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Australia to become APAC Cloud hub? The dream of Australia becoming an Asia-Pacific Cloud computing hub could become a reality, nevertheless hinges on having a so then-designed regulatory and policy environment and overcoming cost challenges, a new report argues.

NSW DET, AARNet, click through to collaborative learning in schools Australia's Academic and Technology Network has enabled the NSW Department of Education and Training to collaborate learning for students across the state.

The University of Sydney moves to virtual desktop as part of learning network rollout The popularity of consumer devices combined with the launch of four learning hubs has caused the University of Sydney to deploy desktop virtualization software across its campuses.

Telcos make OAIC's 2010-11 top 10 privacy complaints list -- updated Telecommunications, finance and health companies, along with government agencies, have featured prominently in the complaints received by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner while the past year.

Many organisations, driven by the opportunities for significant cost-savings, are considering cloud computing and cloud storage solutions, which take advantage of Web-based technologies to allow scalable, virtualized IT resources to be provided as a service over the network. Not a new innovation in itself, cloud computing is a new business model wrapped around existing technologies, just as server virtualization, to make the use of information research resources more efficient.