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• Hobart becomes Tassie’s second “gigabit city”

  Tasmania’s Launtel has made Hobart the second city in the island state to reach gigabit status.

• Telstra partners with HPE for Tassie school's IT overhaul

  Telstra and HPE deploy hyper-converged IT rollout for Tasmania's Scotch Oakburn College, in a major tech overhaul of 1,200-student school.

• Launceston’s NBN 10 times faster than everyone else’s

  Residents of Launceston in Tasmania are enjoying broadband services that are 10 times faster than the maximum speeds provided in other locations across Australia.

• Digitally driven Tassie Govt tables $67.5M IT upgrade plans

  Upgrade plan designed to boost ageing technology currently relied on by emergency services.

• ​Tasmanian government selects local partners for cloud transition

  The Tasmanian Government has selected four local partners as part of its whole-of-government transition to the cloud.
  

• Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Services grapples with 500 per cent database growth

  Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Services will upgrade its asset management system to maximise operational efficiencies and improve lifecycle planning of the department’s rapidly expanding asset portfolio.

• NBN Co to test Aurora fibre plan in Tasmania

  NBN Co will soon trial a proposal by Aurora in Tasmania to string fibre along power lines to reach homes, according to NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski.

• NBN cables in the air cheaper in Tassie

  The NBN can be built at a lower cost using aerial infrastructure in Tasmania than constructing new cables underground, according to Aurora Energy, the state-owned electricity network provider.
  

• Tasmanian premier 'scaremongering' over NBN: Turnbull

  A war of words has erupted between communications minister Malcolm Turnbull and Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings over the state of the NBN in Tasmania.
  

• Anittel guides Tasmania into the cloud

  The Tasmanian government has awarded Anittel a two-year contract to provide an infrastructure-as-service (IaaS) offering, which enables agencies to purchase varying quantities of storage and compute infrastructure from the telco service provider.

• Tas govt establishes $28 million ICT Project Fund

  The Tasmanian government has earmarked $28 million for the establishment of an ICT Project Fund. Funding for 2013-14, revealed in today's state budget, will total $4 million, with funding increasing annually up to $10 million in 2016-17.

• Anittel reports $5.9 million half year loss

  Anittel Group (ASX:AYG) has reported a net loss of $5.9 million for its half year ending December 31, 2012 following a 31.5 per cent dive in hardware and software product sales over the period.
  

• Why MONA went mobile: The technology behind Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art

  There are many things that make visiting Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art an unusual experience. The setting, in the Moorilla winery, the striking architecture of MONA itself, and the intense sensory overload that takes place within its walls, with the shocking (and wonderful) juxtaposition of antiquities and contemporary art.

• The NBN to make Tasmania a more enticing place to live

  A former NBN Tasmania board member believes the National Broadband Network (NBN) will make Tasmania less isolated from the rest of Australia and may even entice mainland residents to relocate to the state.

• Tasmania seeks hosted private cloud for server, storage

  The Tasmanian government revealed plans to gradually move to an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) model as part of its ICT strategy.