Business ITSoftware pilot will reduce power plant outages, bring cost savings
By Peter Dinham
A new software application from enterprise asset management software provider, Mainpac, being piloted at wholesale power generator, Delta Electricity’s Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow in New South Wales, will allow maintenance engineers to make faster, better decisions to reduce the frequency and duration of plant outages.
Hitachi Data Systems chief economist David Merrill expects most of the company's customers to move away from the traditional 'purchase and depreciate' model of buying storage to a utility-based consumption model within five years.
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and IBM say they will deliver the world’s first mobile edge computing platform that can run applications directly within a mobile base station.
Exetel is offering unmetered NBN, but only after 1am and before 9am. Download your movies overnight!
Banks in the Asia Pacific region are expected to dedicate additional resources to broadening the range of services they offer their customers, with one global analyst firm predicting the banks will rapidly move to enhance those services with the use of technology as customers continue their fast uptake of online banking.
Skycore, developers of the commercial data collection app, codeREADr, has launched its SD PRO scan engine as an alternative to “expensive” barcode scanning hardware.
IBM opens up to the cloud, warning for vendors on ‘incompatibility’
By Peter Dinham
IBM has just announced that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture, in a move which the company says will ensure that innovation in cloud computing is not “hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of insecure and difficult-to-manage offerings.”
Responding to the BYOD trend, Acronis has announced a way of integrating Macs with an enterprise backup architecture.
Cisco scores Telstra as third Australian Hosted Collaboration Solution customer
By Stuart CornerTelstra has become the third Australian company to announce plans to offer a range of cloud-based unified communications and collaboration services based on Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution.
The latest findings of a new survey reveal that the majority of businesses are now implementing BYOD for media tablets and smartphones and this poses a significant potential threat to the security of their data.
