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Australian managed services specialist, Virtual Ark, is using recently raised funding of $1.6 million to broaden the global market reach of its cloud application management platform, which is now available to companies in Australia as well as the US.

eMite releases Version 4 of its Service Intelligence Platform further enabling BI for IT with 2 key advances. Those advances are the Onboard->Offboard->Dashboard architecture and the integration of Service Desk Analytics into Service Intelligence.

Whereas most vendors have approached Next Generation Firewall technologies from the perspective of an existing firewall product, Sourcefire has turned the concept inside out and today launches an IPS-based device.

A cloud computer based learning management system which is winning widespread support in the US could wend its way to Australia over the next 12 months taking on incumbents such as Moodle, Sakai and Blackboard.

Double digit growth continues to push the server market in the Asia Pacific region, making it the fastest growth region in the world, with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan taking the lion's share of the sales.

Leadership Position Underscores Sitecore's Strategy to Intelligently Guide Customer Conversations Across all Interactions and Communications Channels

Organisations which jump into the cloud without performing some form of due diligence on the personnel who will have access to their data are exposing themselves to high levels of risk according to international legal firm Norton Rose.

Chinese telecoms manufacturer ZTE put out a press release this week crowing that, in Q3, it had ousted Apple to become the fourth largest vendor of mobile handsets by units shipped, but Gartner begs to differ, and other analysts suggest this elevation is likely to be temporary.

Business applications for the iPad and other tablet devices are moving beyond the first wave of personal productivity tools towards manageable and secure enterprise applications that support major business initiatives.

Telecommunications will be the big spending area by the Australian education sector next year, with a forecast that $628 million will be invested by organisations, including higher education institutions and primary/secondary schools.

Spending on IT products and services by enterprises in Australia is expected to reach $61.9 billion by next year, with many CEOs in the global market believing IT will make a greater contribution to their industry in the next 10 years than any prior decades.

Lexmark evaluated on "completeness of vision" and "ability to execute"

Over the last three years the use of e-books as an alternative to print books has stalled with a new global survey of 6,500 students finding students still find the two equally important for their studies. According to Gartner research director Marti Harris part of the problem is a persistent lack of standards in terms of the e-book platform.

With Australian utilities moving towards smart meter deployments and smart grid upgrades, spending on information technology by water, electricity and gas utilities is forecast to leap to $2.4 billion next year, with external IT services expected to snare the lions share of that spend.

ICT analyst Gartner - which is holding its annual Symposium on the Gold Coast next month - has today announced the top ten technologies that it believes will be of strategic importance to enterprises next year. The envelope please'¦

A new forecast on data centres spending predicts investments in Australia will soar to reach $1.83 billion by the end of 2011, and that larger structures will take over small and medium sized centres.

Global politics and the global economy are being shaped by IT. Well, that's the view of one of the world's biggest and influential market analyst firms who predict that the world's economic problems won't stop IT investment and, in fact, is now the primary driver of business growth with 350 companies this year alone investing more than $1 billion in IT.

Yellowfin, the leader in easy-to-use Business Intelligence (BI), has been recognized in Gartner's annual Who's Who in Mobile BI report. The 2011 edition lists leading Mobile BI providers, their solutions and capabilities.

Spending on data centre hardware in Australia is expected to reach $1.83 billion this year, up 8.8 percent over last year, with forecasts predicting a significant consolidation and reduction in the number of centres over the next few years.

Juniper Networks has spent the last few months strengthening its management team as it moves to leverage its technology position in key growth markets, including the Asia Pacific region.