Business-focused Internet service provider Pacific Internet will move its Sydney data centre to hosting specialist Global Switch's Ultimo facility in a process starting February and expected to complete midway through 2006.
Data centre and telco traffic peering specialist Equinix has extended network links to Melbourne and Brisbane, enabling organisations to connect back to its Sydney data centre.
The Commonwealth Bank is taking extra steps to protect its datacentres, by expanding its use of a biometric access control system called Cornerstone to datacentres through NSW and Victoria.
The next generation of datacentres will support automation and will be highly efficient, said an Intel executive.
IBM claims its latest modular datacentre design can help cut energy bills by 50 per cent.
Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
When supercomputers get together, things get hot fast. Our photo gallery reveals how modern datacentres are cooled, and gives an insight into Google's secret solution to the problem.
Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk speaks to ZDNet Editor-in-chief Dan Farber about creating design software for its eight million customers in the construction, media and manufacturing industries. He also talks about the company's green strategy, his 20 years in product development and transitioning to his new role as CIO.
It's one thing to know your datacentre is important to your company's day-to-day functioning, but something altogether different to risk disrupting critical services worldwide when circumstances force you to move the entire infrastructure.
When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.
Windows Server 2008 is easier to install and manage than previous versions, and has many new and improved features that should encourage organisations to upgrade.
Microsoft Exchange might be the most popular mail server but is it the best? We test the alternatives.
Distributed companies increasingly use VPN connections to access and share information. We test ADSL firewall routers that are designed for this purpose.
Not willing to let Sony Ericsson steal all the limelight with its megapixel camera-phones, Nokia answers the call with its own.
Now, after a year's delay, Windows .Net Server -- the mother of all Enterprise Servers--has arrived in beta form, ZDNet puts it to the test.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategi… Watch it now
Driving Business Growth Through Enterprise IT Management
High availability computing with reliable blade technology
MyPerfect.com.au has potential
Storage infrastructure on the tender track
Apple has killed the video store; will ISPs be next?
Driving Business Growth Through Enterprise IT Management
Dig deeper by clicking here »
Achieve continuous availability with high performance NonStop blade technology
Security superguide
When chief information officers and other technology managers talk about their priorities, security is always high on the list.
Click here for more.
Superguide: Printers -- all you need to know
Looking to buy a printer? Our superguide rates the latest printers and shines a light into the industry.
Click here for more.
Storage and server superguide
Over the last decade the art of maintaining the datacentre of a large organisation has evolved into an art form.
Click here for more.
