EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

We continue our 'Inside' series today with a wide-ranging discussion about the Commonwealth Bank's twin data centres.

No pics of their cool kit this time around, but they are looking for ways to reduce their reliance on having the space in the first place - and cloud looks like it could be an answer.

By coincidence, Verizon Business has today launched a pay-per-use data centre in the States. A sign of things to come?

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Ry Crozier | June 04, 2009

The Commonwealth Bank wants to see data centre requirements contract in the coming years, potentially using cloud capacity to combat the race for data centre space.

By Staff Writers | June 04, 2009

The Australian enterprise server market experienced the largest fall on record in Q1 2009, according to IDC's Australia Quarterly Enterprise Server Tracker.

By Staff Writers | June 04, 2009

A confidential report with information about hundreds of U.S. civilian nuclear sites and locations of fuel for nuclear weapons was mistakenly made public this week, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

By Jim Finkle | June 04, 2009

A bidding war over Data Domain erupted on Wednesday as NetApp raised its bid for the data storage company to US$30 (A$37.55) a share, matching a competing one from EMC.

By Rosalie Marshall | June 04, 2009

Verizon Business has launched an on-demand data centre service, offering access to virtual and physical servers on a pay-per-use model.

By Angelica Mari | June 04, 2009

Cloud computing could be more expensive than traditional methods, but offers benefits if used right, according to experts at Forrester Research.

By David Neal | June 04, 2009

Adobe Systems has released a free preview version of BrowserLab, a hosted service for web designers.

By Daniel Robinson | June 04, 2009

Opera Software has released a beta version of Opera 10, the next version of its cross-platform browser, adding a mode to speed browsing over slower internet connections.

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