Industry minister Kim Carr has launched Australia's most powerful computer in Canberra, ushering in a new era for scientific research.
How do you manage something that's constantly growing fast, with no end in sight? That's the question many Australian IT managers are currently asking themselves, as they size up their storage and data management strategy going into 2009. Unfortunately, there's no easy answer.
One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday in Europe.
IBM today launched its "largest ever" range of new storage products, in an attempt to meet a market demand for storage the technology giant said would grow over the next decade.
It got delayed a few months, but a new, somewhat unusual supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week.
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.
And the Guinness World Record for the largest data warehouse goes to...
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.
A fledgling user group claims plenty of storage vendors are unfairly using per terabyte pricing/licensing models for storage software, despite the explosion in data growth.
Managing data can be difficult, especially if you have almost 500 terabytes of storage and spend $10,000 a month on backup tapes. This case study looks at how Melbourne IT, one of Australia's biggest web hosting companies, handles storage
ZDNet.com.au's sister site ZDNet.co.uk was at the Science & Technology Facilities Council event in Westminster to see, via video-link, the Large Hadron Collider being initiated. This photo gallery takes you inside the event, and the initial reactions of scientists.
Project Blackbox is the first virtualised datacentre to be stored in a shipping container, and according to its manufacturer, Sun Microsystems, it's fully portable -- providing you have the means to tow it.
In a ZDNet CIO Vision Series video interview, Lars Rabbe talks about innovating around Web 2.0, social networking and the tools driving development at the company.
We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.
It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options.
Can virtualisation help you simplify your storage management? And when will it be ready?
Nickel whiskers promise disks with a thousand times more storage than today's finest.
IBM's work on the AIX 5L Unix operating system will bear fruit this year, with version 5.1 enabling systems to incorporate Power 4 chips or Intel's Itanium for the first time.
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