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Internet
Telstra under fire over technical response to Tassie outage
By
Ry Crozier
| April 21, 2009
Internode has slammed Telstra's technical response to a major outage on its Tasmanian wholesale cable overnight, which left the ISP's customers without service for 12 hours.
Software
VMware takes virtualisation to the next level
By
Brett Winterford + VNU News
| April 21, 2009
VMware has officially launched the next version of its virtualisation platform, adding storage and network virtualisation features designed to turn corporate data centres into a single giant resource the company dubs "the software mainframe".
Internet
eWay puts gateway into Macquarie data centre
By
Staff writers
| April 21, 2009
Payment gateway provider eWay has inked a three-year, $500,000 deal with Macquarie Hosting to host its online payment system, transaction applications and encrypted customer data.
Software
Adobe wins $20m NSW education software deal
By
Staff writers
| April 21, 2009
Over 1.8 million school and TAFE students and teachers in NSW will receive Adobe software in a $20 million deal announced today.
Security
Cisco leader heads to Marshal8e6
By
Staff Writers
| April 21, 2009
Marshal8e6 has appointed John Vigouroux as CEO.
Security
Users not patching third party apps
By
Iain Thomson
| April 21, 2009
Research by vulnerability specialists Secunia suggests that third party applications are increasingly being used by malware writers in preference to using operating system attacks.
Business
IBM reports slight drop in profits
By
Iain Thomson
| April 21, 2009
IBM has reported a one per cent drop in profits in its quarterly earnings statement but is bullish about the future of 2009.
Security
U.S. cybersecurity review done, heads to Obama soon
By
Staff Writers
| April 21, 2009
President Barack Obama will soon receive the results of a 60-day review of cybersecurity that should weigh in on whether he should name a cybersecurity czar, the White House said.
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