9th October 2011 Archive

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• Emerson to build NBN facilities

  Ten data centres, 12 months, $AU100 million

  Emerson Network Power has become the latest company to sign on for major National Broadband Network contracts, with a $AU100 million contract to build network facilities centres. The ten facilities Australia-wide will house network management, core network equipment, and NBN staff, with two facilities in each of Sydney, …

  Business 9 Oct 21:25

• Public/private Aus social networking site launches

  Family HQ gets Microsoft approval

  Microsoft is using a fledgling Gold Coast based social media site targeting families as the poster-child for its Azure software platform. Queensland couple, Jase and Brooke Farmer, officially launch their start-up, Family HQ this week after a four week beta trail of the site which has attracted 4,616 members from 25 countries …

  Music and Media 9 Oct 22:30

• HPC 2.0: The monster mash-up

  Blog It's storage size and speed that counts...

  When Big Data gets big, data centers should get nervous Part 3 In the first two parts of this trilogy, we set the stage with a discussion of how HPC and the Big Data trend, combined with the increasing use of business analytics, are presenting existing data centers with some pretty big challenges. The first article is here, …

  Data Warehousing 9 Oct 23:00

• Oz employment site suffers script kiddie attack

  The usual outcome: user details on Pastebin

  A group with the Twitter handle @BlackHatGhosts says it is behind breaking into the systems of Australian educational sector employment site Unijobs, posting the usernames and passwords of around 600 users on Pastebin. First reported at The Conversation, the break-in follows the now-boring pattern of picking a small, softish …

  Security 9 Oct 23:30