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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
Hackers hold US medical data hostage

Hackers hold US medical data hostage

Hackers have taken control of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) in the U.S. and are demanding a US$10 million (A$13.6 million) ransom for the return of patient’s records.
Iain Thomson May 6 2009 2:08PM Security
Hackers hold US medical data hostage

Hackers hold US medical data hostage

Hackers have taken control of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) and are demanding a US$10 million ransom for the return of patient’s records.
Iain Thomson May 6 2009 10:19AM Security
Researchers hijack Torpig botnet

Researchers hijack Torpig botnet

In an effort to better understand the workings of cybercrime, a group of researchers recently hijacked and dissected a massive botnet.
Shaun Nichols May 5 2009 2:46PM Security
Netbooks, cloud to be winners this year: IDC

Netbooks, cloud to be winners this year: IDC

Gazing into its crystal ball, analyst International Data Corporation predicts "pockets of opportunity" for the IT industry in an otherwise gloomy outlook this year.
Nate Cochrane May 5 2009 2:18PM Hardware
Former IT head admits guilt

Former IT head admits guilt

The former IT director at the Houston-based LifeGift Organ Donation Center has pleaded guilty to charges she illegally accessed the organisation's network to delete data, according to a US Department of Justice news release.
Dan Kaplan May 4 2009 11:43AM Security
AussieHQ to migrate Hosting Shop servers to Sydney

AussieHQ to migrate Hosting Shop servers to Sydney

AussieHQ will shift “hundreds of servers” of data virtually from Brisbane to Sydney over the next six months after acquiring Brisbane-based Hosting Shop for an amount “well into the seven figures”.
Ry Crozier May 1 2009 11:23AM Telco/ISP
Virtual data safety

Virtual data safety

Virtualisation is a technology whose time has come, and many of the primary problems in deploying a virtualised environment can be solved with proper planning, as Chuck Miller explains.
Chuck Miller Apr 30 2009 4:43PM Security
Better incentives required to stop data loss

Better incentives required to stop data loss

Organisations do not know enough about the source, reason and frequency of data leaks, and more incentives need to be put in place to encourage better data protection, according to a panel discussion at the Infosecurity Europe show in London.
Ian Williams Apr 30 2009 10:20AM Security
Tandberg Data files for bankruptcy

Tandberg Data files for bankruptcy

Local sales partners of data storage company Tandberg Data are putting on a brave face after the Norwegian-based company filed for bankruptcy.
Stuart Finlayson Apr 30 2009 12:01AM Storage
Blocking Phorm won't stop it, warns privacy group

Blocking Phorm won't stop it, warns privacy group

A data protection group has warned that opting out of Phorm will not prevent the technology from processing data that users enter through web site search portals.
Rosalie Marshall Apr 28 2009 3:45PM Telco/ISP

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