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  • Tasmania releases NBN fibre tender

    The Tasmanian State Government, through its utility Aurora, has released a request for tender document for the fibre component of Tasmania's National Broadband Network roll-out.

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    Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim claimed last week that the state was being disadvantaged by not having an information and communications technology minister.

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    The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.

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    Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines is in the process of moving its IT infrastructure from a fleet of traditional servers to virtual servers running on blade hardware.

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    Yes, says iiNet, and the telco giant's price chains are keeping smaller players from venturing down the rural broadband route.

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    Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).

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  • Wireless -- willing but not able

    Australia still has way to go before it can meet its full potential with wireless and broadband.

  • Quantum leaps

    It's not Star Trek, but quantum computing looks set to revolutionise the way we do computing.

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    It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options.

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