Featured News

Newsroom

Adam Chicktong 2 WAmazon Web Services (AWS) has selected Sydney-based Managed Service Provider and Advanced AWS Consulting Partner, UltraServe as one of a handful of partners globally for its just-launched Marketing & Commerce Competency.

This new competency, shortlists AWS partner solutions that support all phases of the marketing and commerce cycle. More details are on the Marketing & Commerce Partner Solutions page at http://aws.amazon.com/digital-marketing/partner-solutions/.

UltraServe is a rapidly growing and highly innovative business offering companies anywhere in the world the opportunity to quickly capitalise on the rapidly increasing demand for online services. UltraServe has developed SmartStack, a world-first Platform-as-a-Service, providing customers almost instant global reach and helping them take their products and services to market faster, at a lower cost, with greater resiliency and redundancy.

UltraServe Vice President of Sales Adam Chicktong said achieving the AWS Marketing and Commerce competency was clear recognition of UltraServe’s ability to get customers to market faster. “Our entire business model is focussed on aligning our SmartStack solution to the commerce-focused outcomes of our customers,” he said.

iiNet General Manager Business and Government Daryl Knight iiNet today announces that it will deliver the benefits of cloud computing, including on-demand deployment and consumption-based pricing, to the SA Government.

The revolutionary cloud model will allow public sector agencies to deploy required technology infrastructure quickly, securely and cost-effectively in minutes instead of months.

iiNet, through its South Australian brand Internode, has concluded the agreement to provide the SA gCloud service to the South Australian Government’s departments of Premier and Cabinet (DPC), Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI) and Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI). iiNet expects to conclude agreements with other agencies over time.

MIMP CEO Allan Aitchison and NVI Director Matt SalierSA-based communications trailblazer MIMP Connecting Solutions is teaming up with Flinders University to provide students with access to cutting edge telecommunications equipment.

The quarter-million-dollar MIMP Edge Lab, located at the Flinders University precinct at Adelaide’s Tonsley Park, will provide an interactive showcase of the latest technology from MIMP and its partners including NEC, Aviat and CommScope.

About 100 students from Flinders’ network systems, computer science, software engineering and information technology streams will have access to the new equipment as well as to senior MIMP engineering staff who design innovative wireless networks.

Dr Shari ParkerProminent Australians with albinism, including an MP, a popular singer and a doctor, have welcomed Australia’s first International Albinism Awareness Day on Saturday, June 13.

With a statistical likelihood of one in 17,000, Australia has more than 1300 persons with albinism. The genetic condition, which arises from a lack of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes, is linked to pale skin, white hair and poor eyesight, often in the range of legal blindness.

In November last year, the United Nations’ General Assembly adopted a resolution setting June 13 as International Albinism Awareness Day, an historic resolution that fixes albinism advocacy globally.