Datacentre: News

WAN optimisation vendor, Silver Peak, has signed Ingram Micro as a distributor for the Asia-Pacific region with a focus on Australia.

The SAP-owned business execution software company has plans to turn Australia into a Cloud computing hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

Diversified industrial manufacturer, Eaton Corporation, has unveiled its PowerAdvantage Rewards Program, an incentive scheme created exclusively for the company's Australian channel distributors and resellers.

Making the Cloud productive requires the aid of external contributors in addition to a calculated strategy, according to Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) first assistant secretary, Glenn Archer.

EMC has announced a bunch of new initiatives and products to enable channel partners to accelerate their customers’ journey to the Cloud.

The datacentre spend in Australia is expected to grow from $2 billion in 2010 to $3 billion this year, according to DPSA national datacentre architect, Jason Rylands.

Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as datacentres, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

IT service provider, aCure Technology, is building a new datacentre in Perth CBD, Western Australia.

The facility in Noble park is now one of the most energy efficient facilities of its size in Australia.

Bouncing information around a datacentre, via 60GHz Wi-Fi, can speed things up by 30 per cent compared to using traditional cables, a group of researchers found. The technique is still being perfected, but it could yield an interesting approach for enterprises in the not-too-distant future.

My company has outgrown its offices and will be moving to a new facility next year. While the company as a whole will have more space, the data center will shrink to less than half the square footage it now occupies. The goal is to decrease the data center footprint by 60%.

IBM has kicked off its annual Impact conference by announcing two "ecosystems" that it claims will radically simplify the development and deployment of applications in mobile and datacentre environments.

More companies are incorporating sustainability into their service provider selection and purchasing processes, and on a global level, A/NZ is leading the way, according to a survey by Cloud computing vendor, Rackspace Hosting.

Dell has cut the ribbon at the official launch of its Sydney Solutions Centre in Frenchs Forest.

If your data is in the cloud, do you know where it really is?

IT infrastructure technology provider, Rittal, in partnership with Sage Automation and Kiddie, is heading on an Australian roadshow from May to showcase its Rittal DataCentre Container (RDCC).

Microsoft plans to build a new data center, this time in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

It is a 'great time' to be a data scientist, says Dr Rami Mukhtar, senior researcher, National ICT Australia (NICTA).

Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyze data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties. The company has also updated its InfoSphere data warehouse software.

Big data transformation is going to have a revolutionary impact on businesses, according to Microsoft Technical Fellow, David Campbell.