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NetApp flash storage has improved application performance and simplified management for Goodstart Early Learning.

Veeam Explorer for Oracle will provide "a number of unique, industry-first features for Oracle," the company claims.

Even though Windows Server 2003 goes out of support tomorrow, Microsoft's ageing server operating system is still in use at 20% of Australian and New Zealand businesses according to a Telsyte survey commissioned by Dell.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has called for Expressions of Interest (EoIs) for a new software-based core banking system.

A new release of the Tableau Online cloud analytics software offers improved performance and new features.

NetApp now supports Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services and Softlayer storage for hybrid clouds.

Updates to HP's MSA Storage product for SMEs add data tiering and advanced virtualisation features.

Oracle has released a new version of its GoldenGate data integration product. GoldenGate 12c supports a wider range of databases and big data systems.

A new reference architecture for SQL Server systems from Western Digital subsidiary HGST and NEC improves performance and density, and reduces power consumption.

Embarcadero Technologies' Appmethod is a cross-platform application development platform designed for lone developers as well as enterprise use.

Microsoft has defied the doomsayers – and Wall Street – by posting record revenues in the last quarter.

Originally created in the mid-noughties, The University of Melbourne's student portal was showing its age, with symptoms including the inability to keep up with demand at peak times, such as during enrolment season. Redevelopment on the back of a new, Oracle-based enterprise platform delivered the required performance and paved the way for a much greater level of integration.

A variety of developer tools, frameworks and libraries exist to simplify the goal of supporting multiple types of device from a single codebase. One of the latest is Embarcadero FireDAC which supports a wide variety of databases and platforms.

It is a truism that what gets measured gets improved. One important function of the CIO is to ensure strategic information is delivered to executive management as a basis for steering the company. Here is a simple C# app to easily publish results of SQL queries as Excel spreadsheets.

Microsoft released seven security bulletins overnight, addressing a total of 20 vulnerabilities. Only one of the bulletins is rated critical, and there are also wide-ranging non-security updates this month - only Microsoft's Mac customers miss out.

Windows Server 2012 is ready for business use, according to an Australian IT manager.

Microsoft has pre-announced nine security bulletins will be released this week, five of them rated critical and addressing vulnerabilities in a wide range of software. And Adobe will be releasing security updates on the same day.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is now available to all comers.

As Actian (formerly Ingres) prepares to start showing off Action Apps to its Australian customers, the company's VectorWise database recently set a new TPC-H benchmark.

New Zealand-based beverage manufacturer Frucor (the company behind brands such as V and Just Juice) successfully moved its SAP environment into the cloud, but learned a few things in the process.