Integrated, end-to-end infrastructure solution from HP and VMware to deliver faster time to cloud computing by year end. Read more »

Spirent Communications has announced that Spirent Avalanche Virtual, the industry’s first solution for cloud computing testing, was named the 2010 Best of Interop winner in the performance optimisation category. Read more »

The ACS 2010 Remuneration Survey finds a 3.3% salary increase overall while 45% of private sector employees received no salary increase. Read more »

Employers must check technology box to attract talent as 84% of Aussie workers demand tech-savvy workplaces. Read more »

Research finds 72% of Australian IT decision-makers are on the journey towards the cloud with expectations for private cloud to become the new ‘normal’ for IT infrastructure. Read more »

Discussion paper released on telecommunications overcharging. Read more »

More than one in three Victorian councils chart IT strategy for mobilising ratepayer services. Read more »

Victorian students more than 8000 kilometres apart today chatted live to celebrate the opening of the Connections 2010 classroom exhibit at the World Expo in Shanghai, China. Read more »

According to internet security company AVG Technologies, web surfers in Turkey, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are the most likely to face threats while online. The safest countries seem to be Sierra Leone and Japan. Read more »

Communications Industry’s NBN pioneers honoured as NBN continues despite being under a cloud due to the non-conclusive federal government election result. Read more »

Central Coast’s Verb deploys the first HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD), which reduces power consumption and costs. Read more »

HP launches Replace, Recycle, Reward campaign for old technology. Read more »

Ericsson has delivered 2 million radio base stations as the world heads towards 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Read more »

The National Broadband Network’s 100 Mbps plans must be more affordable. Read more »

Labor and the coalition have debated the respective merits of their NBN policies, and a clear divergence has emerged between them. Read more »

A Coalition government would ditch the national broadband network and seek to offer high-speed internet, using a mix of optical fibre, hybrid fibre coaxial, wireless, DSL and satellite technology.
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Australia’s largest technical education event, Microsoft's Tech.Ed will host more than 2500 IT professionals and developers at the end of August. This year’s theme, ‘Potential Unleashed’, focuses on how IT professionals and software developers can unlock the capabilities in their existing IT investments and innovate with the tools and resources they have today. Read more »

High storage costs, long backup windows, litigation risk and inefficient e-discovery plague companies, survey finds. Read more »

2degrees has enabled 3G voice and mobile broadband services across its network after an extensive program undertaken in partnership with Huawei. The 3G build covers the entire 2degrees network in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Read more »

Pacnet, a provider of telecommunication services, and Pacific Fibre have announced plans to jointly build the Pacific Fibre cable, a city-to-city, low-latency subsea fibre-optic cable that will boost connectivity between Australia, New Zealand and the US. Read more »