Macquarie Telecom has admitted a failure of the air conditioning systems at its Sydney-based Intellicentre data centre facility caused a number of customer’s servers to shut down and reset early Saturday morning.
Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has extended its relationship with Telstra in a new, 10-year, whole of business telecommunications agreement that is believed to be worth more than $1 billion.
The build-out of Australia’s first 4G network has taken a step forward with the signing of Canadian company DragonWave to supply wireless backhaul for the forthcoming VividWireless Perth network.
Virgin Blue has extended its relationship with outsourcing partner Verizon Australia to include the remote management of several of the airline’s core business applications.
One of the ICT industry’s peak lobbying groups, the Australian Computer Society (ACS), may be set for a new era with four prominent roles on its board up for election.
The global financial crisis has had little effect on Australia’s ICT trade with strong growth in imports and exports recorded during 2008, a new report commissioned by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has found.
The National Broadband Network will provide an iPhone-like boom in online applications and services when complete, Federal Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has said.
Two technologies currently under research by IBM may hold the key to being able to process and store the Exabyte (one thousand million Gb) of data expected to flow per day from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project.
An Australian developed algorithm has allowed researchers at the CSIRO to map -- for the first time -- Centaurus A, an enormous galaxy with a a supermassive black hole that is 50 million times the mass of our sun.
Porn spam is emerging as a growing issue on social networking sites according to security outfit, BitDefender.
Those looking for a glimpse into the future of the National Broadband Network (NBN) should look to the Australian Academic and Research Network, according to AARNet’s CEO, Chris Hancock.
The Commonwealth Bank’s IT management team is tracking ahead of schedule in its $580 million, four-year core modernisation program.
Analysts and industry bodies comment on the proposed break up of Telstra.
The Federal Government will also introducing measures whereby consumers would be able to apply to the Austrlian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to stop Telstra removing payphones in their area. Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, also pointed to higher prices and slower speeds for broadband in Australia as the major reason for the proposed Telstra separation plans announced yesterday.
Senior IT professionals looking to get a grip on their security budgets could do worse than look at their company’s spend on insurance to get a feel for what they should be investing, according to Gartner.