Stories by Adam Bender

Fujitsu is upgrading its Cloud services in Western Australia, adding a local Cloud platform node to the company’s Malaga data centre. The upgrade will be completed this November, it said.

Politicians from the Labor and Coalition parties have each claimed that a NBN report commissioned by Victoria's Coalition proves their points on the NBN.

NBN deployment is too sluggish for Victoria’s Coalition Government, according to Technology Minister, Gordon Rich-Phillips.

Ian Tebbett, CIO of Monash University, has taken a business approach to managing IT for research and education.

The Victorian Coalition government sought industry feedback on a plan to overhaul ICT procurement by government departments and agencies. The state government plans to move to an eServices register by July 2013.

Telstra’s customer service and LTE strategies helped the top telco add 1.6 million mobile customers in fiscal-year 2012, analysts said after Telstra reported earnings results.

Telstra increased its telco dominance in Australia, adding 1.6 million mobile customers in fiscal-year 2012 while increasing revenue and net profits, the telco said.

More support by the government for real-world experience in ICT education would produce better and more hirable graduates, said Australian Computer Society Foundation (ACSF) executive director, John Ridge.

Increasing Internet congestion, the proliferation mobile devices and heightened security risks are today’s biggest challenges to delivering Web content, according to Akamai Technologies co-founder Tom Leighton.

The Parliamentary committee investigating IT pricing will increase pressure on major IT vendors as public hearings continue, said MP Ed Husic.

Vodafone said Telstra has failed to pass on to customers savings received from cost reductions for calls from fixed lines to mobile phones.

Medical technology company Stryker has seen high performance and minimal downtime since selecting a virtualised product from Citrix to speed distribution of updates for its JD Edwards (JDE) ERP platform, according to Stryker associate director of Global IT infrastructure, Adam Levin.

Infoplex purchased unified storage from EMC to better service its rapidly expanding customer base, according to the company’s general manager, Matthew Madden. The company chose EMC’s VNX unified storage platform at the end of 2011 and completed build out in late June.

Three mobile companies riding on the Optus network said they’re planning 4G moves following Optus's announcement that it [[artnid: 432213|launched 4G business services]] in Sydney and Perth.

The Australian Government Information Management Office said it plans by October to launch a Data Centre as a Service Multi Use List (DCaaS MUL) to deliver Cloud services to government agencies. AGIMO released an approach to market 31 July.