Australia’s retail sector must overcome myriad of challenges before its is able to address the growing loss of sales to overseas online outlets, according to the Productivity Commission’s Economic Structure and Performance of the Australian Retail Industry draft report.
Muddied definitions of backup and archiving and a lack of policies about data deletion are hobbling organisations as they race against Big Data, delegates at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) have heard.
Reality mining, tagging data at its source and Cloud reputation agencies are three of the emerging trends likely to come out of the explosion of ‘Big Data’ delegates at the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) have heard.
Westpac has warned customers that an IT glitch overnight has caused delays in some of its payments to and from other banks.
Major ASX-listed companies and government departments have been fine-tuning their cyber security in the months following their participation in international Cyber Storm III exercise, according to Federal Attorney General, Robert McClelland.
Google has added to the growing number of voices arguing that Australia’s current classification system is unworkable in today’s converged environment.
Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Brendan O'Connor, has sought to distance the government’s push for an R18+ classification for video games from the mass violence in Norwayat the weekend.
The Coalition has committed to delivering high-speed broadband, faster than Labor’s National Broadband Network (NBN) plan, to every Australian if it wins the 2013 federal election.
Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES) is to move to hosted IT infrastructure and communication services to enable it to better respond to rapidly changing needs during natural disasters and other emergency situations.
NextDC (ASX: NXT) has announced it is to open new data centres in Canberra and Perth as part of a push to develop a national Cloud computing footprint.
Pirate Party Australia (PPA) has called for a wholesale overhaul of Australia’s “fundamentally broken” classification system.
ANZ Bank has announced its technology roadmap designed to facilitate two decades of continued growth through the integration of Australia and New Zealand with the Asia Pacific to form a super-regional business.
One organisation literally banking on the notion that data centre space in CBDs will continue to be at a premium is Verb IT, which has partnered with HP for its version of the PMDC, the Performance-Optimised Datacentre or POD.
TPG (ASX: TPM) has announced it is to acquire IntraPower (ASX:IPX) in an off market takeover deal worth some $12.8 million.
In the world of IT few things conjure up an image of monolithic permanence more than the data centre. Row after row of rigid, reliable IT powering the flow of commerce and industry around the globe day and night. Rain, hail or snow. Year after year.