A group of IT managers that run the systems of some of Australia’s largest charities will host the benchmarking of NetApp’s $1 million storage challenge. NetApp and iTnews put out a call to the industry for applications to host the challenge, which aims to test NetApp’s marketing claim...

The European Commission’s hefty fine on Intel for violating antitrust regulations was inarguably the top IT news of the week. Nothing else came close. 1. EU fines Intel $1.44 billion in antitrust case and Intel CEO ’strongly disagrees’ with ‘baffling’ $1.44B antitrust fine:...

What will Treasurer Wayne Swan’s record $58 billion budget deficit mean for the local IT industry? All eyes will be on Treasurer Wayne Swan tonight as he delivers the 2009/10 Federal Budget. In a blog post yesterday afternoon, Swan prepared the nation for a budget that won’t be popular, saying...

Melbourne IT chief technical officer Glenn Gore gives iTnews a blow-by-blow account of how a SAN failure at WebCentral’s data centre led to 200,000 customers losing e-mail access for three days. At 1:00AM this past Tuesday, technicians at Melbourne IT-owned hosting company WebCentral detected a fault on...

Senior IT professionals are spending a whole working day every week on administration, as businesses seek to cut down on costs, according to research. The poll of IT directors by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by supplier UC4 suggests that 45 per cent of managers in large businesses spend 10 to 20 per cent...