Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesA peering arrangement which will see Australia’s Academic and Research Network – AARNet - link directly to Amazon Web Services in Seattle and provide unmetered connection, is likely to spur the adoption of cloud services by Australia’s universities and research institutions.
Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARNet, plans to launch a free videoconferencing service for students, researchers and academics in 37 Australian universities and the CSIRO before the end of the year.
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesIBM is now offering access to its SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud service out of a data centre in NSW, ratcheting up competition among the slew of other local cloud service providers including major players such as Fujitsu, HP, Telstra and CSC.
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: StrategyUK based Thunderhead, which supplies systems to manage all forms of communications, including social network interactions, between enterprises and their customers is planning on launching a cloud version of its system later this year, and is contemplating hosting a data centre in Australia.
Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARnet, is hoping to get an 80 terabit per second communications trial up and running later this, or early next, year as it responds to the dramatically rising data demands of researchers which are doubling each year. The organisation has also finally released its five year strategic plan, several months after it was originally slated.
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ComputingThe first five nodes of the $50 million Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) project have been announced.
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: NetworkingMore than four out of five Australian organisations want their data kept onshore when they adopt cloud computing.
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesME Bank, which is a third of the way through a four year technology transformation including an overhaul of its core banking system, has settled on a Cisco/NetApp FlexPod solution running VMware as the platform for developing a private internal cloud.
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesAny lingering scepticism about cloud computing has evaporated with almost six out of ten local organisations now using cloud services in some form or another, and almost two out of three organisations recognising that to ignore cloud services is to risk competitive disadvantage.
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