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    Virtual servers? Untangle your cables first

    Datacentres are by their nature somewhat sterile and antiseptic places, but many of them hide a dirty little secret: cables so tangled they make the plots of Days Of Our Lives look logical by comparison.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    What kind of company is Oracle?

    As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Punchcard: 3D modelling for the rest of us

    Adelaide-based start-up Punchcard is hoping to bring 3D modelling skills to the masses with VideoTrace.

  • Read the blog post - Alex Serpo

    Five reasons SSDs are great

    It's rare that we see a genuinely new technological paradigm land on retail shelves, but solid state drives, or SSDs, are one such technology. Here are five reasons we're looking forward to their ascendancy.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

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  • Intel debuts low-power server chip

    Intel announced "Sossaman" on Tuesday, a low-voltage version of its Xeon server processors that consumes between a third and a fifth the amount of electrical power as its brethren.

  • CIO View: Virtualisation is a technology with very real returns

    It seems going virtual can create some very real returns. Not only does virtualisation cut down on wasted CPU, disk and memory capacity, it also allows for more rapid deployment of applications and reduces power usage.

  • Datacentre 2020: Greener, faster, more flexible

    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?

  • Moore's Law can't stand the heat

    Over the past few years, the amount of electricity required to power a server in a datacentre has more than doubled. In this special report, we look at why many datacentres today are facing a power and cooling crisis.

  • Is Adobe replaying Sun's Java tape?

    Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?

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  • The green datacentre -- an oxymoron?

    The datacentre is the first and most obvious place the IT industry has looked at in addressing its overzealous consumption of power. But is the phrase "green datacentre" an oxymoron? Munir Kotadia attended a seminar in Canberra to try and find out.

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  • Astro to propel Transmeta's comeback

    Transmeta, which has suffered through a difficult year and a half, is gearing up for a comeback with Astro, a newly designed microprocessor due out in 2003.

  • Tomorrow's notebook technology

    What sort of notebook could you be buying in 4 months, or in 2004? We peek into the crystal ball.

  • Six SAN shoot-out

    Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).

  • Toshiba Satellite L500D

    We like the Toshiba Satellite L500D, it's amazing value for its price. However, we think it's worth paying the extra AU$200 for the version with the less power hungry GPU.

  • ViewSonic VG2427wm

    The ViewSonic VG2427wm has a good assortment of ergonomic options and great performance, but its asking price is just a bit too high to recommend.

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