News

• Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE

  By Jim Duffy | 24 January, 2013 13:48

  Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach.

• DiData jumps to RASP status

  By Nermin Bajric | 24 January, 2013 10:18

  ICT solutions and services provider, Dimension Data (DiData), has furthered its existing partnership with Riverbed by joining the Authorised Support Partner (RASP) program.

• Where to turn when VMware stops supporting Lab Manager in May

  By Brandon Butler | 23 January, 2013 23:14

  The date is coming soon: VMware will stop supporting its Lab Manager product in May, and where VMware is leaving a hole in the market, other vendors are looking to step in.

• Hadoop goes to the cloud

  By Brandon Butler | 23 January, 2013 18:18

  Two public cloud service providers have rolled out hosted versions of Hadoop clusters, including SkyTap announcing a partnership with Hadoop distributor Cloudera, and Joyent teaming with HortonWorks on a cloud-based Hadoop service that's available today.

• Tech salaries jump 5.3%, bonuses flat

  By Ann Bednarz | 22 January, 2013 19:09

  Average salaries for tech pros climbed 5.3% to $85,619 last year, up from $81,327 in 2011. It's the largest salary jump in more than a decade, according to career site Dice.

• Startup takes aim at multi-hypervisor management

  By Brandon Butler | 22 January, 2013 18:15

  An updated version of software from startup HotLink aims to ease the management of multi-hypervisor environments, as well as provision off-premises resources, like VMs from Amazon's cloud, all from VMware's vCenter management console.

• Growth of devices, applications changing IT support: Citrix

  By Patrick Budmar | 22 January, 2013 15:58

  Citrix Online saw some "seismic changes" coming to the support arena as early as three years ago.

• Parallels announces Cisco investment

  By Hafizah Osman | 22 January, 2013 12:10

  Virtualisation and Cloud service provider, Parallels, has inked a global partnership with Cisco to deliver Cloud service capabilities to its SMB customers.

• Oracle opens second Aussie datacentre

  By Nermin Bajric | 22 January, 2013 11:26

  Cloud company, Oracle, has opened its second Australian datacentre to meet customer demand for Cloud-based services.

• CIOs to focus on innovation and customer centricity: IDC

  By Nermin Bajric | 21 January, 2013 15:49

  As businesses “continue to operate in volatility,” innovation and consumer centricity will be the top priority for the C-suite due to the combined potential presented by social media, Big Data, mobility, and Cloud computing, according to IDC.

• Attacks on Cloud infrastructure, threats to privacy to continue in 2013: AVG

  By Patrick Budmar | 21 January, 2013 12:56

  Traditional security threats targeting businesses and consumers are not going away anytime soon, though attacks on virtualised Cloud infrastructure may come to the forefront in 2013.

• Adobe expands Cloud offering in A/NZ

  By Hafizah Osman | 21 January, 2013 07:40

  Adobe Systems Incorporated is expanding its Cloud offering, announcing the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud for teams in A/NZ, a new membership option tailored for SMBs.

• Rackspace follows in Facebook's footsteps, plans to build own servers

  By Brandon Butler | 18 January, 2013 23:10

  At the Open Compute Foundation summit held this week, Rackspace announced that it is following in the footsteps of founding OCF member Facebook and will build its own compute and storage servers based on the open standards the foundation has lobbied for.

• Customer education a focus for Tecala in 2013

  By Patrick Budmar | 18 January, 2013 16:28

  The IT industry in general tends to be focused on pushing a product or solution.

• Data will be the new Cloud computing oil in 2013: Ovum

  By Hafizah Osman | 18 January, 2013 09:59

  2013 will see Cloud computing continue to grow rapidly, and data will be the new Cloud computing oil, according to three ‘trends to watch’ reports by independent research firm, Ovum.