OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
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Renai LeMay
Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:15
IT Policy - Government Tech Policy
The Federal Department of Finance and Deregulation has flagged plans to upgrade its network infrastructure to deal with single points of failure in its existing infrastructure and plan for the future — likely including the eventual deployment of an IP telephony/unified communications platform.
In request for tender documents issued this week, Finance said its corporate data network was centred on its two datacentres located within the John Gordon Building in Barton in Canberra (mainly production systems) and the Hume Joint Operations Centre (mainly disaster recovery).
Data travelling through the department’s internal network generally travelled through a redundant core located in the John Gorton Building, Finance wrote.
However, this created a “single point of failure” in the network, exposing Finance to “the risk of an unacceptable outage of critical business processes” if the John Gorton facility went down.
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