Enterprise IT, Featured, News - Friday, May 18, 2012 15:25 - 1 Comment
HP completes giant new NSW datacentre
news Global technology giant HP has finished building its colossal $119 million new datacentre in Western Sydney and will launch the “world-class” facility next month, with a speech slated to be given by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Details of the facility were revealed in February 2011. At the time, HP South-Pacific Vice President of Enterprise Services, David Caspari (pictured above at the site after it was levelled), said the new datacentre would respond to the growing demand for services that businesses and government face from their customers and communities. The project will involve a building cost of $119 million and is part of HP’s US$1 billion transformation to retire legacy assets and build new facilities. The new facility will occupy an area of more than 130,000 square metres and was previously expected to be fully operational by the end of 2011.
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Enterprise IT, Featured, News - May 18, 2012 15:25 - 1 Comment
HP completes giant new NSW datacentre
news Global technology giant HP has finished building its colossal $119 million new datacentre in Western Sydney and will launch the “world-class” facility next month, with a speech slated to be given by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Details of the facility were revealed in February 2011. At the time, HP South-Pacific Vice President of Enterprise Services, David Caspari (pictured above at the site after it was levelled), said the new datacentre would respond to the growing demand for services that businesses and government face from their customers and communities. The project will involve a building cost of $119 million and is part of HP’s US$1 billion transformation to retire legacy assets and build new facilities. The new facility will occupy an area of more than 130,000 square metres and was previously expected to be fully operational by the end of 2011.
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Blog, Telecommunications - May 18, 2012 14:21 - 5 Comments
China concerned by Huawei NBN ban, says Bob Carr
blog Foreign Minister Bob Carr hit up the ABC’s flagship current affairs program 7:30 last night and was quizzed by host Chris Uhlmann on, among other things, the attitude of Chinese officials to the Federal Government’s move to block Chinese networking gear supplier Huawei from participating in National Broadband Network contracts. We recommend you check out the full transcript and video interview with Carr online here.
Carr has just left China following the kind of open and wide-ranging discussions with Australia’s major partners which new Foreign Ministers often embark upon (he’s now in Japan). The former NSW Premier had this to say about Chinese views on the Huawei ban:
“I think it’s indisputable that China is concerned about this and objects to the decision we made. My position with my Chinese interlocutors is that this decision was made on security grounds and that a government is entitled to make a decision on national broadband infrastructure based on the security and the resilience of that infrastructure. And that’s the position we made. I don’t think any other country in the world would have made a different decision in the circumstances. And I’d like to think that on the bottom line, after due consideration, the Chinese would accept this.”
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Blog, Gadgets - May 17, 2012 15:38 - 8 Comments
Will Telstra skip Nokia’s Lumia 900?
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“We expect the Lumia 900 will be exclusively announced on the OPTUS network for launch … We are of the firm opinion that TELSTRA will not range the Lumia 900. On the surface, it appears their focus is in pushing 4G 1800Mhz capacity and relieving some of the arising 3G 850Mhz congestion issues they have seen”
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