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• Antique equipment dents IPv6 reliability

  Devices on the edge of the network are holding back performance of IPv6, according to networking industry officials on a panel at APNIC 38.

• Customer advocacy critical to business success: Telstra

  Businesses must meet and surpass rising expectations for IT to turn customers into advocates, according to Janine Modaro, Telstra director of integrated service management, network applications and services.

• NBN reliability: Help guide first step for battery backup

  The roll out of the National Broadband Network is set to revolutionise the way Australians communicate, but it has raised questions about the reliability of the network compared with existing copper-based telephone systems, especially among non-technical people.

• Amazon improves reliability for its cloud-based database

  Amazon Web Services has added a new high-availability feature called Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) to its cloud-based Relational Database Service (RDS), the company said on Tuesday.

• PostgreSQL devs lift open source database to enterprise heights

  The release of the first beta of version 9.1 of the open source PostgreSQL database has opened a new era in enterprise-class reliability and data integrity that can compete with the big names, say its developers.

• Want cloud success? Look for cloud failures

  CIOs looking to find a reliable cloud provider should seek one whose service has already fallen over, according to Dan Foody, vice president at Web services management provider Progress Actional.

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