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A day without COBOL

18 July, 2013 by Kylie Kelly, General Manager, Australia and New Zealand, Micro Focus

Try to imagine what you would do if ATMs stopped working, credit card transactions couldn’t be processed, online purchases weren’t recognised and retail registers refused to work causing shops to shut down.


Unitas experiences 80% regional growth with new data centre provider

20 May, 2013

Choosing a new data centre provider has allowed Unitas Global to grow 80% in the Asia-Pacific region.


Cloud computing drives data centre expansion

05 September, 2011 by Merri Mack

Equinix, a carrier-neutral data centre company, has opened its new Sydney data centre. Merri Mack reports on the launch and the continuing demand for local data centres given the growth of cloud computing.


QFabric data centre architecture

11 May, 2011 by

QFabric is claimed to be the first true data centre fabric and is claimed to deliver improvements in data centre performance, operating cost and business agility, from the enterprise to the large-scale cloud provider. It is a simplified, highly scalable data centre network solution for building and securing virtualised data centres.


ANC invests in additional Sydney-based data centre capacity

06 May, 2011

Access Networks and Communications (ANC), a provider of data centre services, has invested in additional capacity at the Global Switch Sydney data centre, which is claimed to be one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.


APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruxure Management Software Portfolio 6.2

12 April, 2011 by

The InfraStruxure Management Software Portfolio 6.2 includes updates to its Central Monitoring Suite and Operations Suite as well as the introduction of an integration with VMware vSphere 4.1. These features provide a comprehensive view of the physical data centre infrastructure which allows users to manage and monitor an increasingly complex IT environment, including the deployment and management of virtual machines.


Avoidance of costs aim of government data centre strategy

17 March, 2011

The Federal Government plans to avoid $1billion over the next 15 years in data centre costs with its data centre strategy.


APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruxure data centre architecture

14 March, 2011

InfraStruxure scalable and adaptable data centre architecture is claimed to reduce cycle time and complexity from concept to design to installation. It integrates power, cooling, racks, security and management in a modular form factor that optimises power, cooling and floor space within an integrated energy management system and is claimed to deliver a 25% increase in power and cooling capacity and a 15% smaller footprint.


Pacnet launches Sydney Data Centre

17 February, 2011

Pacnet announced the launch of its Sydney Data Centre, their latest investment into Australia that is designed to meet the rapidly growing hosting and co-location demands of Australian businesses.


Avaya VENA data centre virtualisation architecture

20 December, 2010 by

The virtual enterprise network architecture (VENA) data centre virtualisation architecture from Avaya can improve data centre efficiency, reliability and network uptime (always on); reduce time to service (removing one layer of hardware complexity); and is claimed to have leading scalability and performance in a virtual services platform (VSP9000) with up to 27 Tbps throughput.


IBM Portable Modular Data Centre

06 December, 2010 by

The IBM Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC) is a compact, portable, fully functional and high-density capable data centre ‘in-a-box’. It is designed for users requiring immediate additional computing capacity in remote or temporary locations, such as mining and resource companies.


Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center

02 December, 2010 by

Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center simplifies hardware management in traditional, virtualised and cloud-based data centre environments; and is claimed to reduce hardware management costs by up to 90% through a converged approach to managing Sun hardware environments.


APC by Schneider PowerChute Business Edition 9.0 UPS software

02 December, 2010

PowerChute Business Edition 9.0 (UPS) is claimed to be the first uninterruptable power supply (UPS) software to provide energy reporting for IT equipment. It provides APC safe system shutdown and UPS management users with energy, cost and CO2 emissions reporting by each individual smart-UPS system.


Overcoming data centre challenges saves money

30 September, 2010 by Steve Dixon*

Data centre consolidation, and occasionally migration, consumes significant time and resources and is fraught with risk. Despite these challenges, the potential benefits of these projects such as cost savings and security have lead many organisations to initiate these projects.


Central Coast’s Verb deploys first POD

27 August, 2010 by Merri Mack

Central Coast’s Verb deploys the first HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD), which reduces power consumption and costs.


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