Simon Sharwood
Recent articles by Simon Sharwood
Azure outage turned off Australia for breakfast
DNS issue brought down services for a few hours this morning.
May 3 2019 12:35PM
Australian Electoral Commission boots online blitz to counter fake news
Urges voters to “Stop and Consider”, but not everyone is convinced
Apr 16 2019 7:19AM
Blame Tesla if your data centre loses power
Electric car-makers have cornered the market for the best UPS batteries.
Apr 15 2019 7:10AM
189 Australian banks, finserv providers attacked by SMS-borne malware
'Gustuff' malware ships with catalogue of fake logon screens, localised targeting mechanisms.
Apr 10 2019 12:03PM
Microsoft pauses Windows 10 upgrades, advises admins to prepare for May release
May Update is late, will add ability to stop Windows auto-upgrades.
Apr 8 2019 1:01PM
Melbourne's flagship Apple store rejected by Vic heritage authority
Apple ditches plans.
Apr 5 2019 3:06PM
AWS drops cloud storage price to $2/terabyte/month
For those who are sick of tape, and in no rush to see data
Apr 1 2019 12:28PM
Microsoft finally declares last year's Windows fit for business
Windows 10 1809 approved for 'broad deployment' just weeks before its successor lands.
Apr 1 2019 12:05PM
Security industry 'Spakfilla' doesn’t really work, says Nine Publishing CTO
As Telstra weighs in with message to focus on the core.
Mar 29 2019 12:00PM
Google’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad fortnight
It's not just Gmail that's wobbled lately, and the problems have been self-inflicted.
Mar 20 2019 1:05PM
VMware demos hypervisor running on a network card
Yes, a network card, for very edgy use cases.
Mar 19 2019 2:10PM
StartupLand darling Shoes of Prey files for insolvency
The hunter becomes roadkill.
Mar 12 2019 10:34AM
Vodafone OZ charts own 5G path... despite 15 other Vodas going virtual
Infrastructure still being defined, while much of VodaWorld is already software-defined.
Mar 12 2019 6:55AM
Oracle warns on Java licenses for Solaris
Your OS license has you covered, except when it doesn't.
Mar 7 2019 7:05AM
Melbourne Council opposes Apple Store in Federation Square
Bad Apple in every bunch, say activists.
Mar 5 2019 10:12PM
Microsoft starts selling extended support for Windows Server 2008
It’s not cheap and Microsoft wants a year of fees up front.
Mar 4 2019 12:46PM
IBM warns customers no-deal Brexit could choke business data flows
Prepares itself and customers for the worst and expresses preference for soft Brexit.
Feb 26 2019 3:33PM
Cisco licensing SNAFU could put call centres on hold
Your call is important to us. Your license details, however ...
Feb 25 2019 9:26AM
NetComm Wireless plans sale to US company Casa Systems
$161m all-cash offer is 50 percent premium.
Feb 22 2019 9:32AM
Apple makes 2FA mandatory for boss developers
Better late than never, and you’ve got a week to make this happen.
Feb 21 2019 12:12PM
