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• Massive fraud server exposed

  A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.

• Lenovo servers to hit Oz in Sept

  Lenovo's global chief executive Bill Amelio this week said the Chinese hardware specialist would start offering its ThinkServer line in Australia from late September.

• Bluetooth security vulnerabilities ignored

  Former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt has warned of the dangers of flaws in Bluetooth protocols, claiming these vulnerabilities are unrecognised.

• HP claims storage will cost 50 percent less to run

  HP is releasing a new line of "green" storage products that, according to the company, will require half the power and cooling of its current systems.

• Sun plans broader reach for UltraSparc chip

  With the expected launch of its new UltraSparc T2 chip Sun will once again sell microprocessors, but this time round it has plans to expand beyond the server market.

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  Apache site hacked via SSH keys

  The apache.org website suffered an intrusion over the weekend that resulted in the site being taken down.

• Heads in the cloud

  Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.

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  Datacentres should have kitchens

  There's a standard checklist of items you'll need to include for a datacentre: raised flooring, easy access to redundant power supplies, an air conditioner the size of a small hotel room, but chances are you don't have a kitchen in there.

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  Microsoft's Robocopy compromise

  Trying to understand the logic behind Microsoft's development decisions is a bit like S&M: it's a painful activity probably best left to others. But a recent example from the storage world does suggest something about Microsoft's "people will beat up on us regardless" dilemma.

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  Exchange students learn the taste of defeat

  We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the matre d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.

Features and Case Studies (512)

• Sydney Anglican Schools finds way to better reports

  Financial administration isn't always an area where cutting-edge technology and application innovation are desirable. For Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation, this simple truth has led the organisation through years of long change as it works to modernise its administrative systems.

• Four mid-range servers compared

  What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.

• Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

  Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

• Green your datacentre or it may go dark

  Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

• Linux faster, more reliable than Microsoft IIS

  In a test of over a thousand Web sites in Europe, Linux-based servers were found to be faster and more reliable than sites based on Microsoft's IIS Web server software.

Reviews (231)

• Microsoft Money 2006

  Microsoft Money 2006 is a worthwhile upgrade for current users who like to bank and pay bills online, but it requires Windows XP.

• Four mid-range servers compared

  What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.

• Apple Time Capsule (2009)

  Apple Time Capsule is a convenient and simple wireless router and NAS server combo for your home. Unfortunately, especially in the case of the 1TB version, you can find better deals on devices that offer greater storage space and many more features for the price.

• Synology DS209+ NAS Server

  Although it's expensive and requires networking experience to use, the Synology DS209+ offers excellent throughput and nearly all the features you're likely to need in a small-business NAS server.

• Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron

  AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to exploit the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet's tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel's Xeons.

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