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News (8)

• Virtualisation saves $1.8m for Corporate Express

  Server virtualisation has saved business supply giant Corporate Express AU$1.8 million and allowed it to ditch more than 90 percent of its existing server hardware.

• Suncorp signs Symantec to protect 20,000 XP PCs

  Suncorp has signed a three-year security and archiving contract with Symantec to protect 20,000 "locked down" Windows XP desktops and servers.

• APEC roadshow ready to move into Sydney

  Besides the 5,000 leaders, politicians, media and delegates expected to roll in to Sydney for the APEC 2007 Leaders' Summit in September, the APEC Taskforce will be literally bringing in its own IT infrastructure.

• Centrelink to cut server costs

  Welfare agency Centrelink has revealed it is moving to simplify its mid-range server fleet, cutting down on costs in the process.

• Virtualisation: The key to a green datacentre?

  Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic symposium in Sydney.

Blogs (3)

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  Keeping the costs of storage down

  Some future trends in storage are obvious: we'll need more of it, it'll be cheaper per megabyte, and a lot of it will be virtualised.

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  Spellr.us needs a new dictionary

  One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes.

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  Virtually large but apparently small

  You've only got to hang around a datacentre for about 30 seconds before someone starts raving on about virtualisation. While the cost benefits of virtualisation are obvious, the management challenges often get swept under the carpet.

Features and Case Studies (6)

• Moore's Law can't stand the heat

  Over the past few years, the amount of electricity required to power a server in a datacentre has more than doubled. In this special report, we look at why many datacentres today are facing a power and cooling crisis.

• Green your datacentre or it may go dark

  Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

• Datacentre 2020: Data security gets physical

  In 2020, datacentres are estimated to be cleaner, greener and more flexible but will they be any safer?

• Blades of gold -- a virtual migration

  Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines is in the process of moving its IT infrastructure from a fleet of traditional servers to virtual servers running on blade hardware.

• Virtual infrastructure, at your servers

  Thin clients, make way for a new competitor: hosted, virtual servers and desktops are finally changing the way corporate Australia manages its IT infrastructure.

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