Last Thursday night, a power supply interruption to a datacentre in Brisbane's CBD affected services to most Queensland government departments.
Queensland state-owned energy supplier Stanwell Corporation this week revealed plans to build two new Tier 3 datacentres; plans that should be upgraded, according to one analyst.
The University of Queensland has opened a new in-house-designed datacentre, using the university IT team's knowledge of supercomputer power and cooling requirements to deal with the trials of virtualisation.
Yesterday workers installed six 22 tonne diesel power generators into one of Australia's largest datacentres prior to prepare it for its official opening early next year.
The Queensland Government has gone to market for a smaller than expected raft of technology and services to lay the foundation for a centrally managed government-wide data platform, which it hopes will be ready by 2010.
As a system administrator, the health and status of your datacentre is at the forefront of your mind. But how often do you think about the needs beyond server status and bandwidth?
As soon as one government decides to do a new project it's a good bet that others will follow suit, in the ultimate fashion obsession.
There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.
Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.
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.
In 2020, datacentres are estimated to be cleaner, greener and more flexible but will they be any safer?
Hosted customer relationship management (CRM) is showing signs of gaining critical mass with two emerging players gaining traction with both enterprise and small- to medium-sized organisations in Australia.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
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