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  Q&A: Edith Cowan University, manager of IT infrastructure, Angus Griffin

  Griffin sat down with Computerworld Australia to discuss some of the major issues facing IT managers today and what’s next for ECU.

• IIIS: More pictures from the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium

  Data governance, risk, compliance and much more

• Carbon tax may drive storage virtualization uptake: Hitachi

  The introduction of the new carbon tax on 1 July, 2012 may mean increased energy costs for the IT industry, but at least one storage virtualization vendor has been gearing up for a predicted increase in sales.

• ACU trades NetApp for EMC

  Suffering from poor performance and rapidly approaching capacity, the Australian Catholic University (ACU) made the decision to find a replacement for its NetApp storage infrastructure.

• Charter Hall to migrate to virtual Windows 7 desktops

  Property funds management and development company Charter Hall Group will join the growing number of Australian enterprises taking the plunge to deploy desktop virtualisation across the organisation.

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  Deep dive: SAN and NAS virtualization

  In just a few short years, storage virtualisation, also known as block virtualization, has proven its worth in the large enterprise and traveled that well-worn path from pricey boutique solution to affordable commodity. As a standard feature in all but the most modest mid-tier storage arrays, storage virtualization soothes a wide range of storage management woes for small and mid-size organizations. At the same time, dedicated solutions from top-tier vendors deliver the greatest ROI to large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements.

• Game-changing IT technologies -- and how they affect the everyday worker

  As IT evolves to support everything from virtualized desktops to mobile and social networking, new advances promise to change the way the business side of the house gets the job done. Here's a look at some of IT departments' game-changing technologies and how they affect the everyday worker.

• Going virtual raises storage-management issues

  If you're an IT executive, chances are you're already thinking about storage virtualization. Nearly one-quarter of companies with at least 500 employees have deployed storage virtualization products already, and another 55 percent plan to do so within two years, a recent Gartner survey found.

Whitepapers about storage virtualisation

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  Storage Virtualisation - What to Know and What to Look For

  All too often in IT generally—and in storage infrastructures specifically—there’s a tendency for an “assumption gap” to exist. This paper is an attempt to close that gap; in a pragmatic and accessible manner, it covers the real value of storage virtualisation (from both business and IT perspectives) and offers explanations of the varying storage virtualisation approaches with advice on how to make a technology and vendor decision.

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  Building Virtualised Datacenters and Private Clouds: The Critical Role of Unified and Converged IT Infrastructure

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  Virtualisation and its Impact on Data

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  Liberate Yourself from the Challenges of Data Protection