Stories by Hamish Barwick

Slideshow: ANZ Bank CIO Anne Weatherston announces five year IT roadmap

ANZ Bank has announced its technology roadmap to 2017 which is designed to facilitate two decades of continued growth through the integration of Australia and New Zealand with the Asia Pacific to form a super-regional business.

Updated: Pacnet, Global Switch confirm data centre power incident

Sydney-based data centre provider, Global Switch, has traced a power incident which affected some customers back to a unnamed contractor who accidentally initiated a fire trip system shutdown on one of its uninterruptible power supply (UPS) groups.

REA Group lists with hybrid Cloud

Melbourne-based REA Group (ASX:REA), operator of property website realestate.com.au, has implemented VMware's hybrid vCloud to aid its overseas expansion and Web application development over the next few years.

ASG Group, Vocus confirm customers will take carbon tax hit

Data centre operators ASG Group and Vocus have confirmed that they will pass on some increases in energy costs associated with the Gillard Government's carbon tax to customers after 1 July next year.

Minerals and Metal Group mines hybrid Cloud

Chinese-owned mining company, Minerals and Metals Group (MMG), has implemented Hewlett Packard's (HP) hybrid Cloud to overhaul its IT infrastructure as the company prepares for expansion into mineral rich countries over the next three years.

Cisco faces uphill battle in Aussie tablet market with Cius: Ovum

Cisco will face an uphill battle when it charges into the already saturated tablet PC market with the 31 July Australian launch of its Cius dual IP phone and tablet device, analyst firm Ovum has argued.

NextDC predicts substantial power price increase for company following carbon tax

NextDC chief executive, Bevan Slattery, has predicted that it may be incurring costs of "2.7 cents per kilo watt" at its Melbourne facility once the Gillard Government's carbon tax comes into affect on 1 July, 2012.

Facebook Skype arrangement to force telco's hand on mobile rates: Ovum

Australian telecommunication providers may be forced to look at other revenue streams and cut calling rates in the future as Facebook and Skype begin offering free video calls, according to analyst firm, Ovum.

Aussie banks divided over mobile security education

Some of the big four banks are divided over claims by a National Australia Bank (NAB) fraud specialist that more needs to be done to educate customers about the risks of banking using mobile devices

SKA telescope to generate more data than entire Internet in 2020

The forthcoming $2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope could generate more data per day than the entire internet when it comes online in 2020, according to the director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Professor Peter Quinn.

AGIMO wraps up data centre panels for now

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has all but finalised vendors for its data centre migration and facilities panels following an extensive selection process which began in November 2010.

Kiandra sets sights on state, federal ICT services contracts

Melbourne-based services provider, Kiandra IT, has scored an ICT services contract with the WA Government to offer business intelligence (BI), SharePoint and custom software development services to all of its departments.

No end in sight for Net data boom: ACMA

The need for higher speeds and increased data caps has been highlighted by an Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) study which found that Australian internet users downloaded an average 18.8 gigabytes of data per user as of December 2010.

Apple now in Anonymous' sights

Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed another company scalp, this time an Apple server in the US which it claimed to have compromised this week.

Green rush coming for data centres

As a famous frog once said, “it’s not that easy being green”. Like Kermit, data centres owners and users will have to learn to love it or lump it if the Federal Government’s carbon tax proposal goes ahead within the next two years.