Hitachi Global Storage Technologies unveiled a line of 3TB internal and external hard disk storage drives for business and home applications. The external drive has enough storage for both Mac and PC users to store or backup their digital photos, music libraries, and movie collections, Hitachi...

vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for virtual environments and Layer 2 efficiency. Voltaire’s first Ethernet switch, the Vantage 8500, is the embodiment of the company’s “Scale-Out Ethernet” data center architecture. The switch...

The Sydney West Area Health Service has confirmed a six-hour outage affected access to Nepean Hospital’s electronic medical record system on Saturday. The outage, which a major Sydney daily reported to have also affected NSW Health Technology’s Cumberland data centre, began at about 9am on 2...

ANZ denies it is offshoring 500 jobs to India ANZ has denied media reports it will send 500 new jobs overseas to join the 3,000 Indian staff it employs at its Bangalore “centre for technology excellence and operations.” In a statement to the media, the bank said it “did not...

IBM has leased the last 400 square metres of rack space in Brisbane’s Nextgen data centre to provide multi-site disaster recovery services to Queensland businesses. It’s IBM’s third east-coast disaster recovery lease; it runs dual data centres in Sydney and Melbourne. The suite within...