AUSWEB BLOG

Tech News websites are all in a flutter over Apple announcing an emergency press conference on Friday morning. Speculation is running wild there may be a reluctant product recall of the iPhone4 based on the widespread antenna design-flaw issues reported by a large portion of the already several million strong user base.

Of course we won’t officially know until Friday, however, with Apple’s track record of denying design flaws in it’s products, merely calling a press conference is both bold & unprecedented .

You can view more on SMH.com.au and comments from design, PR & crisis management experts over at Cult of Mac

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If you’re looking into the future of reliable, failsafe, high performance virtual dedicated servers look no further than the AUSWEB vCloud for Mission Critical performance.

The AUSWEB vCloud utilizes the true dedicated virtualisation environment of VMware ESX & vSphere 4 running on clustered Dell PowerEdge servers connected to a high-performance Fibre Channel Storage Area Network, where all Virtual Machines and their data reside, providing complete fault-tolerance & fail-safe redundancy.

While most virtual hosting providers provide iSCSI Storage for professional level Virtual Machines, AUSWEB is the first VMware virtual machine hosting company to provide ultra-fast and ultra-reliable RAID 6 Fiber Channel SAN storage for true enterprise grade performance.

The AUSWEB vCloud offers VMware HA (High Availability) which means if any server fails, all virtual machines running on a failed server automatically restart on another server within the cluster – with no interruption or changes required to your applications or software! Providing both the performance and stability of dedicated resources with our high-performance storage area network delivering true high availability.

AUSWEB vCloud Enterprise Hosting services are designed specifically for mission critical web hosting environments allowing for rapid provisioning and scalability of resources. AUSWEB vCloud hosting services can be scaled up or down on demand, allowing you to provision and run infrastructure and applications on demand and only pay for what you need.

A large number of existing AUSWEB customers have already road tested our VMware Premium VM Hosting range over the last 9 Months with great results. AUSWEB vCloud Enterprise Hosting will be opened for signups in the coming weeks – if you wish to register your interest or to be added to our vCloud waiting list please send an inquiry to cloud@ausweb.com.au

AUSWEB vCloud Enterprise delivers:
High performance SAN storage for all data
High Availability for fault tolerance & failsafe redundancy
High performance AUSWEB network connectivity
Rapid provisioning & dynamic upgrades of resources on demand

You can also view some related Virtualisation articles on our website here: VMware Comparison & VMware Benefits

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We’ve been busy for quite sometime in the AUSWEB labs, testing and finalizing our new VMware Cloud Hosting solution. For Christmas we received one of the final pieces of the puzzle, that being our new EqualLogic SAN which will provide both high-availability and fail safe redundancy for our upcoming Cloud Hosting solutions.

AUSWEB’s new Cloud Hosting solutions utilise VMware ESX and vSphere 4 running on our high-powered DELL PowerEdge Server cluster, to deliver cost-effective hosting options with dynamic scalability, offering you high availability and full redundancy with fail safe performance.

Cloud Hosting allows you to add processors and memory on the fly and scalable storage space from AUSWEB’s EqualLogic Enterprise-Class SAN to any AUSWEB Cloud VMware Virtual Machine as you require, meaning you only pay for what you need as you need!

With AUSWEB Cloud Hosting you can run any Guest Operating System that runs under VMware ESX, including all Windows versions, all Linux distributions and many more.

All VMware Virtual Machines are connected to our high speed storage network to deliver blazing fast speed and server performance with a 99.99% uptime guarantee.

Stay tuned to this space for more Cloud Hosting announcements in the coming weeks.

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From Arstechnica:

Microsoft has issued a notification it is releasing tomorrow for Internet Explorer at approximately 10 am PST. The patch will fix vulnerabilities in IE6, IE7, and IE8 on supported editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2—vulnerabilities notably exploited in the recent series of Chinese-based attacks against Google and 30 other tech companies.

The patch is now available via Windows Update and on the Microsoft Download Center. Here are all the links you need:

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For the majority of people who are concerned with proper browser functionality and of course security, Internet Explorer would certainly not be a preferred browser choice. For many web designers Internet Explorer remains a headache that must be catered for because of the large number of users out there who refuse to switch or are unable to upgrade from long outdated versions such as IE6, which have many problems with modern HTML/CSS code.
Read more…

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A new post has appeared on the official Google Blog, detailing security attacks on their infrastructure originating from China:

Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident–albeit a significant one–was something quite different.

First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses–including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors–have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities.

The post goes on to mention that Google is now reviewing their business operations in China, which already operate in a censored capacity in conjunction with Chinese laws, and this may result in the shutdown of Google.cn and a complete withdrawal of Google’s Chinese offices. You can read the full post below:

Official Google Blog: “A New Approach to China”

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It’s that time of year again, for those yet to take advantage of our December Special with 25% OFF for VPS plans as well as Dedicated Server & Discount Dedicated Server plans, there is one week left to go!

Visit www.ausweb.com.au for more details and promotional codes.

We are closing telephone sales and support from Christmas until January 4th. However, online support continues as normal 24/7 throughout the holiday period. For full details please check our Announcements page from your Client Area Member’s Portal.

Wishing customers new and old a very Merry Christmas and safe New Year, from the team at AUSWEB! Thank you all for another great year, with some big announcements we’ve been promising to come in early 2010!

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New statistics from comScore Networks research shows Microsoft’s Bing has risen to 10.3% of the U.S. search market in November, it’s highest result so far. However, it appears the market share is being taken from Microsoft’s partner-in-waiting, Yahoo and not search leader Google’s whos market share rose over November.

Under an agreement struck earlier this year, Microsoft will assume responsibility for the underlying technology for both the Yahoo and Bing search engines. Microsoft has said the arrangement will give it more critical mass to compete effectively against Google. ComScore’s statistics below spread out from June 2007 show it’s going to be quite an uphill battle.

You can view further detailed statistics over at Silicon Alley Insider.

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Christmas has come early this year here at AUSWEB HQ, with a fresh delivery of turbo charged DELL R200 Intel Quad Core Servers. To mark the occasion and the holiday season we’re offering big cost savings into the New Year with 25% OFF for all new signups on our VPS and Dedicated Server plans during the month of Christmas! The longer you signup the more you save, on top of our existing generous signup discounts on selected plans, with 1 Month Free on Yearly signup & 3 Months Free on 2 Year signups!

Our already reduced range of powerful Discount Servers with AMD Opteron and Intel Dual Core CPU’s are also slashed a further 25% during Christmas. If you have been considering the jump to Dedicated Server hosting our discount servers offer extremely high performance at great value. With a further 25% Off, there has never been a better time to make the jump to a Dedicated Server with huge savings for your hosting in 2010 and beyond. Our Discount Servers are in strictly limited supply though, so get in fast!

For full details and information about all of our VPS and Dedicated Server plans and for our details on our XMAS 25% Off Promotional Code, visit the AUSWEB website – www.ausweb.com.au!

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One of the biggest news stories floating around today have been stirred by the latest comments from Rupert Murdoch. In a recent interview Murdoch touched on possible moves his News Corporation empire may take towards their proposed online profit model, such as pursuing other news outlets like the BBC for any breaches of copyright and blocking the indexing of News Corp websites by search engines ie. Google. Read more…

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