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  • Power outage downs Qld govt services

    Last Thursday night, a power supply interruption to a datacentre in Brisbane's CBD affected services to most Queensland government departments.

  • Optus outage: new capacity rented

    Optus has decided to lease a new capacity from another unnamed carrier to prevent a network disaster such as Queensland's loss of internet, voice and mobile services last month.

  • Another Optus fibre break hits Qld

    Queensland-based customers of Optus and several other telcos were suffering service outages this afternoon due to what the SingTel subsidiary suspected was a break in an optical fibre cable north of Coffs Harbour.

  • Optus outage; as CFO promoted

    Optus customers in Sydney and Melbourne today had problems accessing their 3G wireless broadband services as another outage dogged the carrier.

  • Optus still in the dark on outage

    Optus has still not pinpointed the cause of the mobile network outage which occurred on Friday, affecting 3G data services as well as voice.

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    Datacentre disaster lessons

    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?

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  • Queenslanders debate cloud computing

    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.

  • Telco 2008: A year in review

    2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

  • Datacentre 2020: Data security gets physical

    In 2020, datacentres are estimated to be cleaner, greener and more flexible but will they be any safer?

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