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  • Bureau forecasts AU$14m data store

    The Australian Bureau of Meteorology will soon start building a AU$14 million storage facility to satisfy its expanding data requirements for the next five years.

  • Sun relaunches Sparc chip business

    Sun Microsystems has launched a new business unit to sell its Sparc processors, a return to an idea it had dropped years ago.

  • Sun expands blade line, includes Intel

    Sun Microsystems released a bevy of blade products on Wednesday in an effort to help it better compete in the thick of the market.

  • Sun's Orion pricing expected by June

    Sun Microsystems plans to release pricing for server software under its ambitious Orion strategy within the next two months, the company's top software executive said Tuesday.

  • Sun to simplify its software

    Sun Microsystems will build its entire collection of software into a single, gigantic version of its Solaris operating system and release updates once a quarter, Sun's top software executive said Tuesday.

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    The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.

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  • Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

    After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.

  • Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue

    When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.

  • Community banking grows storage bank at Bendigo Bank

    Constructing a new head office was a natural step in Bendigo Bank's growth. However, the bank's IT team was forced to do some creative thinking in figuring out how to upgrade and move its 20 terabyte storage area network (SAN) to the new data centre at the bank's new headquarters.

  • StorageTek gets set for tape release

    StorageTek unveiled a tape device for mid-size businesses last week, amid signs that tape is preserving a place in data storage.

  • Quantum unveils tape storage product

    The data-storage company unwraps a new tape library system dubbed "Mako," with hopes that the product will take a bite out of rival Storage Technology.

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