The Internet gave us a glimpse of what it means to plug PCs into the network and presto! We now have a data utility from any phone line. But did you know where and how storage is used to support the Net?
Besides the 5,000 leaders, politicians, media and delegates expected to roll in to Sydney for the APEC 2007 Leaders' Summit in September, the APEC Taskforce will be literally bringing in its own IT infrastructure.
EnergyAustralia's recent backup catastrophe was beyond belief and should never have happened, according to a Gartner analyst.
EMC and IBM on Wednesday announced another step in their joint technology agreement, which will now include the midrange iSeries server.
VMWare is expected to introduce a new product bundle this week that it hopes will extend its lead in the virtualisation software market.
Trying to understand the logic behind Microsoft's development decisions is a bit like S&M: it's a painful activity probably best left to others. But a recent example from the storage world does suggest something about Microsoft's "people will beat up on us regardless" dilemma.
Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.
Thin clients, make way for a new competitor: hosted, virtual servers and desktops are finally changing the way corporate Australia manages its IT infrastructure.
Strengthining its utility computing software, Veritas Software recently released an upgrade to its server provisioning product called OpForce.
Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.
Sun's $4.1 billion buyout of StorageTek is a huge bet: It's the last cash deal that size Sun will be able to make.
WinBackup is a first-rate backup program for students, and home and small-business users, but corporations will want a more industrial-strength package.
The Rack Station RS408 is an attractive NAS solution with plenty of performance, plus lots of extras to tempt the smaller business.
Double the capacity and double the price, the new WD Passport offers some extra speed but little in the way of new features.
Consumer NAS drives don't get classier or easier than the Maxtor Shared Storage Plus, but we'd like to see Gigabit Ethernet on it.
More than just a hard drive enclosure, the SC101 provides compelling features at a low price, making it a good choice for shared storage.
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