EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

KPMG has deployed new infrastructure from the VCE (VMware, Cisco, EMC) alliance, but promised to remain "vendor agnostic" and "impartial" to protect the integrity of its advisory business.

We also bring you NextDC founder Bevan Slattery's prediction of the National Broadband Network's failure, and details of a newly released draft of the Federal Open Source Software Guide.

-- Liz Tay

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Potential reference architecture for clients.

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Propped up by $9b NBN Co injection.

By Liz Tay | March 31, 2011

Offers licensing, risk mitigation advice to complement 2011 policy.

By Brett Winterford | March 31, 2011

Network supports handover of flight data.

By Jennifer Scott | March 31, 2011

Social media conversation tracking software.

By Staff Writer | March 31, 2011

Heated '80s conversation revealed.

By Liam Tung | March 31, 2011

Over 800 members’ credit card details exposed

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