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Submission + - Salesforce's secret sauce (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @12:44AM

schliz writes: Salesforce.com's head of infrastructure Steve Fisher has explained how it uses commodity hardware and custom software to provide software as a service to some 100,000 customers around the world. Instead of using virtualization, Salesforce treats all customer data as part of a single application server and database, and presents customers with the "illusion" of their own environments through metadata.

Submission + - Amazon to launch Sydney data centre (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Thursday November 08, 2012 @10:11PM

schliz writes: Amazon Web Services will unveil its first Australian data centres on Tuesday, ending more than a year of speculation. The move is expected to address enterprises' data soverignty and latency concerns, although local cloud providers argue that data held by US company Amazon would still be subject to the Patriot Act.

Submission + - Bank puts 1b transaction records behind analytics site (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:15PM

schliz writes: Australia's UBank has put a billion real-world transaction records behind a website that allows users to compare their spending habits with others of the same gender, in the same age/income range, neighborhood and living situation. The 'PeopleLikeU' tool surfaces favorite shops and restaurants surprisingly accurately — because it's based on real customers' transactions, it lists places like good takeout joints that wouldn't normally come to mind when you think of a favorite place to eat. The bank says all data was 'deidentified' and it consulted with privacy authorities.

Submission + - Aussie man survives garbage truck after laptop search (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @12:21AM

schliz writes: A Western Australian man had to be rescued from a garbage truck this morning, after being tipped in while he was searching for his laptop in a city dumpster. The driver heard screams coming from the back of the truck at about 4.30am and called police.

Submission + - First three-strikes copyright court case in NZ falls over (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Bismillah on Thursday October 18, 2012 @11:23PM

Bismillah writes: The "Skynet" anti-filesharing aw introduced last year in New Zealand is starting to bite, with people being hauled in front of the Copyright Tribunal by the music industry after receiving three notices.

Of the three Copyright Tribunal cases to be heard currently, the first one's just been dropped. Why? Nobody knows. RIANZ isn't saying.

Interesting things: the accused was the ISP account holder, a student sharing a place with others who also used the Internet connection.

The cost of the five songs downloaded is NZ$11.95 but RIANZ wanted NZ$1,075.50 because it estimated the music was shared/downloaded 90 times in total.

A high deterrent penalty of NZ$1,250 was also asked for.

Submission + - Privacy advocates oppose Aussie data breach laws (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Thursday October 18, 2012 @07:53PM

schliz writes: This week, Australia's Attorney-General released a discussion paper about introducing laws that would force companies to notify members of the public any time personal information about that customer falls into the wrong hands. California introduced similar mandatory data breach notification laws in 2003, but Australian privacy advocates are now opposing the move, saying it's a decade too late.

Submission + - Aussie Tax Office wants phone tapping, data retention (itnews.com.au) 1

Submitted by schliz on Thursday August 23, 2012 @11:55PM

schliz writes: The Australian Taxation Office has called for phone-tapping powers while backing a controversial proposal to force telcos to store web traffic and subscriber data for up to two years. It said such data may be crucial to investigations, with the Commissioner of Taxation previously explaining that the connection between criminals and their finances made them "especially vulnerable to revenue collection agencies, because of the ability to identify the discrepancy between their wealthy lifestyle and modest tax declarations".

The Tax Office's statements come after this week's passage of new legislation that will allow law enforcement agencies to force internet service providers to store data on subscribers while an official warrant is sought.

Submission + - Australia passes 'lite' data retention laws (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @04:57AM

schliz writes: Australian parliament has passed a bill that will allow law enforcement agencies to force internet service providers to store data on subscribers while an official warrant is sought.

The changes move Australia closer to its two-year-old proposal to accede to the 2004 Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, designed to assist with international cybercrime investigations through sharing of information on persons of interest, among other avenues.

Submission + - Amadeus commits €16.3m to improving data centre uptime (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Sunday August 12, 2012 @10:14PM

schliz writes: Travel industry IT giant Amadeus has spoken out about major outages that delayed passengers of Qantas, Finnair, Air Canada, Southwest Airlines, Air France, KLM, and others in recent years.
In 1996, Amadeus systems were used predominantly by travel agents, and handled about 27 queries for each airline booking. This has grown to 270 queries per booking — over a billion queries a day — thanks to how customers are now using the system to check and book their travel directly on the web.

Submission + - Computing for the Large Hadron Collider (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:06PM

schliz writes: iTnews in Australia has published an interview with CERN's deputy head of IT, David Foster, who explains what last month's discovery of a "particle consistent with the Higgs Boson" means for the organisation's IT department, why it needs a second "Tier Zero" data centre, and how it is using grid computing and the cloud.

Submission + - Hackers release AAPT data to protest Aussie policies (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26, 2012 @12:19AM

An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous is releasing some of the 40GB of data it claims to have stolen from Australian internet service provider AAPT. The hack is reportedly in protest against Australia's proposed data retention regime, which would mandate ISPs to collect and hold transmission data from its users for up to two years.

Submission + - Australian Army upgrades battle simulator (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Friday July 20, 2012 @02:48AM

schliz writes: The Australian Army has spent $2.8m on upgrading a core battlefield simulation system that it has used since 2005, to train soldiers deploying to Iraq. The software is developed by Bohemia Interactive; a version of the product is also available for Defence personnel to use on their home computers along with commercial variants. Defence says it does not consider the simulator as a gaming system.

Submission + - Aussie network engineers form members-only ISP (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Thursday July 19, 2012 @11:24PM

schliz writes: A group of Australian network engineers is planning to launch a not-for-profit internet service provider that will provide access to the nation's high-speed NBN fibre network for like-minded people.

The cooperative, dubbed "No ISP", has no staff or add-on services to keep costs down. Members will be able to 'trade' excess download quota for a market-based price, depending on supply and demand.

Submission + - Aussie telco lays new fibre for microsecond trading boost (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Thursday June 14, 2012 @06:18AM

schliz writes: Australian data centre and telecommunications provider Vocus has installed two new underwater fibre links across the Sydney Harbour in a bid for the lowest connection latency between the city's financial district and the Australian Securities Exchange's recently opened data centre, north of the CBD. The project involved 1.6 kilometres of custom, 312-core single-mode optical fibre cable, and was expected to deliver a route that is 400 metres shorter than existing links. RTFA for pretty installation photos.

Submission + - Samsung sues Aussie patent office in Apple suit (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by schliz on Thursday June 07, 2012 @08:22PM

schliz writes: Samsung has sued the Australian patent commissioner — and by extension the Australian Government — in an attempt to force a review of patents key to its global battle with smartphone rival Apple. The Korean manufacturer claims that the commissioner should not have been able to grant four patents used by Apple in its case against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Government solicitor will face Samsung in court on June 25.

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