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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/it-business/nations-health-in-good-hands/story-e6frganx-1226078137767 BEFORE the Nursing Board of Victoria (NBV) became the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) in July last year, its Melbourne data centre was nationally recognised for its sophistication. AHPRA is now the organisation responsible for the registration and accreditation of 500,000 health professionals in Australia. It replaced all the [...] [...]
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-hitachi-060911.html Hitachi to Deliver Cloud Solutions Based on VMware vSphere and the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform to Financial Institutions in Asia TOKYO and PALO ALTO, Calif. — June 9, 2011 — Hitachi Ltd. and VMware today announced a strategic partnership enabling Hitachi to deliver new cloud services to financial institutions in [...] [...]
Got a phone call from a colleague who’s started at a medium sized business outside London, their Windows 2003 cluster was rather unresponsive, the resources were in a hung state trying to come online to their BCP node and everything was stuck ‘online pending’, “It’s stuffed, any ideas” It was at this point I sent him [...] [...]
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-hp-virtualsystem-060811.html and http://www.hp.com/go/discover LAS VEGAS, Nev., June 8, 2011 — Today at HP DISCOVER 2011, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, announced a new collaboration with HP on turnkey solutions to simplify and accelerate virtualization for customers on [...] [...]
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Cisco-Makes-Gains-in-x86-Blade-Server-Space-IDC-Says-626876/ Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell were among the familiar names at the top of IDC’s list of the top server vendors for the first quarter. Even Oracle, a year after buying Sun Microsystems, has become a known entity in the server space. However, new to the rankings is Cisco Systems, the networking giant that two years ago [...] [...]
http://www.findmyfirmware.com/firmware/pcsupport.xls I was having a conversation with one of my friends who works outside London for a multi-national running the desktop and help desk teams. He was asking my about FindMyFirmware and asked if there were any plans to add desktops to the application. His problem, a call might be logged for a pc, he [...] [...]
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/05/27/246803/Cost-concerns-and-staff-loyalty-deter-public-sector-CIOs-from-sharing.htm Shared back-office services are being established across the public sector by pioneering organisations as well as service providers, but for public sector bodies yet to make the move there will be difficult decisions and compromises to make. Ovum predicts 50% of European public sector bodies will use shared services in two years, but [...] [...]
Cisco.com Cisco’s new Allen, Texas, data center is a showcase for the company’s technologies, including Unified Fabric and switches. The data center also has a number of “green” features, such as photovoltaic solar panels on the roof that generate 100 kilowatts of power and an uninterruptable powers supply [...] [...]
http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2011-05-25-ddvs-thin-clients-virtual-labs.aspx Customized Virtual Lab 2.0 available for colleges and universities New Dell OptiPlex FX170 and FX130 thin clients complement Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions, a solution portfolio designed to help organizations quickly deploy desktop virtualization Simplified management and security creates added benefits and ease of implementation for IT teams Dell today announced additions to its desktop virtualization [...] [...]
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&x=9&y=14&p1=3198 I got asked in a meeting the other day about how long Microsoft Windows Server 2003 remains in support, it’s one of those questions that depends on the release and service pack installed. It’s all available on the Microsoft site, and the actual support you receive may also depend if you are a customer that [...] [...]
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