Review: Gigabyte GV-R779OC-2GD
Instead of taking route of having the fastest graphics card on the market with the GV-R779OC-2GD, Gigabyte has decided to make its product both efficient and quiet.
Stories by Patrick Budmar
Mobile applications and optimised websites not a priority for SMBs: Sage
Mobile applications and mobile optimised websites are more readily adopted by large businesses in Australia than SMBs, according to recent research carried out by Sage.
Review: Targus 13.3-inch Ultralife thin edge sleeve
A popular way to carry around slim devices like Ultrabooks is with a sleeve, and American accessory vendor Targus has designed its Ultralife line-up for this purpose.
Social enterprise can boost productivity by up to 25 per cent: NewsGator
Adopting a social corporate strategy can lead to tangible productivity time savings, according to NewsGator Asia Pacific business development director, Cuneyt Uysal.
Disk and Cloud adoption leaving tape in the dust: CloudRecover
Businesses are more open to using the Cloud for outsourcing tech components of their infrastructure than ever before, according to CloudRecover CEO, Mac Thompson.
Click Frenzy avoids capacity issues, at least from the Akamai side
Bargain hunters were left high and dry when there were capacity issues with Click Frenzy last year, though this year’s event went “seamlessly," according to Akamai Australasia senior manager, Ian Teague.
Datacentre boom brings Enlogic to Australian market
Power Distribution Unit (PDU) vendor, Enlogic, has set up operations in Australian to capitalise on the booming datacentre market.
NewSat makes inroads with US military, but yet to do so locally
The US department of defence has an “insatiable appetite” for Ka band capacity at the moment, which covers the frequencies of 26.5-40 GHz, according to NewSat Limited founder and CEO, Adrian Ballintine, whose company has sealed satellite deals with the American military.
Oracle announces new SPARC servers
Oracle has unveiled a range of new SPARC servers based on the SPARC T5 microprocessor, which the company calls the world’s fastest chip.
Australian SMBs open to BI: QlikTech
Business intelligence (BI) has typically been the domain of enterprises and the mid-market, but SMBs are getting in on it as well.
Almost half of employees work from home or on holidays: VMware
Working during a holiday may seem like an unpleasant prospect but 42 per cent of Australian employees are apparently doing so.
NBN “detrimental”, ended infrastructure upgrades by telcos: BitCloud
The NBN has so far been a “very detrimental” development for local Cloud provider, BitCloud, according to CEO, Bennet Oprysa, who bases his opinion on seeing telcos end the development of their own infrastructure in the wake of the NBN being announced.
Even with satellites, regional Australia prefers fibre-to-the-home: Conroy
Even as the government is busy setting up deals for orbital satellites as part of the NBN, Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said small communities in regional Australia would still prefer fibre-to-the-home
Storage controllers no longer last for years but months: VMtech
Storage controllers that would usually last for years end up becoming full in months. VMtech director, Len Findlay attributes this to more being put on the disk than before.
VMware looks to Horizon
VMWare has released its virtual workspace solution, dubbed Horizon, in order to simplify end-user computing in the multi-device era.