Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on Rackspace's OpenStack platform.

Telecommunications provider, Optus Business, has announced its integration with IT services arm, Alphawest, to create a single ICT organisation with intent to serve the end-to-end needs of the Australian business and government market.

Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud.

Secure managed services company, TAS Managed Services, has named a new chief information officer and a new chief operating officer.

Telecommunications company, Macquarie Telecom, will host the ‘Orange’ research-dedicated supercomputer in its Intellicentre 2(IC2) datacentre as part of an agreement with e-research services organisation, Intersect.

Data and Internet Protocol (IP) services provider, NTT Communications, has been selected to create and implement a full managed, whole of business solution for tyre distributor, Yokohoma Tyre Australia (YTA).

Print vendor, Lanier, has purchased IT services provider, Inspire IT for an undisclosed sum, signalling a shift in company direction for the vendor.

Managed security services have been growing in popularity over the past several years, and the latest task enterprises are looking to offload to an outside provider is security information management.

Singtel-owned telco Optus is provide telecommunications and managed networks service to the ANZ bank under a new $500 million, five year contract.