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Primus completes $2m upgrade to fight outages

Primus completes $2m upgrade to fight outages

Bullet-proof from now on?
Munir Kotadia Aug 17 2009 5:24PM Hardware
Netregistry owner buys MD Webhosting

Netregistry owner buys MD Webhosting

Steps closer to toppling Melbourne IT in shared hosting.
Ry Crozier Aug 3 2009 2:25PM Telco/ISP
Gumblar mutates into spam beast

Gumblar mutates into spam beast

Local shared web host hit hard.
Brett Winterford Aug 1 2009 7:25AM Security
ImageShack hit by hacking group

ImageShack hit by hacking group

The image-hosting site ImageShack was compromised over the weekend.
Dan Raywood Jul 14 2009 10:22AM Security
Hostworks COO, CFO to quit

Hostworks COO, CFO to quit

Four key Hostworks executives resign in the space of two months.
Brett Winterford Jun 12 2009 5:17PM Networking
Interview: Hostworks chief, Paul Mullen

Interview: Hostworks chief, Paul Mullen

iTnews editor Brett Winterford discusses Broadcast Australia's plan for hosting specialists Hostworks with its newly-appointed managing director, Paul Mullen.
Brett Winterford Jun 12 2009 6:19AM Networking
SBS hands off hosting to Macquarie

SBS hands off hosting to Macquarie

Broadcaster SBS has signed over hosting of its IPTV and online radio platforms from Hostworks to Macquarie Hosting in a three-year multi-million deal announced today.
Ry Crozier Jun 2 2009 12:29PM Telco/ISP
Huge Canberra data centre courts anchor tenants

Huge Canberra data centre courts anchor tenants

Builders behind the Canberra Technology City data centre development say they will push ahead despite the Federal Government’s decision not to consolidate existing data centre facilities into one ‘super centre’.
Ry Crozier May 25 2009 11:12AM Networking
Pipe's $200m PPC-1 cable lands despite "personal threats"

Pipe's $200m PPC-1 cable lands despite "personal threats"

PIPE International chief Bevan Slattery said that being “personally threatened by a tier one” carrier in October strengthened his resolve to build the $200 million PPC-1 subsea cable, which made its landing in Sydney today.
Ry Crozier May 19 2009 1:18PM Telco/ISP
QPAC outsources hosting to Macquarie

QPAC outsources hosting to Macquarie

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre will use virtualisation to handle peaks in demand on its qtix service.
Staff Writers May 11 2009 3:24PM Telco/ISP
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
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
Yahoo closing Geocities web hosting service

Yahoo closing Geocities web hosting service

Yahoo will close Geocities, the free web hosting service it paid US$4 billion (A$5.62 billion) for 10 years ago.
Rosalie Marshall Apr 25 2009 8:04AM Networking
Inside the DOE’s power-hungry supercomputer

Inside the DOE’s power-hungry supercomputer

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has reduced the power consumption of its supercomputing facility by using warmer chilled water to cool the machine.
Liz Tay Apr 23 2009 5:54AM Hardware
Hostworks lands Jetstar win and former Sun MD

Hostworks lands Jetstar win and former Sun MD

Former Sun Microsystems Australia boss Jim Hassell has been named as interim CEO at Hostworks after the departure of founder Marty Gauvin.
Brett Winterford Apr 9 2009 2:25PM Storage
Web Hosting Talk payment system hack revealed

Web Hosting Talk payment system hack revealed

A hacker has dumped active credit card numbers of users of the popular Web Hosting Talk forums online less than 24 hours after the site restored the lion’s share of data deleted in an initial breach.
Ry Crozier Apr 9 2009 2:24PM Security
Inside the Global Switch Sydney data centre

Inside the Global Switch Sydney data centre

iTnews gets a rare and exclusive look at the results of the last phase of construction and power and cooling upgrades at one of the region’s flagship data centres – and we have the photos to prove it.
Ry Crozier Apr 7 2009 5:41AM Networking
WebCentral customers abandon ship after major outage

WebCentral customers abandon ship after major outage

Customers are churning away from Webcentral’s shared hosting service after a three-day outage caused by a storage system failure on Friday, citing horrible customer service and lost e-business opportunities.
Ry Crozier Mar 25 2009 1:17PM Telco/ISP
Cisco taps VMware for data centre blade play

Cisco taps VMware for data centre blade play

Cisco and VMware have announced a partnership designed to dominate data centres using VMware's virtualisation tools and a new Cisco platform that brings together computing, network and storage hardware.
Brett Winterford + VNU News Mar 17 2009 11:09AM Hardware
Cybercrime-as-a-service takes off

Cybercrime-as-a-service takes off

Malware writers that sell toolkits online for as little as $400 will now configure and host the attacks as a service for another $50, a security expert has said.
Ry Crozier Mar 12 2009 2:52PM Security

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