Datacentre: News

The 2013 ARN ICT Industry Awards were launched in true style at the Ivy Sunroom in Sydney with the annual Judges' Lunch.

IBM and ASTRON are on the hunt for scientists to take part in what is described as the world’s biggest Big Data challenge - researching the origins of the universe.

Are you seeking tools for data visualisation and analysis that won't bust your budget? Here are dozens of ideas.

Changes in technology do happen and although they might be difficult, doing nothing and ignoring them can be worse, NewLease head of Cloud strategy, Stephen Parker, said.

Datacentre infrastructure vendor, Rittal, has launched a new channel program, which includes training, dealer registration, design tools, lead generation, channel news and market intelligence initiatives.

The outage that left Outlook.com and Hotmail users without access to their emails for almost 16 hours this week was due to overheating servers in the data center, Microsoft said.

Few tech industry buzzwords have gotten as vigorous a workout as "big data," but while the hype remains plentiful, it is starting to give way to real-life successes as well as formal ways companies can develop big data strategies, according to a number of IDC analysts.

This year will be the year of larger scale adoption of big data technologies, according to analyst Gartner.

Cisco has awarded its top performing partners at the 2012 Cisco Partner Insight Awards, held as part of the Cisco Live! 2013 event in Melbourne.

Technology will drive change over the next three to five years, and data gained from the Internet of things must be turned into wisdom in order to keep up with the digital revolution, Cisco office of the CEO and chairman senior vice-president, Carlos Dominguez, said.

Datacentre provider, NextDC, has swung to a net profit of about $4.7 million in the first half ending December 31 from a net loss of about $3.2 million, helped by the sale and lease back deal of certain datacentre property assets.

Majority of revenue growth came from its internet, fibre and datacentre business

Open Cloud company, Rackspace, has announced that its acquisition of MongoDB Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider, ObjectRocket, will close today.

IT giant, Dell, has unveiled its local datacentre play by announcing two “significant investments in the millions of dollars” to settle into two sites along the Australian Eastern seaboard.

WhiteGold Solutions has partnered with German datacentre vendor, Rittal, marking what it expects will be the first of many partnerships in WhiteGold’s new datacentre ecosystem.

Taking proper advantage of Big Data requires a holistic approach where organisations view their storage as a ‘data platform’ rather than a ‘data destination’, according to open source solutions provider, Red Hat.

Electronics manufacturer, Samsung, has signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) software license and marketing agreement with unified identity services provider, Centrify Corporation, to address bring-your-own-device (BYOD) corporate and personal data separation issues.

Company states 33 per cent NPAT drop was a planned consequence of significant capital expenditure

Rackspace Australia director, Mark Randall, said the new datacentre fulfills significant local demand for managed virtualisation platforms.

Hosting provider, ATechnology, has migrated all of its customers to iseek Communications’ datacentre, located at Export Park in Brisbane.