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According to Gartner research, data growth is one of the three biggest daily challenges facing enterprises. On average, data capacity in enterprises is growing at between 40% to 60% per annum due to a number of factors including an explosion of unstructured data, such as email and documents, that needs to be stored for continually evolving regulatory requirements. Although the cost of storage is...
24th September 2013
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The Charles Todd Oration is being held in Sydney on 23 October 2013. For those who can't get to Sydney, this Melbourne event provides an opportunity to network with colleagues over a light lunch and view a live relay of the Sydney event. Twenty years ago, Michael Malone founded one of Australia's earliest ISPs, iiNet, in the garage of his parents' home in Perth. Michael has led iiNet to become...
23rd October 2013
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In March 2013 the University of Adelaide opened its new science building "The Braggs", in the basement of which is housed the John R. Prescott Laboratory for Environmental Luminescence. The laboratory studies luminescence phenomena for application to sensing, including trace detection of substances such as explosives, environmental monitoring using luminescence induced by ambient radiation, and...
15th October 2013
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The Charles Todd Oration is being held in Sydney on 23 October 2013. For those who can't get to Sydney, this Adelaide event provides an opportunity to network with colleagues over a light lunch and view a live relay of the Sydney event. Twenty years ago, Michael Malone founded one of Australia's earliest ISPs, iiNet, in the garage of his parents' home in Perth. Michael has led iiNet to become...
23rd October 2013
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Shara Evans CEO of Market Clarity will presenting "Case Study: How US State and Local Government Organisations are Measuring Mobile Network Performance - Lessons for Australia". In her talk, Shara will discuss: The US government mobile broadband mapping initiative Comparing Mobile Broadband Performance Mapping Initiatives: Utah, California, Delaware and Colorado Combing the thoroughness of drive...
5th December 2013
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Introduction The term cloud has come to have several meanings. At first, around 2007 in Australia, cloud computing referred to on-demand access to massive computing facilities owned by a cloud service provider and shared by all-comers. A few years later, the phrase ?the cloud? came into use to refer to the location of information stored with a cloud service provider and accessed via a web browser...
November 2013
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Introduction With the rapid development of processing and storage technologies and the success of the Internet, computing resources have become cheaper, more powerful, and more ubiquitously available than ever before. This technological trend has enabled the realisation of a new computing paradigm, cloud computing, in which resources (e.g. compute, storage, network, etc.) are provided as general...
November 2013
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Introduction Cloud Sweden was founded nearly two years ago by a group of enthusiastic members of the Swedish Data Society (Sw. Dataf?reningen), and is now a non-profit working branch and network within the Society. Moreover, Cloud Sweden has become the independent focal point for Swedish expertise on Cloud services. Cloud Sweden promotes safe and appropriate usage of Cloud services, and...
November 2013
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This set of references includes documents assisting understanding of the late-2013 status of cloud and data sovereignty (or ?digital protectionism?) policy discussions in Australia. Material from the US, EU and other countries is necessarily less complete than that from Australia. Some online material may require registration or subscription. Links were active in October 2013. 1. Articles, books...
November 2013