Datacentre: News

Hitachi Data Systems A/NZ vice-president and general manager, Neil Evans, characterises Australia as the “Western gateway to the East”.

Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth budget may well be his last. But it certainly had some highlights although most analysts agree that it didn't offer a great deal to Australian economy. The following stories offer a broad-based, ICT-centric coverage of the budget.

To foster the growth of a highly virtualised, open and flexible network infrastructure, networking vendor, Brocade, has adopted an “On-Demand Datacentre” strategy.

IT infrastructure solutions provider, Thomas Duryea, has secured a contract with Australian child health research institute, Murdoch Childrens’ Research Institute (MCRI), to design and deploy a new storage infrastructure platform.

Ingram Micro has been appointed the exclusive Australian distributor for enterprise storage management specialist, Actifio.

ARN's Community Manager, Hafizah Osman, has disappeared under a flood of community picture stories and reports of company events, so we thought what better to do than put them all in a slideshow summing up the week in the channel. This week features company awards and partner events amongst others. Are you pictured?

German datacentre infrastructure vendor, Rittal, will be launching its one-part standardised datacentre, RiMatriX S, at CeBIT Australia on Wednesday, May 29 at 2pm at stand X50.

From a repurposed chapel to inflatable modules, datacentres don’t fit the same mold

Bargain hunters were left high and dry when there were capacity issues with Click Frenzy last year, though this year’s event went “seamlessly," according to Akamai Australasia senior manager, Ian Teague.

Datacentre vendor, Equinix, has expanded its Australian team in an attempt to support the continued growth within the datacentre space.

Nextgen Distribution has partnered with Violin Memory, a maker of flash-based storage systems to help it expand in Australia and New Zealand.

Optus has inked a deal with datacentre provider, NextDC, in a bid to offer customers a full suite of enterprise Cloud, datacentre and IP network services from any NextDC datacentre across the country.

Power Distribution Unit (PDU) vendor, Enlogic, has set up operations in Australian to capitalise on the booming datacentre market.

SafeNet has released its new Cloud-based authentication service, billed as Authentication-as-a-Service, in A/NZ.

Many organisations have trouble finding IT workers with the skills needed to implement big data analytics and Cloud computing strategies. But that skills gap isn't limited to engineers and developers.

Distribution Central business unit, SAN Systems, has been brought on as a distributor for Fujitsu’s Primergy server range across A/NZ

Datacentre infrastructure vendor, Rittal, has unveiled an Australian partner portal as part of its recently launched channel program.

Future-proofing the datacentre should be a core focal area for end user organisations, according to datacentre vendor, NextDC.

Schneider Electric has released version 2.0 of its StruxureWare for Datacentres product.

Siemens' Smart Grid division has announced a global strategic cooperation in big data with Teradata, through which it will further optimise its solutions' portfolio to provide energy utilities with more transparency on the status and activities in their networks.