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Scientists invent memory storage good for a billion years

Scientists invent memory storage good for a billion years

Scientists are reporting successful tests of a new memory device that could allow terabytes of data to be stored without corruption for millions of years.
Iain Thomson May 27 2009 2:02PM Hardware
IBM pushes solid state drives to Power servers

IBM pushes solid state drives to Power servers

IBM has released solid state drive (SSD) products designed to help firms reduce costs and improve memory response times across its Power hardware platforms.
David Neal May 25 2009 6:10AM Storage
Brisbane data centres unscathed by flood

Brisbane data centres unscathed by flood

Data Centres in Brisbane have come through the worst rainstorm in three decades unscathed, as flooding took its toll on telecommunications lines and other key infrastructure.
Brett Winterford May 22 2009 3:30PM Networking
NetApp buys Data Domain as profit sinks

NetApp buys Data Domain as profit sinks

Storage vendor NetApp has shelled out US$1.5 billion for Data Domain, the American leader in data de-duplication technology.
Brett Winterford May 21 2009 10:21AM Storage
Sun Microsystems touts virtualisation for tape drives

Sun Microsystems touts virtualisation for tape drives

Sun Microsystems has revealed plans to add one of the newest storage technologies into one of the oldest storage methods still in use.
Shaun Nichols May 21 2009 6:24AM Storage
Acure to use Amcom downtime to upgrade power

Acure to use Amcom downtime to upgrade power

Acure has brought forward a major power upgrade in its DC1 data centre to Sunday to coincide with a core network upgrade by Amcom that is expected to cut communications to up to 70 per cent of Acure’s customers.
Ry Crozier May 21 2009 6:00AM Telco/ISP
EMC hungry for acquisitions

EMC hungry for acquisitions

A cashed-up EMC plans to go on an acquisition spree, according to CEO Joe Tucci.
Rosalie Marshall May 19 2009 3:20PM Storage
NAB trials off-grid power and Kyoto cooling in data centre

NAB trials off-grid power and Kyoto cooling in data centre

The National Australia Bank (NAB) is trialling radical power generation and cooling technologies in its data centre after being disappointed with the lack of power savings yielded from server virtualisation.
Brett Winterford May 19 2009 6:01AM Storage
EMC offers sneak peek of EMC World 2009

EMC offers sneak peek of EMC World 2009

EMC is set to add new data deduplication capabilities and virtualisation functionalities to its storage portfolio.
Rosalie Marshall May 18 2009 6:46AM Storage
More than 10,000 former hospital patients may be affected by data theft

More than 10,000 former hospital patients may be affected by data theft

The patient records of more than 10,000 people may have been leaked in an identity fraud scam.
Dan Raywood May 15 2009 10:54AM Security
Colocation stunts data centre tier upgrades

Colocation stunts data centre tier upgrades

Operators of colocation data centres are being prevented in some cases from improving the tier level of facilities because they can’t mandate minimum standards for customer equipment, a Sydney consultancy has said.
Ry Crozier May 15 2009 5:53AM Networking
Mozilla predicts Firefox majority by 2013

Mozilla predicts Firefox majority by 2013

Mozilla is predicting that its Firefox browser will overtake Internet Explorer as the browser of choice by 2013.
Iain Thomson May 14 2009 2:17PM Software
CeBIT09: Federal CIO rules out super data centre

CeBIT09: Federal CIO rules out super data centre

Australian Government CIO Ann Steward has ruled out the possibility of the Federal Government building its own supersized data centre to support all its agencies to meet recommendations in the Gershon Review.
Brett Winterford May 13 2009 10:15AM Storage
SAP business intelligence becomes more “Google-like”

SAP business intelligence becomes more “Google-like”

SAP has launched Business Objects Explorer, which it says brings business intelligence analysis capabilities to all business users.
Rosalie Marshall May 13 2009 6:08AM Software
Mandatory data loss laws could curb security breaches

Mandatory data loss laws could curb security breaches

More than half of Australasian small businesses responding to a survey conducted by Symantec claim to have experienced security breaches.
Lilia Guan May 12 2009 1:32PM Security
Heartland reveals cost of data breach

Heartland reveals cost of data breach

Payment processing firm Heartland Payment Systems has finally revealed that the massive data breach it suffered last year has cost the company over US$12.6 million ($A16.4m) in fines and legal costs.
Phil Muncaster May 11 2009 10:53AM Security
SMS buys out BI consultancy Pelion

SMS buys out BI consultancy Pelion

SMS Management & Technology has acquired Sydney-based consultancy Pelion to bolster its NSW data management practice.
Staff Writers May 7 2009 2:12PM Strategy
Consultant accesses company's data room in social engineering 'attack'

Consultant accesses company's data room in social engineering 'attack'

A company has been hit by a mystery shopper attack where it was the victim of a 'social engineering' exercise.
Dan Raywood May 7 2009 10:56AM Security
IBM snaps up Exeros

IBM snaps up Exeros

IBM has agreed to acquire data discovery software vendor Exeros.
Shaun Nichols May 6 2009 3:42PM Software
Data centre cut disrupts Western Sydney hospital

Data centre cut disrupts Western Sydney hospital

The Sydney West Area Health Service has confirmed a six-hour outage affected access to Nepean Hospital’s electronic medical record system on Saturday.
Ry Crozier May 6 2009 2:38PM Hardware

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