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  • 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?

  • Photos: Datacentre heat, Google's secret solution

    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.

  • Photos: Inside Intel's new chips

    As a drum-roll to its developer conference to be held in Shanghai in April, Intel has released details of its latest chip designs including the six-core Dunnington. Check out our photo gallery to get an insight into Intel's latest developments.

  • Salesforce.com CEO: Microsoft is still a dinosaur

    For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.

  • Q&A: Google's Alan Noble on the future Web

    Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.

  • Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss?

    Microsoft's Hyper-V is the missing piece from the launch of Windows Server 2008. We examine its background, and predict how the hypervisor market is likely to develop.

  • Four major Windows Server 2008 storage improvements

    With the release of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is making a number of improvements to the server's underlying storage mechanisms. I'll talk about four of these improvements and explain what they mean for the typical IT organisation.

  • Storage-starved SMBs get pampered

    Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.

  • Seven turns to Blue for secure Yahoo Messenger

    Seven Network has increased visibility of instant messaging (IM) and closed potential IM-related security holes after a corporate directive forced the IT team to develop a more disciplined approach to managing the largely unregulated technology.

  • The 10 biggest headaches of 2007 for CIOs and IT managers

    IT is largely about solving problems and keeping the business running, and the higher up you are in the IT department the bigger the problems you have to solve.

  • Linux: Making the change

    The idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free hasn't clicked with many enterprises -- until now.

  • Taming the alpha mail

    The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.

  • Woolworths get BI curious with SAP

    It wasn't all smooth sailing when Woolworths upgraded to SAP's BI 7.0 recently, but as the retail chain put it: "An ASX Top 10 company cannot consolidate their results on an Excel spreadsheet".

  • Virtual infrastructure, at your servers

    Thin clients, make way for a new competitor: hosted, virtual servers and desktops are finally changing the way corporate Australia manages its IT infrastructure.

  • Deploying with AppExchange

    The hardest part of creating a successful software application is often not the coding -- it's getting that product out to its intended market.

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