Cloud

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News bytes for week of July 14, 2014

New NICTA software lab; NBN cost-benefit analysis (part 1) is out; billions invested in the cloud; and more.

News Bytes

News bytes for week of June 30, 2014

Shell refuels with HP; Telstra invests in security software outfit; NAB's top tech women, Bitcoin start-ups wanted.

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Telstra to guard premises; Maestrano to orchestrate easier cloud; Talent unleashes awards.

Cloud

Optus gearing up to fight Telstra on cloud turf

Andrew Colley Optus is preparing to tread on Telstra’s turf in the cloud computing market after securing a long overdue partnership with Microsoft.

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Expansion

Telstra takes cloud to US for global coverage

Stuart Corner Telstra has ramped up its push into the global IT services market with the opening of a Telstra cloud hub in the US.

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Bits and bytes

News bytes for week of June 16, 2014

Aussie DesignCrowd has just added 600,000 new users to its stable by buying a competitor; cloud investment is growing and which bank has a new CIO.

Wearables

Salesforce jumps into wearables

Lia Timson Business cloud software company Salesforce is hoping to do to wearable computers what Apple did to smartphones: make them pervasive in the corporate world.

Leadership

Dell Australia farewells Kremer, moves Fox to top job

Lia Timson Joe Kremer, the long-serving managing director of Dell Australia New Zealand, is leaving the company at the end of July to pursue other interests.

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Data centres

Stuart Corner Data centre infrastructure providers are seeing an upsurge of interest in their prefabricated or modular offerings, which are forecast to take a much bigger share of the market over the next few years.

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Weather Met Obs Antarctica: Issued 12:13, May 9

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Bureau of Meteorology Weather Observations : Antarctica Updated: Fri May 9 02:11:11 UTC 2014 (0211 UTC) Observations have not been quality controlled. -- indicates quantity not available. Latitude South and longitude East are positive. Day of month and hour are in UTC. Total cloud is reported in octants. Temperatures are in degrees Celsius (dC). Bar is mean sea level pressure, or QNH if preceded by Q. Rain amount (if reported) is over the last number of hours as indicated, or 9%10 indicates rain recorded since last 9 a.m. (local time). Tx/Tn are max/min temperatures reported around 9a.m. daily. Format last changed: 15 Jul 1999 +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+Station Lat/Long Day/hour Vis Cld Wind Temp RH Bar Rain Weather Tx/Tn name deg S/E - - km - knot degC % hPa mm hr - degC+------------------------------------- start ----------------------------------+Casey 6628 11052 09 0000 30 2 S/010-16 81 997.7 ---/-- Fine -- --Davis 6858 7797 09 0000 .3 8 ENE/029 -5 89 987.8 ---/-- Snow -- --Heard Is 5311 7372 09 0000 -- - ---/--- -2 -- 988.3 ---/-- ---- -- --Mawson 6760 6287 09 0000 -- - NNE/007-14 48 996.1 ---/-- Fine -- -- AAP

Cloud

SAP technology chief Vishal Sikka steps down in cloud overhaul

Serena Saitto SAP, the largest maker of businesses-management software, shuffles executives to cope with demand for cloud services.

Digitisation

Schools jump online taking parents with them

Sylvia Pennington Australian schools have embraced online systems automating everything from canteen ordering to selling seats at the end of year concert.

Internet of Things

London's Tube on track to join Internet of Things

Lia Timson Next time you get stuck at a train station escalator, spare a thought for the way everything will be connected to everything in the future.

Cloud

Dropbox claims Australian data safe despite hiring Condoleezza Rice

Nate Cochrane Dropbox is battling to reassure its Australian customers that their data is safe from US mass surveillance.

Cloud

Retail warning: competition blowing in on a cloud

Nate Cochrane Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services are bringing the days of cozy competition to an end.

Procurement

Queensland government signs Microsoft Office 365 deal to save $13.7 million

Sylvia Pennington Queensland's 149,000 public servants will move to the cloud after a $26.5 million global contract was signed.

Customer service

Tech support is not what it used to be

Drew Turney Obtaining tech support used to be as easy as calling up and waiting until someone who knew gadgets better than you worked out how to fix yours. But Apple, social media and cloud computing changed all that.