Growing pains for the cloud's open source platform
02 July, 2014 by Andrew CollinsOpenStack vendors are increasingly claiming that the open source cloud platform has reached maturity - but is it truly ready for the enterprise market?
Transforming applications for cloud and mobility
25 June, 2014 by Gordon Hoff, Director, Applications & Business Services, Enterprise Services, HP South PacificOrganisations need to understand how to embrace emerging technologies to bring them new customers or defend their existing bases. However, too many organisations are struggling to maximise the potential.
Virtualisation brings savings, simplicity and flexibility
25 June, 2014 | Supplied by: NutanixHornsby Shire Council wanted to better manage its 500 desktops, 100 laptops and 80 printers used by 750 personnel across 20 sites. Virtualisation was the answer.
More of SAP landscape shifting to the cloud
18 June, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingLarge enterprises plan to move nearly half of their SAP on-premise environment to the cloud within the next two years, creating a $41.5bn market segment, a survey indicates.
Australian cloud IaaS market booming
18 June, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingMore than half of Australian organisations with more than 20 employees have adopted public cloud IaaS for at least part of their IT infrastructure, research from Telsyte shows.
Overlay networking - what took so long?
13 June, 2014 by Rahul Shah, Product Marketing Manager, Emulex | Supplied by: EmulexDespite the continuing development of virtual machine migration-related capabilities, various networking challenges continue to fester, including onerous networking reconfigurations and inadequate virtual LAN IDs for scaling secure private networks.
NBN, cloud and the future of the network
10 June, 2014 by Andrew CollinsThe shape of the network in years to come will be largely determined by a new wave of technologies - like the NBN, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) - according to a new study from research firm IDC.
Enterprise networks must become more agile
02 June, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling92% of enterprises feel their network infrastructure is not agile enough to support next-gen apps and services, and half are evaluating adopting SDN to address this issue, according to a survey.
Cloud, biometrics to change airport experience
29 May, 2014Report identifies case for cloud technology in common use systems for airports of the future, while nearly 80% of Australians support the use of biometric security to verify passenger identities.
Govt wants to help small businesses adopt cloud
21 May, 2014The federal government has released a series of guides that it hopes will inspire small businesses adopt and use cloud computing services.
Victorian govt's ICT strategy emphasises cloud, mobility, access
20 May, 2014The Victorian Coalition government has released its ICT strategy for the next two years, which focuses on cloud, mobility and community access.
Spatial data revolution is coming
13 May, 2014Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has appointed a world-renowned scientist to drive a spatial revolution in the business and government domains.
Cloud: more than a zero-sum gain?
07 May, 2014 by Lawrence Garvin, Head Geek, SolarWindsThe cloud is sometimes touted as a money-saver, or at least a way to make management of expenditure easier - by turning CAPEX into OPEX. But there are hidden costs (like bandwidth) that should be taken into account when planning a cloud deployment.
Govt should adopt cloud, digital-first policies: report
07 May, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe Commission of Audit's phase one report argues that the government should have a digital-first policy for all interactions with government, and a cloud-first policy for ICT service procurement.
Toyota adopts cloud-based backup platform
29 April, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingToyota Motor Corporation has consolidated its disparate backup platforms into a single enterprise-wide system, using a cloud-based backup-as-a-service (BaaS) offering from Logicalis.
