News

• AAPT looks forward to $50 million cloud business

  By Spandas Lui | 03 August, 2011 12:24

  With a plan to offer more cloud-based services, a $50 million revenue goal for AAPT’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) business is a reasonable target in the next few years, according to the telco’s CEO, David Yuile.

• Oracle making Java, Solaris certifications pricier

  By Chris Kanaracus | 02 March, 2011 07:05

  Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars.

• Sice joins Acronis

  By Julia Talevski | 17 February, 2011 11:07

  Backup and recovery vendor, Acronis, has hired Karl Sice as its new Pacific general manager.

• Oracle moves Sun docs, sparking user debate

  By Chris Kanaracus | 28 January, 2011 07:10

  Oracle's recent move to switch Sun Microsystems documentation to Oracle support infrastructure has some users up in arms, since the original links currently redirect to a general table of contents.

• CSC renews $107m Immigration deal

  By Julia Talevski | 17 January, 2011 12:51

  Integrator, CSC, has renewed its contract with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to the tune of $107 million.

• itX reports solid year despite hardware challenges

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 27 October, 2010 15:18

  Despite “a tough and uncertain trading environment,” itX Group Limited got off to an excellent start and posted a record first half result, according to its 2010 annual report.

• Industry backs Avnet and itX move

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 27 August, 2010 09:19

  The $77.5 million potential acquisition of itX by global player, Avnet, has been heralded as a wise move by the broader industry, which is unconcerned that the consolidation is a sign of a shrinking distribution market, or one that favours global distributors.

• Applaud hires Richards as managed services practice manager

  By Julia Talevski | 03 August, 2010 13:51

  IT managed services provider, Applaud, has hired Mark Richards as its managed services practice manager based in Sydney.

• Oracle: Sun partners are important to our strategy

  By Julia Talevski | 26 July, 2010 14:42

  Oracle is touting its message of change and partner integration, urging Sun partners to get involved with specialisations.

• Frontline builds an Oracle practice

  By Nadia Cameron | 06 May, 2010 12:28

  Sun partner and systems integrator, Frontline Systems, is building out an Oracle practice to take advantage of the Oracle/Sun merger.

• Oracle announces Sun channel specialisations

  By ARN Staff | 04 May, 2010 09:44

  Oracle has released a raft of new channel specialisations as part of plans to integrate and better recognise partners across Oracle and Sun technologies.

• Hackers exploit new Java zero-day bug

  By Gregg Keizer | 15 April, 2010 06:30

  Just five days after a Google researcher published information of an unpatched Java bug, a compromised song lyrics site is sending users to a Russian attack server exploiting the flaw to install malware, an antivirus firm said today.

• Sun's Solaris now getting quarterly security patches

  By Robert McMillan | 09 April, 2010 09:45

  Oracle has moved Solaris onto its quarterly security patch schedule, meaning users of the Sun Microsystems operating system will now know months in advance when they will be getting security updates.

• Enterprises are migrating from Sun to HP

  By Anuradha Shukla | 07 April, 2010 07:40

  Recession has made companies more cost-sensitive and this has increased the popularity of solutions from HP, according to two separate research reports by Gabriel Consulting Group and Alinean Inc.

• Server vendors focus on memory in Nehalem-EX servers

  By Agam Shah | 31 March, 2010 08:44

  Orthodox server designs are receiving a face-lift with Intel's Nehalem-EX processor, with vendors implementing new memory features to boost application performance.