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Articles I found interesting today:

• Leave No Trace: How To Completely Erase Your Hard Drives

Articles I found interesting today:

• Our submission on mandatory ISP level filtering

- From Google Australia

• Telstra Increases Limits On Prepaid 3G Broadband

- Much more sensible mobile broadband deals from Telstra, I think perhaps they now realise there are viable telco alternatives

Articles I found interesting today:

• Understanding the 2 TB Limit in Windows Storage
• Windows Azure announced for Australia

- Good summary from Jason Cartwright on Azure announcement for Australia. The big key is the servers are located in Australia, which has long been a constraint for many of the cloud offerings.

• Veeam Software Annual Revenue Grows 127 Percent and Customer Base 300 Percent in 2009
• Double-Take Puts Disaster Recovery in Amazon's Cloud

- Conceptually a good leap ahead of many, and a practical way forward for many SMEs

Articles I found interesting today:

• VMware vs. Red Hat: The Next Virtual Machine Management Battleground
• What’s coming in WordPress 3.0.. ads multi-blog support

- I was just lamenting today that no one builds their own web based CMS’s anymore. But what I really meant was I’m a little in love with wordpress, and convinced they’re doing it right. WordPress 3.0 is on the horizon.

Articles I found interesting today:

• Dell Buys KACE – Virtualization Systems Management Appliance

- Interesting move from Dell – I assume this might be more to provide a useful single service bundled with infrastructure. Though potentially goes well with their Perot systems acquisition…

Articles I found interesting today:

• The State Of The Internet

- Infographic on current internet use

Articles I found interesting today:

• Virtual I/O Can Beat Load Balancers for Server Failover

- While I tend to be a little cynical about the constant “virtualisation can do that” message, this is a genuinely smart use I’d not really considered. I’ve loved the flexibility of HW load balancers this is a pretty grand idea in a wholly virtual environment.

Articles I found interesting today:

• VMware, Cisco, NetApp form multi-tenancy alliance
• Get Free Copy of Double-Take Move February 4th

- Free licence from Double-take available, support for X2X migrations

• Gartner Reveals Five Social Software Predictions for 2010 and Beyond
• NASA Nebula – Obama's own private cloud?

- Emerging as the leader on the government cloud idea.

• Amazon EC2 watcher kick-starts cloud of clouds

- Interesting concept as the first constraints of the cloud are seen, spreading the load across similar providers

• Starting positions for next decade's external storage race
• Windows 2000 Server Approaching End of Life

- Finally finally finally. Windows 2000 officially reaching end-of-life on July 13 2010. Good OS, but its time and makes a more compelling case for W2K8 upgrade.

W2K dies in July.

• Big news: Microsoft and HP team up to move IT forward
• Aussie Oracle/Sun partners talk merger

- Article from great new Australian industry site – delimiter.com.au

Articles I found interesting today:

• Making sense of Exchange Logs using ExLogAnalyzer

- Useful exchange reference article

Articles I found interesting today:

• VMware Implementation with IBM Midrange System Storage
• IBM Midrange System Storage Implementation and Best Practices Guide
• PowerVM and SAN Copy Services

- SAN storage in a virtualised environment, including multiple storage vendors

• IBM Storage Infrastructure for Business Continuity