Industry News
GFC results in stagnant ITC salaries
The ACS 2010 Remuneration Survey finds a 3.3% salary increase overall while 45% of private sector employees received no salary increase.
[ + ]prHP and VMware join forces for an integrated cloud system
Integrated, end-to-end infrastructure solution from HP and VMware to deliver faster time to cloud computing by year end
[ + ]Private cloud to become the new ‘normal’ for IT infrastructure
Research finds 72% of Australian IT decision-makers are on the journey towards the cloud with expectations for private cloud to become the new ‘normal’ for IT infrastructure.
[ + ]Victorian Councils to provide access to services by smartphone
More than one in three Victorian councils chart IT strategy for mobilising ratepayer services.
[ + ]Connected education showcased at World Expo in Shanghai
Victorian students more than 8000 kilometres apart today chatted live to celebrate the opening of the Connections 2010 classroom exhibit at the World Expo in Shanghai, China.
[ + ]Australia scores in the middle of online risks
According to internet security company AVG Technologies, web surfers in Turkey, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are the most likely to face threats while online. The safest countries seem to be Sierra Leone and Japan.
[ + ]Central Coast’s Verb deploys first POD
Central Coast’s Verb deploys the first HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD), which reduces power consumption and costs.
[ + ]The world heads towards 50 billion connected devices by 2020
Ericsson has delivered 2 million radio base stations as the world heads towards 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
[ + ]Themes for Microsoft's Tech.Ed
Australia’s largest technical education event, Microsoft's Tech.Ed will host more than 2500 IT professionals and developers at the end of August. This year’s theme, ‘Potential Unleashed’, focuses on how IT professionals and software developers can unlock the capabilities in their existing IT investments and innovate with the tools and resources they have today.
[ + ]Infinite data retention leads to costly mistakes
High storage costs, long backup windows, litigation risk and inefficient e-discovery plague companies, survey finds.
[ + ]2degrees turms on 3G voice and mobile broadband network
2degrees has enabled 3G voice and mobile broadband services across its network after an extensive program undertaken in partnership with Huawei. The 3G build covers the entire 2degrees network in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown.
[ + ]Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable to boost network capacity
Pacnet, a provider of telecommunication services, and Pacific Fibre have announced plans to jointly build the Pacific Fibre cable, a city-to-city, low-latency subsea fibre-optic cable that will boost connectivity between Australia, New Zealand and the US.
[ + ]Call for smartphone vendors to simplify security
At a recent roundtable in Sydney, Scott Totzke, Security VP for Research In Motion (RIM), discussed the need for smartphone vendors to simplify security to improve usability for end users, the need to build security in from the start of the production cycle to maximise the efficiency of mobile devices and how trust is essential for the future development of mobility.
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