Jetstar's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality has meant that the airline has accepted the risk that it might not be up all the time in exchange for cheaper services, CIO Stephen Tame said today.
Google has joined SingTel and four other carriers to build a new high bandwidth submarine cable system between the US and Japan, in a move to address its broadband capacity needs.
The CSIRO has developed a new network to help disaster response efforts, by delivering visual data on natural disasters to emergency services across the Asia Pacific region.
Microsoft has been awarded a tongue-in-cheek prize by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) for the debacle surrounding its Office Open XML specification.
Five years after the concept was first proposed by New Zealand government officials, a high speed broadband network linking the country's eight universities and several other research institutions has finally gone live.
Having one of your biggest customers roast you in the media as "slow to react to a catastrophic systems failure" and "unwilling to apologise" for it is not a good look for IBM New Zealand.
Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.
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Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
The CIO of San Francisco International Airport talks to ZDNet about protecting the airport's network and providing new services such as passenger WiFi.
Few people in the high-tech industry have feuded as openly as Oracle's flamboyant CEO Lawrence Ellison and Thomas Siebel, the co-founder and chairman of rival enterprise software maker Siebel Systems.
Do you regularly inspect and maintain your IT facility? Here are tips to ensure your infrastructure is in top shape.
Do Australian companies really need a business continuity plan? ZDNet Australia finds out what all the talk is about in disaster recovery and continuity planning.
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.
To encourage the broadest possible support for its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology, IBM will release an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into the next-generation storage system.
In the future, Deborah Estrin says "nanometer-sized sensors will track the path of pollutants, and "smart buildings" will adjust their bearings to avoid earthquakes. Believe it, or not?
Power spikes, surges, sags, blackouts, and noise can all play havoc with your expensive equipment and vital data. We look at seven options for keeping your power uninterrupted.
Everyone thinks that tape is a dull topic, until they lose some essential data and everyone comes screaming for backups. Technology & Business gets the low down on tape storage offerings and directions.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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