Perth based Kitchenware Direct is planning a major assault on Myer and David Jones with the release of its new online commerce venture Avago.com.au scheduled for launch in August.

Adoption of cloud computing has reached a tipping point  - but don’t expect legacy systems to disappear for at least two more decades according to Paul Daugherty, chief technology architect of Accenture.

HP has announced new services to analyse and optimise enterprise network performance.

The NSW Department of Education and Communities has awarded Optus a five year contract worth around $15m to provide satellite services for its distance learning programme.

Perth based Kitchenware Direct wants to be one of the first 100 companies in the world to use NetSuite’s Commerce as a Service offering which was announced this week.

A new generation of thin client devices reduce the cost of virtual desktop implementations.

Regional ICT specialist Pacnet is more than quadrupling the size of its CloudSpace1 data centre in Sydney, apparently unfazed by the likely impact of the carbon tax and resulting electricity price rises estimated to be as high as 16 per cent.

Not for profit technology business Infoxchange Australia has signed up around 20 not for profit organisations to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud, and about 30 NFPs for a cloud based CRM system.

Actian has added geospatial support to a new edition of its Ingres database.

New products and feature changes to Juniper's Simply Connected family make it easier to enforce security policies, even in a BYOD environment.

University and research supercomputing is being revolutionised by the march of platforms built using commodity graphics processor chips used in games machines and mobile phones. Queensland University of Technology and the University of Melbourne are the latest to take the plunge.

Japan and USA understand the new OpenFlow technology to virtualise data centre networking. The rest of the world will soon follow.

Optus promised that it would launch its LTE service in the Newcastle area in April but what it has unveiled is a limited trial to selected customers, with no indication of when the service will be generally available, and has said that the first commercial service will be in Sydney and Melbourne.

Australian film makers could benefit from the digital distribution disruption which has now reached the movie world. Just as books and music have undergone distribution revolutions, the film industry is now, courtesy of increasingly ubiquitous and faster broadband communications networks, enduring a major shift which is impacting content creation, distribution and the ability to protect intellectual property.

Global satellite network operator Inmarsat has teamed up with Honeywell to provide in-flight broadband Internet access to the world's airlines and private and government aircraft operators.

With one eye on the Square Kilometre Array bid, AARNet has announced a substantial upgrade to its connectivity with the rest of the world.

The latest software for the Citrix NetScaler appliance family includes technology to improve scalability.

Arista's Application Switch allows latency-sensitive applications to run in the network.

'Trust me' was never going to be enough of a guarantee for users of cloud services. But how can savvy cloud users ensure that the service their end users are getting matches what their cloud vendors promise? And how can cloud vendors monitor end user experiences?

Adelaide based Flinders University is reviewing its entire information and technology approach with the recently installed CIO keen to shift increasing amounts of computing to the cloud.