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    Hard drives weren't always so compact or so capacious, as a quick pictorial tour through the museum of hard drives at the HDS SAN Technology Centre in Odawara, Japan, reveals.

  • Telstra still key to Sun in Australia

    Execs say they're happy with Sun Microsystems' performance in Australia, but much of that can still be attributed to a single customer -- Telstra.

  • BI just one of many challenges for SAP

    SAP's acquisition of Business Objects is unlikely to cause the company's existing customers to rush out and add business intelligence applications.

  • Macquarie powers up with SAP on BlackBerry

    Electricity company Macquarie Energy has managed to slash its purchases approval process from a fortnight to a day after developing a BlackBerry-based application to integrate into its existing SAP workflow.

  • Intel plans for green tracking device

    Worried about the impact your technology use is having on the environment? A development project underway at Intel might help salve your conscience whilst also giving you another gadget to add to your arsenal.

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    Will you manage in the exabyte era?

    Mammoth growth in storage volumes is a fact of life, but even so it's helpful to pause occasionally and try and work out whether our information strategies have fallen hopelessly out of step with the pace of technological growth and changes in costs.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Forget the raised floor, where are the generators?

    The components that make up a modern datacentre often look disturbingly like commodity items: a server here, a rack there, spaghetti tangles of cable everywhere. But there's one item that is still something of a rarity -- and no, I'm not talking about the expertise needed to run it.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    The $5 budget challenge

    The ever-decreasing cost of storage might look like a useful development for the cash-strapped IT manager, but in fact the falling bucks per gigabyte figure can carry a hidden sting in the tail.

  • Taking datacentres on the road

    Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.

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    The true cost of analysis

    When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.

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  • Photos: Intel unveils future technology at IDF 2007

    Intel's announcements at its 2007 Developer Forum in San Francisco centred around the availability of its Penryn processors later this year and future plans for its Nehalem microarchitecture, but CEO Paul Otellini also used the opening keynote to show off some cool prototypes and other fancy equipment.

  • How Google keeps its database ticking

    Google is used to sifting through huge amounts of information to generate its search results, but a 12 gigabyte database proved something more of a challenge for its own financial management and planning systems.

  • DoE Victoria learns from project management lessons

    Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.

  • Paralympic phishing scam blocked by coding error

    A new phishing e-mail aimed at diverting donations to the Australian Paralympic Team has emerged -- complete with a coding error which means that the cold-hearted scam is unlikely to work.

  • Dawn of the dual-screen PDA

    New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds.

Reviews (55)

  • Billion BiPAC 7402G

    An 802.11g wireless router with an integrated ADSL modem suitable for multiple PC homes and small offices.

  • Netcomm MyNetFone V-100

    The V-100 combines solid technology and a service that's cheaper to run than competing VoIP services, and is highly recommended.

  • Apple iPod Photo (60GB)

    Apple's latest iPod includes a colour screen and photo display capabilities, as well as a chunk of extra storage space.

  • Apple iPod U2 Special Edition

    Apple's iPod U2 Special Edition takes customisation to an extreme, as long as you're a fan of Irish rock bands.

  • Asus W1N

    Does Asus' notebook make Microsoft's Media Center OS redundant?

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