• Telecom NZ to expand cloud with Revera acquisition

  Telecom NZ has agreed to pay $96.5 million to acquire IT infrastructure and data centre company Revera Limited in a move meant to deepen the telco’s range of cloud services for business customers.

• NBN Co ready to work with any political party

  NBN Co will adapt to the broadband plans of a new government regime if the Coalition wins the September elections, NBN Co head of product and sales, John Simon, said at the CommsDay conference today in Sydney.

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  Stoner pushes collaboration for innovation in NSW

  The New South Wales government today launched its $6.7 million Innovate NSW initiative, providing grants and other support to startups.

• NAB trialling BYOD

  The National Australia Bank is trialling a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program for its top 200 executives, according to Adam Bennett, NAB executive manager of enterprise transformation.

• Telstra wraps fibre project in South Brisbane

  Telstra said it finished migrating South Brisbane copper services to fibre ahead of schedule. The telco moved 18,000 services to fibre, covering 13,000 homes and businesses in the area, it said.

• CIOs take new look at sharing IT infrastructure, apps

  The world's top hotel companies have collectively invested tens of millions of dollars to implement their own customized reservation systems--considered the heart of their operations. Each hotelier views the capabilities of these systems as providing them with some competitive advantage over how they calculate rates and room availability.

Whitepapers about infrastructure

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  Managing at Petabyte Scale

  Given the proliferation of external source-generated information, it's no wonder that stored data growth within the data centre now averages 50 - 80% on a compounded annual growth rate basis. This growth is only expected to accelerate - not decrease - and many enterprises should prepare to manage storage at the petabyte scale. This resource proposes a method for today's enterprise to handle this data - storage equipped for the petabyte scale. Check it out now to discover the attributes of a storage infrastructure that can be managed at the petabyte scale and learn how you can turn these attributes into concrete features of your storage.

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  Australian Red Cross Blood Service Enhances the Performance of Its Mission-Critical Applications

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  ASIC Optimises and Promotes Network Automation Using HP Software

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  Defending Against Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Attacks