Laurence Cole, managing director of BEA Australia and New Zealand, talks to ZDNet Australia about the challenges of maintaining growth in a difficult market.
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The NSW Department of Services, Technology and Administration (formerly the Department of Commerce) is currently engaged in a plan to consolidate the State Government's numerous enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platforms into one shared service, according to HP.
Virgin Blue has grounded plans to outsource the maintenance of its Oracle e-business systems, chief information officer David Harvey said late yesterday.
Lenovo's global chief executive Bill Amelio this week said the Chinese hardware specialist would start offering its ThinkServer line in Australia from late September.
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Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
Reading the news via the handy (though often-ignored) AvantGo on my Pocket PC recently, I encountered an advertisement for a white paper from Microsoft offering a case study on costs of ownership for Linux versus Windows. This has the potential to be either informative or tragic, I said to myself, as I chose to download a copy.
I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
It seems that green IT has dropped off the radar, with other technology issues moving to the fore. But was green IT ever a real technology movement, or was it just a marketing fad?
We look at the virtual machine software market's three principal players: Microsoft, VMware and Xen.
We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance.
Laurence Cole, managing director of BEA Australia and New Zealand, talks to ZDNet Australia about the challenges of maintaining growth in a difficult market.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
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Software vendor CA plans to move its Melbourne-based antivirus labs to a new facility after exhausting the space and energy resources at its current location -- by consuming as much power as an average metal-welding factory.
We compare Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems and pick a winner.
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Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.
Although it's expensive and requires networking experience to use, the Synology DS209+ offers excellent throughput and nearly all the features you're likely to need in a small-business NAS server.
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