Technical staff at integrator Dimension Data designed and built an entire functioning enterprise data network for its annual conference.
The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) has flagged a desire to reduce its telecomms spend as it goes to market for one or more suppliers for at least the next three years.
Optus has still not pinpointed the cause of the mobile network outage which occurred on Friday, affecting 3G data services as well as voice.
Telstra has confirmed it will provide the government with the information it is seeking on the telco's broadband network -- and will put some of its investment on hold until after the fibre-to-the-node tender process is over.
The same technology that allows Web surfers to locate and connect to computers on the Internet can be used to create covert communications channels, bypass security measures and store distributed content, a security researcher said Saturday.
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.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
So how many of you have bought a 3G iPhone? Do you feel like a sucker? If you don't, maybe you will once your first bill arrives.
A while back, frustration with my inability to get online outside of the office drove me to invest in a 3G data service from Hutchinson's 3. For $30 per month, I get 2GB of data that's accessible pretty much anywhere I go (I do all my work in metropolitan areas).
If you hang around mobile rumour sites then you may have heard the latest Chinese whisper doing the rounds -- Sony is making a PSP mobile phone all of its own.
From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years
Traditional security models are dependent on "border patrol" via firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention system and other perimeter protection methods. In new, borderless networks, the focus shifts to protection of the data itself. Here are 10 technologies you should be looking at to help secure your borderless network.
Hacker attacks that bring down the network get a lot of attention but if your organisation is only focusing on this type of security you're still vulnerable. Find out how to protect your data from internal threats.
In the digital era, why don't planes beam more flight data directly to a network of ground stations?
Universities are looking for ways to protect networks while maintaining a free flow of data and ideas -- an idea businesses could learn from.
iiNet CTO Greg Bader explains the effect that companies such as Pipe Networks, which runs a 1.92Tbps submarine cable from Sydney to Guam and owns numerous metro-based dark fibre links, are having on data prices.
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
Apple Time Capsule's hybrid 802.11n wireless router/networked hard drive offers some powerful data backup features for Mac owners, as well as Apple's typical pleasing design. Windows users and anyone who demands speed from their 802.11n network will be disappointed.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
802.11i is currently nearing completion and it adds two main blocks of improvements, improved security for data in transit, and better control of who can use a network.
There's no question data volumes are growing; how long will it be before 100 megabits isn't enough? ZDNet Australia evaluates the performance benefits and cost effectiveness of gigabit Ethernet over copper and fibre.
Unanswerable questions of our time, number one: If you're so smart, why ain't you rich? And number two: If your new PC's so much better than your old one, how come it don't work properly?
The Rack Station RS408 is an attractive NAS solution with plenty of performance, plus lots of extras to tempt the smaller business.
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