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  • 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.

  • Oz users give new Microsoft server suite thumbs-up

    Early adopters of Microsoft's new suite of enterprise products have given the vendor an initial thumbs-up.

  • 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.

  • WebCentral arms itself for storage explosion

    Web hosting company WebCentral is investing AU$1 million in new SAN, virtualisation and blade server technology to steel itself for exponential growth in data storage requirements.

  • 'Green' ANZ CIO wages war on servers

    ANZ CIO Peter Dalton is on a mission to remove as many as 400 servers from the bank's infrastructure by the year's end as part of its ambitious environmental targets.

  • Tucci eyes MS attack on VMware 'gem'

    Virtualisation technology may mean customers buy less hardware, according to chief executive of storage giant EMC, Joe Tucci, but he believes he must continue to grow his VMware "gem" before competitors, such as Microsoft, take over the market.

  • Novell denies 'unstable' Xen claims

    The chief technology officer (CTO) of Novell's Open Platform Solutions Group, Markus Rex, has hit back at criticism the company included an "unstable" Xen virtualisation environment in its new Linux server, pointing to support from hardware partners.

  • Straight to the source: Green and Redman

    We put Steve Redman, MD of EMC Australia, up against Simon Green, MD of Network Appliance Australia and watch the sparks fly.

  • 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.

  • Everything is big in Queensland

    Queensland never does anything by halves.

  • CBA employs virtualisation to aid consolidation

    The Commonwealth Bank will rationalise its data processing centres, mainframes and servers over the next few years as the bank improves efficiency and cut costs.

  • Small businesses pull the shutters on Vista

    Small business users, like larger enterprises, are in no rush to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista with hardware requirements, a lack of interoperability with business applications and cost of the new operating system the major stumbling blocks.

  • The green datacentre -- an oxymoron?

    The datacentre is the first and most obvious place the IT industry has looked at in addressing its overzealous consumption of power. But is the industry's hungriest power user capable of "going green"?

  • Novell in 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement

    Linux vendor Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux.

  • CBA signs up providers for new outsourcing era

    EDS has won a AU$573 million extension on its mainframe and midrange services contract with the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) as the institution moves to recast its supplier relationships once a decade-long Big Bang outsourcing deal between the two expires.

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