the validity of NetApp's storage virtualisation guarantee.

 
 
Telecommunications
OptiComm FTTH rides first home buyers boom

By Ry Crozier | April 06, 2009

OptiComm wants five of Australia's top ten ISPs offering retail services on its wholesale fibre network before the end of the year.

 
 
Hardware
Ford vehicles to get dashboard PC with mobile broadband

By Dave Bailey | April 06, 2009

Ford is to introduce what it claims to be "the world's first broadband-capable in-dash computer system," to selected US models.

 
 
Mobility
BlackBerry maker sees strong profit growth

By Tom Young | April 06, 2009

Shares in Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) jumped 20 per cent in after-hours trading yesterday after the firm posted strong profits for the fourth quarter of 2009, beating analysts' expectations.

 
 
Software
Western Power buys Oracle billing software

By Staff writers | April 06, 2009

Western Power has invested in Oracle software to help manage larger volumes of customer information brought about by disaggregation of the electricity market in Western Australia.

 
 
Hardware
Western Digital enters solid-state drive market

By Staff Writers | April 06, 2009

Western Digital has completed a US$65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems which supplies solid-state drives for the embedded systems market.

 
 

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