Datacentre: News

Datacentre provider, NextDC, (ASX: NXT) has launched its flagship datacentre, named M1, in Melbourne.

Big data is a current buzz word in the IT industry and enterprises should harness it into their businesses, according to Oracle database product marketing vice-president, Willie Hardie.

Over the past six months, Cisco and Citrix have merged a shared vision regarding the importance of virtualisation through the collaborative development of a global Partner Accelerator initiative that aligns the companies’ channel sales and delivery models.

Kroll Ontrack doubling R&D team, snom technology extends partnership with Digital Techniques, Seagate and DensBits to collaborate, Silver Peak wins patents.

Telstra, SAP, and Accenture are banking on their reputations to woo enterprise and Government customers with their new hosted Cloud solutions.

Datacentre provider, NextDC has set a clear strategy for delivering a national network at co-location datacentres and will be focusing on building those facilities over the course of the next 12 months, its new CEO, Craig Scroggie, said.

Out of 189 breaches recorded through mid-June, here are the top 15 according to Identity Theft Resource Center.

The use of big data in corporate decision-making is increasing, according to consulting, technology and outsourcing services provider, Capgemini.

In the coming financial year, new IT spending will be harder to find, according to research firm, Ovum public sector research director, Kevin Noonan.

Oki Data and Toshiba Tec sign agreement, CommVault becomes leader, and Kroll Ontrack upgrades its DIY solution

As part of its bi-annual IT refresh program, the Northern Territory Government has deployed the IBM zEnterprise 114 mainframe server to host a range of governmental business applications.

The channel would not be immune to another global financial crisis and should look to smart strategies in the face of another downturn, industry executives say.

Juniper Networks has been selected to give the University of Auckland’s (UoA) two key datacentres a technology makeover with the deployment of its QFabric system.

Technology distributor, Avnet, has been included in the 2012 CIO 100 list for the first time since its inauguration 25 years ago.

Former Symantec vice-president and managing director, Craig Scroggie, has joined datacentre provider, NextDC, as its new CEO.

Minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has launched HP's new $200 million datacentre in Eastern Creek, New South Wales.

Think you have to manage a lot of IT gear? These massive facilities - each at least 100,000 square feet and most much larger than that -- house thousands of servers and process millions of documents, images and videos every day.

Nominations for the 2012 ARN IT Industry Awards are OPEN.

Nominations for the 2012 ARN IT Industry Awards open on Tuesday, June 12.

Gartner kicked off its Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in Orlando, Florida, with a "top 10" list of the most significant emerging trends that will impact data centers and information technology used by businesses and government from now into the next four or five years.