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• Samsung targets enterprises and consumers with Galaxy S III

  By Hafizah Osman | 31 May, 2012 17:40

  Samsung Electronics is not only targeting the newly launched Galaxy S III at consumers but also enterprises, Samsung Australia vice-president of telecommunications, Tyler McGee, claimed.

• Carbon tax: Silver lining to taxing times

  By Hafizah Osman | 28 May, 2012 07:57

  Channel businesses should be planning on how to deal with forthcoming Carbon Tax now, according to experts.

• CeBIT 2012: Cloud productivity requires help from industries and agencies

  By Nermin Bajric | 22 May, 2012 13:36

  Making the Cloud productive requires the aid of external contributors in addition to a calculated strategy, according to Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) first assistant secretary, Glenn Archer.

• EMC backs its channel with Cloud solutions

  By Mike Gee | 22 May, 2012 12:35

  EMC has announced a bunch of new initiatives and products to enable channel partners to accelerate their customers’ journey to the Cloud.

• Santos and Horizon Power select Red Hat technology

  By Hafizah Osman | 19 May, 2012 20:40

  Western Australian regional and remote electricity provider, Horizon Power, and oil and gas producer, Santos, have implemented technologies from open source company, Red Hat.

• Datacentre spend to hit $3 billion: DPSA

  By Hafizah Osman | 20 May, 2012 18:00

  The datacentre spend in Australia is expected to grow from $2 billion in 2010 to $3 billion this year, according to DPSA national datacentre architect, Jason Rylands.

• VMWare announces View 5.1 for post-PC era

  By Patrick Budmar | 04 May, 2012 10:16

  The post-PC era is here and VMware is aiming to capitalise on it with the latest version of its View software, 5.1.

• 6YS uses Brocade to address Cloud evolution

  By Nermin Bajric | 01 May, 2012 15:35

  Australian hosted application and Cloud computing services provider, 6YS, has replaced its Gigabit Ethernet and fiber channel infrastructure with Brocade’s VDX 6720 datacentre switches to serve as a foundation for its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, Ironpoint.

• AppSense: A busy year ahead

  By Hafizah Osman | 01 May, 2012 15:16

  It has been about eight months since Michael Bosnar replaced Sean Walsh as AppSense A/NZ managing director. HAFIZAH OSMAN spoke to him about some of the challenges the company has faced and the company’s expansion strategies.

• Q&A: Austereo CIO Ross Forgione

  By Lisa Banks | 09 September, 2010 09:53

  What does an average work day involve for you at Austereo? The average day at Austereo is an adventure. It's a combination of managing daily operational needs and activities and taking on the new challenges associated with an organisation that continually pushes itself and the traditional boundaries of our industry.

• Q&A: EMC's Brian Gallagher touts the new VPLEX appliance

  By Lucas Mearian | 13 May, 2010 05:55

  Brian Gallagher , president of EMC 's Symmetrix & Virtualization Product Group, sat down with Computerworld at EMC's annual user conference, EMC World, to talk about the company's new VPLEX synchronous data replication product . Gallagher explained what differentiates it from rival products and EMC's existing offerings, such as Symmetric Remote Data Facility [SRDF] replication technology and Invista storage virtualization software.

• Distributors direction: Getting more mileage out of existing assets

  By Nadia Cameron | 04 March, 2009 16:23

  itX general manager, Greg Newham, is gearing up to take advantage of increasing demand for virtualisation and on-demand software. He met up with NADIA CAMERON to talk about the economic climate, itX’s plans for 2009 and why there are still growth opportunities in the market.

• The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy

  By Paul Krill and Eric Knorr | 03 November, 2008 08:32

  Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows developers transition from Windows client development to Windows cloud development, using familiar tools, both those from Microsoft and other sources such as Eclipse. Developers would continue to develop apps on their desktops, but the Azure platform would handle the app deployment in the cloud.

• McAfee looks to security in virtual environments

  By Tim Greene | 21 October, 2008 10:36

  McAfee is hunkering down to integrate the security technologies it has bought over the past several months into its varied line of security software and appliances. Two trends in the company's activities are developing parallel products for deployment as software on endpoints and as network-based appliances. This week, for instance, the company is announcing that NAC software can be installed on its IntruShield IPS appliance to give customers the option of enforcing NAC policies in the network, not just on the endpoint. The company is bringing management of these platforms under control of its ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) in an effort to centralize control of network security. Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene spoke with McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt about these efforts as well as other issues facing the company.

• Exec: MS virtualization one-third the price of VMware's

  By Eric Lai | 09 September, 2008 10:43

  Bob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president in charge of infrastructure server marketing, gave the morning keynote speech at Monday's "Get Virtualization" event in the US. The event had 1,000 attendees and kicks off a series of worldwide shows that may eventually have 175,000 attendees total. Kelly spoke to Computerworld about his company's virtualization efforts; excerpts from that interview follow.

• Technology argument 3: Virtualization vs. native apps

  By Joab Jackson | 04 November, 2011 09:54

  About a year ago, a few of the larger virtualization software vendors, such as VMware and CA Technologies, started campaigning against a phenomena that they called virtual stall.

• Just rewards

  By Stephen Bell | 21 April, 2010 08:10

  Brett Hibbert has been working for Loyalty NZ, which runs the FlyBuys loyalty scheme, for five years, and as its head of IT and operations for the past 12 months. Before he moved into his present role, Hibbert's experience was in mainstream business, with an emphasis on merchandising. His knowledge and involvement in ICT evolved as he worked across Loyalty NZ.

• Cloud Computing: How big is big data? IDC's answer

  By Bernard Golden | 08 May, 2010 00:37

  I came across a link to a new report from IDC called the "2010 Digital Universe Study".

• Desktop Virtualization: Comparing Options Frustrates IT

  By Kevin Fogarty | 04 May, 2010 04:55

  Virtual desktops-once the most rigid, least friendly way to put applications in front of end users-have become a hot topic by promising to deliver the security and easy maintenance that was always desktop virtualization's strength. The trouble: Desktop virtualization now comes in so many varieties that even vendors confuse terms referring to the flavors.

• SMB Virtualisation: Taking the virtualisation journey

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 21 April, 2010 18:58

  It’s not new technology, but to SMBs, virtualisation can still be a scary unknown quantity. MATTHEW SAINSBURY investigates ways partners and vendors can allay those fears to the profit of everyone.

• Cloud, Virtualization: Wasting IT Resources

  By Kevin Fogarty | 01 March, 2010 06:20

  Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren't taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste them.

• Saving money, space and energy with blade virtualisation

  By Lisa Shorr | 18 February, 2010 08:51

  In 1986, Attorney Nicholas Barrett founded Nicholas Barrett & Associates with just himself and an assistant running the business. But over the last 24 years, that small two-person office has grown into a bustling 45-person law firm specializing in litigation, real estate law, collections, and loan servicing.

• NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization

  By Joab Jackson | 05 February, 2010 04:33

  New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtualized operating systems.