Cloud

Google joins competition in the cloud

Quentin Hardy Google announces pricing, features and performance guarantees aimed at companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals.

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Analysis

Data centres are the new black

One of the rack rooms at the newly opened Digital Realty data centre in Deer Park, Melbourne. It has dual power supply (blue and amber cabinets).

Lia Timson There's a buzz in the air akin to an art exhibition opening. It's the latest data centre launch. Really.

Surveillance

NSA spying risks $35b technology sales

Nicole Gaouette International anger over the US surveillance is hurting global sales by technology companies and setting back US efforts to promote internet freedom.

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Privacy

Call for better privacy protection in the cloud

Drew Turney Consumers deserve better protection when it comes to agreeing to online cloud services, a law professor has warned.

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Data centre

What to look for in a data centre

Stuart Corner At its most basic a data provides four services: a secure space to house your gear; power for your gear; cooling to remove the excess heat and connectivity to the rest of the world. Beyond those basics there are many variables. We talk to industry experts to get the low down.

Cloud gaming

Xbox One and PlayStation 4: the last of the consoles?

The new XBox One went on sale in Australia at midnight, Friday November 22.

Nate Cochrane Cloud computing is changing the game.

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Management

Use technology for good, share your profits: tech boss tells the world

(L-R) Happy Hearts Fund founder Petra Nemcova, Haiti prime minister Laurent Lamothe and actor Sean Penn greet Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff at the 2013 Dreamforce conference.

Matthew Hall Marc Benioff used his Dreamforce keynote to call on his customers to donate to charities, non-profit organisations, and non-government organisations.

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Innovation

Suncorp's hackathon reboot

Nate Cochrane Atlassian’s cultural clout is being felt in the panelled offices of one of nation’s top banks as Suncorp adopts the Australian software developer’s innovative way to solve business problems.

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Virtualisation

Amazon's virtual workspaces draw Australian interest

Nate Cochrane Australian companies have rushed to register interest in Workspaces, a virtual desktop technology from cloud giant Amazon Web Services, despite it not being available in Australia until at least next year.

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Communications

Pacnet offers on-demand bandwidth between data centres

Pacnet: The new service allows uers to 'dial up' bandwidth on demand.

Stuart Corner A new service gives big customers of communications capacity the ability to "dial up" bandwidth on demand.

Software

Coca Cola to pour data into Microsoft

Coca Cola Amatil chief information officer Warwick Hutton wants employees to have access to company data with less fuss.

Lia Timson Coca Cola will switch on a number of cloud applications so that data can flow to its employees, sellers and even truck drivers.

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Software

Coca Cola to pour data into Microsoft

Lia Timson Coca Cola will switch on a number of cloud applications so that data can flow to its employees, sellers and even truck drivers.

Innovation

All companies are technology companies now

Michelle Jones from Blerick Tree Farm visiting her crop in China.

Sylvia Pennington Technology is revolutionising the way even the smallest and most traditional businesses manage their operations.

Big data

Corporate giants expand Industrial Internet

General Electric has announced partnerships with AT&T;, Cisco and Intel to expand the industrial internet.

Cloud computing

Verizon to scout Australian cloud

John Considine, chief technology officer, Verizon Terremark.

Nate Cochrane US telco Verizon is considering data centres in Sydney and Canberra to take on Amazon in the burgeoning Australian cloud market.

Procurement

NSW to take to the cloud, develop digital strategy

NSW Minister for Finance and Services Andrew Constance seeing here in during a press conference. File

Sylvia Pennington Increasing government use of cloud computing and improving the skills of government IT workers are next on the NSW technology reform agenda.

Cloud

Cash Converters convert to cloud

Stuart Corner Retail chain Cash Converters claims to have converted technology problems into significant savings by moving its worldwide store system into the cloud.

Cloud

Canon Australia taps cloud to give consumers one photo bucket

Stuart Corner Canon Australia will soon launch a cloud image storage service to give consumers a definitive home for all the photographs they might have spread across multiple websites and computers.