AGIMO prepared to scrap multi-use list if there are no takers.
The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) will quickly establish a multi-use list (MUL) of Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) providers with no assurances that any agency will use it, an industry briefing in Canberra heard yesterday...

Only two data centres operational so far on AGIMO’s data centre panel.
The AGIMO data centre panel has finally yielded fruit with the its first customer, the Department of Finance & Deregulation, signing a 10-year lease with Canberra Data Centres for some $45...

Google Drive revealed, but not available yet.
Google has officially unveiled its highly anticipated answer to Dropbox.
Like Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Dropbox, the service requires users to install a small application that is able to connect phones, tablets and PCs to Google's cloud storage...

Cloud storage war rages as world waits for Google Drive.
Dropbox, Google and Microsoft are ramping up their cloud file storage and sharing products with new simplified functions, broader integration and in Microsoft's case, more free storage...

FBI allegedly can't serve foreign company criminal papers.
United States district court Liam O’Grady has warned that Megaupload may never proceed to trial due to the failure of the FBI to serve the accused file locker with criminal papers.

The omission is a serious threat to the procedures US law enforcement and the Justice  Department are eager to proceed with...

Government rejects $8 million project.
The Victorian Department of Human Services had an $8 million-plus electronic record management system proposal knocked back, despite evidence that inefficient practices were hampering freedom of information requests...

Joint tender seeks host for 36 racks of gear.
The University of Western Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney have kicked off a joint project to outsource their primary data centres following separate reviews of their IT strategies.

Tender documents issued last week indicated that the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) sought to improve its IT infrastructure and capacity planning by moving its production environment to a “modern data centre facility”...

Carpathia still stuck three months after Mega takedown.
Digital locker MegaUpload’s main US host Carpathia on Monday renewed calls for financial relief for preserving 25 Petabytes of data that several parties are fighting for, but which the US Government appears willing to see destroyed...

Wupload disables sharing.
Wupload has disabled file sharing functions after being named by a film executive as a future target in Hollywood's war against sites alleged to be MegaUpload type operations.

“Announcement: All sharing has been disabled...

Develops guidelines for deals worth up to $80,000.
Federal agencies may be able to use a multi-use list (MUL) of suppliers instead of more stringent panel arrangements when sourcing cloud services worth up to $80,000, under plans unveiled by AGIMO this week...

Develops guidelines for deals worth up to $80,000.
Federal agencies may be able to use a multi-use list (MUL) of suppliers instead of more stringent panel arrangements when sourcing cloud services worth up to $80,000, under plans unveiled by AGIMO this week...

Accelerated roadmap fuels Amazonian speculation.
Global data centre giant Equinix has announced it will bring expansion plans for its Sydney facility forward by six months to meet strong demand for data centre space.
The second phase of SYD3, which was scheduled to go live for customers by March 2013, will now be available by September 2012, according to the data centre company’s Australian managing director Tony Simonsen...

International research effort moves to the public cloud.
The US National Institutes of Health has made some 200 terabytes of genomic data publicly available on Amazon’s S3 cloud in a bid to boost participation in the international 1000 Genomes Project...

Bring charges in line with IT advances.
Australian Information Commissioner John McMillan has recommended changes to the way agencies charge for electronically-driven administrative processes for Freedom of Information requests.

In a report released yesterday [pdf], McMillan called for search, retrieval, decision-making and electronic processing fees to be standardised, eliminating the variable costs charged under the current regime...

Victorian region selected as test site.
NICTA has identified an oil-rich region in southwestern Victoria to validate machine-learning algorithms created under a $5 million big data project.
The project, revealed by iTnews last November, aims to help geothermal exploration firms identify the characteristics of subsurface fields without having to drill them...

Rio Tinto's 3D mine the public face for resources' Big Data embrace.
Rio Tinto has emerged as the pioneer of a new movement aiming to harness burgeoning data volumes generated in real-time by equipment at remote mine sites across Australia...

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Eyes $200m in annual savings.
The National Archives of Australia has outlined a plan to reduce the dependency of government agencies on paper records, saving up to $200 million a year in physical storage costs.

The Director General of the National Archives, David Fricker, said he hoped to drive a coordinated and strategic approach to digital information management across the Federal Government...

Modular facility built for capital and power efficiency.

Welcome to Metronode’s second Melbourne data centre, currently under construction...

Continuous improvement is 'consistently boring'.
IBM has called for calm over cloud computing “hype and marketing” in the lead up to the launch of its new service management product, SmartCloud Control Desk.

The company’s general manager of Tivoli Software, Danny Sabbah, told its Pulse infrastructure conference this week that mobile and cloud technologies were the “new technology trend”...