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    Managing director of hosting provider Hostworks, Paul Mullen, sat down to talk to ZDNet.com.au about what happened when My School went down, storage versus speed and Hostwork's development of a Content Delivery Network to provide hosting requirements for traditional media channels' online sites.

  • Review damns Vic Police info security

    A review into Victorian Police information security following a 2008 breach found that it was predominantly due to "good luck" that more serious breaches hadn't occurred.

  • Oracle explains Sun to Aussies in April

    After laying out its plans for its newly completed Sun acquisition to a worldwide audience via webcast, Oracle now intends to hold international tours explaining the integration of the companies to customers and partners.

  • Unveiling Apple's iPad: Live blog

    After months of rumors and speculation about a slate-like device, Apple has had its say. See the train of events in this blog from the high-profile press event which kicked off in San Francisco at 10am PST 5am Sydney time.

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    The Australian Open turns Melbourne Park into a small city each year, with the underlying information technology having to be scaled up to meet the demands of organising hundreds of matches.

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  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Ubuntu can't cut geek support umbilical

    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Intel's 34nm SSDs: Probably just fast enough

    We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    B33hive founders start all over again

    The team behind the Sydney-based maker of mobile games and applications B33hive has sold its business off and is starting again with a new Twitter-based service for television addicts.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Duel of the fates: Atlassian and Omnidrive

    Only a few years ago Atlassian and Omnidrive were the flag carriers for Australia's Web 2.0 movement. But recent developments have shown just how different the outcomes for start-up companies and entrepreneurs can be.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    I'm taking all the SSD credit

    Just last week, I was moaning and groaning like a whiny little so and so that SSD hard disks were too expensive. A few massive price cuts later from Intel, and I'm almost a happy man.

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  • Will Qld stumble on IT consolidation?

    With a reduced scope and changes in organisational structure, the Queensland Government's Technology Transformation Project appears unlikely to deliver on its planned savings or deadlines.

  • BoQ EDS fraud: Blow by blow

    The nation has heard about former EDS employee Reecson Wentworth Denford's audacious theft of $2.9 million dollars from Bank of Queensland, but what were the motives behind the sweeping fraud and what has it done to the man who committed it? Read our blow by blow account of the events.

  • Firepower server 'sold to Cash Converters'

    A file server sought by liquidators of Firepower may have been sold to a pawnbroker, the boss of the failed fuel pill company says.

  • The state of ERP

    Looking to enhance your business with an ERP system? Here's our round-up of the top vendors.

  • Raising the mid-market ICT bar

    There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.

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  • Ballmer: Moving closer to the cloud

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gives his definition of cloud computing, which is moving information outside of the firewall and putting it on storage systems that are shared with other companies.

  • IT challenges at Lucasfilm

    At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...

  • Torvalds worries about patents and slow storage

    Linus Torvalds, who was attending Australia's largest Linux Conference, is worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.

  • Dell: Virtualisation pains are temporary

    When businesses scaled out their server infrastructure, Dell rode high, but the arrival of virtualisation is hurting its server sales. Despite this, Dell's president, Asia Pacific South, Paul-Henri Ferrand says the world will need more of its servers and storage in the future.

  • Think green ... and protect your data

    Sending old equipment off for recycling not only helps the environment, it also ensures that 'forgotten' data stored in old storage devices does not find itself in the public domain.

Reviews (896)

  • Seagate BlackArmor PS 110 USB 3.0

    The Seagate BlackArmor PS 110 USB 3.0 is a well-designed external hard drive that is fast, portable and future-proof.

  • Internode MiFi

    Internode's MiFi 3G modem/router works quite well, but carrier issues and high pricing are a big downside.

  • HP Proliant DL785 G6

    HP's 7RU server is a crazy amount of power in a dense box. We take a poke inside.

  • Apple Time Capsule (2TB, Late 2009)

    The Apple Time Capsule is a convenient and simple wireless router and NAS server combo for your home. Unfortunately, you can find better deals on devices that offer greater storage space and many more features for the price.

  • Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station (Late 2009)

    The AirPort Extreme Base Station is a great wireless router for Mac or novice users who need something that's simple, nice-looking and works well for their homes. Savvy Windows users will find many better value alternatives.

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