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Opening up the cloud

Opening up the cloud

The cloud isn't just about commercial software and enterprise systems. The open-source world has its services too. Linode has been offering virtual Linux servers for years. Now the OpenStack project provides open source, open standards software for building reliable cloud infrastructure.

September 27th, 2010 in Cloud by Stilgherrian 1 Comment 3 Votes

Wotif: Paul Young, CIO

Wotif is one of the most popular online marketplaces for last-minute hotel accommodation in Australia and New Zealand. In this interview, the company's CIO Paul Young talks about some of the important technical and business decisions he has made in order to successfully manage the infrastructure of a rapidly growing Web 2.0 company.

March 6th, 2007 in CIO by Munir Kotadia Comment Vote

Open standards key to digital preservation

Open standards allow the National Archives of Australia to store documents and safeguard against hardware, software and OS obsolescence.

March 31st, 2006 in Format by Matthew Overington Comment Vote

Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has cited legal concerns over Microsoft's software as a factor behind its decision to only use document formats based on open standards.

September 6th, 2005 in Patent by Tom Espiner Comment Vote
Australia sources for open strategy

Australia sources for open strategy

Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?

September 30th, 2004 in Noie by Angus Kidman Comment Vote
Open source vs open standards

Open source vs open standards

Customers and government bodies should focus on products with open standards and realise the pitfalls of open source, argues Scott Petty, Dimension Data Australia COO.

May 21st, 2004 in Scott Petty by Scott Petty Comment Vote

New ISO fees on the horizon?

Information technology standards groups are raising warning flags over a proposal that could raise fees for commonly-used industry codes, including two-letter country abbreviations, used in many commercial software products.

September 22nd, 2003 in Patent by Evan Hansen Comment Vote

CSIRO pushes Web services e-privacy

Individuals may gain greater control over where personal data they submit to organisations is distributed if an Australian developed privacy model is accepted into the Web Services standards.

May 13th, 2003 in Christine O'keefe by James Pearce Comment Vote

Windows more stable than Linux: Stratus

Server manufacturer Stratus Technologies is banking on Windows becoming the dominant server operating system of choice, claiming that companies should chose the propriety software for its stability.

February 24th, 2003 in Open Source by James Pearce Comment Vote

Australian bank pushing for open standards

The National Australia Bank has conceded its drive to embrace open standards is being hampered by the need to leverage existing investments in legacy applications.

January 29th, 2003 in Legacy Systems by James Pearce Comment Vote

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Please stop with the analytical, common sense and facts, Gregory. Those opposed to the NBN don't want to hear such things, which is why ...

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But, yet again, Turnbull is clearly in error when he says that other companies cannot roll out copper. In South Brisbane Telstra chose to...

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Not much point running fiber back to the exchange if that exchange itself is connected by copper. It is access to fiber backhaul that de...

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27 minutes ago by Beta on Copper greenfield dominance irrelevant: Conroy

So instead you want these estates wired up with fiber and then left, unconnected with no service, until the fiber rollout reaches them in...

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Water, roads and electricity were all rolled out by government because there private companies weren't interested as the ROI in the early...

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The case you outline, South Brisbane, is in fact the coalitions prefered model. They WANT the incumbent telco, Telstra, to provide the f...

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Cybersecurity #collaboration between the US & Australia. http://t.co/p2uKLSBi

So, over time, the Coalition policy will cost much much more than Labor's because they intend to subsidise the broadband of farmers and t...

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Any form of science training counts against you as a politician, in the coalition parties, doubly so. There may be others who keep quiet...

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Sorry HC, what is meant by "Cinders "?

2 hours ago by Doubt on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

Thanks Beta, I could hear the nurse walking down the corridor as you posted. Much better now.

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7 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Currently about 50% of connections are at the 100Mb/s rate.
As a consequence, ARPU is significantly higher than the projected figures.

7 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Currently about 50% of connections are at the 100Mb/s rate.
As a consequence, ARPU is significantly higher than the projected figures.

7 hours ago by GregoryB1 on NBN FUD: will Abbott ever learn?

Wireless currently carries less than 2% of total internet data traffic. Simply to carry the existing traffic, we would need 50 times the ...

7 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Blowing the digital dividend on wireless NBN

The stupidest part about a wireless solution for the burbs is that it will actually cost more to put an antenna on the roof to get the si...

7 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Blowing the digital dividend on wireless NBN

The problem is not range of the cell in the urban areas where Turnbull wants LTE instead of fibre, it is the number of users. In urban ar...

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