March 06, 2012 – The newest member of the technical team at CMSIT now selected to participate in an Inspired Adventure in Northern India! Trekking for the rights of women and girls. To read more or to lend your support click here
February 29, 2012 – CMS IT donates $12,000 (540,000 Philippine Pesos) to Hospicio De San Jose
10 October 2011 - Windgap Foundation signs up with CrossPoint IP PABX and Thinpoint Cloud Solution
06 October 2011 - "Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple has passed away. Steve was a great man with unsurpassable achievements and incredible brilliance. His work has forever changed the way we use and see technology. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me. I will miss all his keynote speeches and he will continue to inspire my work to try and do the best and make the most of everything today" - Angelo Millena
01 September 2011
Present Australia (PTA Tours & Events) signs with a 3-Year Managed Services contract with CMS IT!
02 August 2011
Tourism Australia proceeds with WatchGuard solution for Singapore office.
21 July 2011
CrossPoint signs Jam Communications for managed services. - Paul Dunstan 21.07.2011
21 July 2011
Android-based tablets to arrive next month, with a Windows release later in the year.
Lenovo has finally entered the tablet market by unveiling a pair of devices running Android 3.1, with a Windows tablet to follow.
Lenovo unveiled tablets at CES in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year - and released the LePad in China - but the ThinkPad and IdeaPad are the first to be given release dates in Australia.
First up is the ThinkPad Tablet, a business-focused device running Android, which is generally regarded as a consumer OS. The tablet will be released in September along with a carry case featuring a built-in keyboard and integrated optical trackpoint. It will also come with an optional, pressure-sensitive capacitive pen to make note-taking easier, Lenovo said.
The 10.1in ThinkPad Tablet runs a 1GHz, dual-core Nvidia Tegra, and features a 1,280 x 800 IPS display made of Gorilla Glass for extra durability. It's 13.3mm thick and weighs 750g, with Lenovo promising an eight-hour battery life.
The ThinkPad comes preloaded with software including security tools for encryption, VPN, and remote device wiping, as well as popular games such as Angry Birds. It features wi-fi and Bluetooth, and supports a SIM card for 3G, as well as USB, micro-USB and Mini HDMI ports.
19 July 2011 1:00pm
Masada College to proceed with WatchGuard XTM505 upgrade project
14 July 2011 12:36pm
--- Global Switch data centre suffers power outage ---
A power issue on level two of Global Switch’s Sydney data centre sent some customers offline for approximately half an hour this morning.
One of facility's two power distribution feeds ceased working for a "limited number of clients" at about 10.20am. Sources identified this as Phase 'B'.
Equipment that used two sources of power continued to function throughout the outage; however, smaller servers and network equipment that accessed a single power feed went offline.
PacNet, HarbourMSP, Exigent, and Servers Australia were among those affected.
Servers Australia's managing director Jared Hirst said his customers were affected for only “three to four minutes” before staff re-routed traffic to back-up equipment at Equinix.
A PacNet customer service representative said the call centre was “being bombarded with calls” due to a “network issue” that lasted about one hour, until noon.
Global Switch Commercial Manager Damon Reid told iTnews it was “working through an incident” that was attributed to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) unit.
“At the moment, our focus is to speak to clients and rectify the issue,” he said.
14 July 2011
Virtual Cloud Day - new version of VMware vSphere is here!
"vSphere 5.0 - the Best Platform for Cloud Infrastructure"
What's New!
VMware vSphere 5.0 delivers intelligent policy management so you can 'set it and forget it.' Create and run 'super virtual machines' even for the resource intensive workload. vSphere also delivers true application portability and flexible hybrid cloud management through a single pane.
VMware vShield™ 5.0 enables more security and control with added protection to your infrastructure, applications, data and users to deliver a trusted cloud infrastructure.
VMware vCloud® Director 1.5 empowers users to get immediate access to virtual infrastructure and enables IT to scale and respond more quickly to increasing demands.
VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager 5.0 ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications.
vSphere Storage Appliance simplifies IT while using the high availability and automation features of vSphere.
13 July 2011
Masada College initiates discussions with CMS Information Technology for WatchGuard XTM5 series upgrade
13 July 2011
Microsoft and Polycom launch telepresence solution
Polycom and Microsoft affirmed they are serious about going after the business communications market with the launch of the Polycom CX7000 Unified Communications System, which the companies said is the first room video telepresence solution purpose built to run on the software giant’s Lync platform for UC.
12 July 2011
Xen Server 6.0 beta released!
The newly released beta of Citrix XenServer 6.0 features cross-platform management tools compatible with VMware vSphere and Microsoft System Center, as well as the integration of the Open vSwitch, first introduced with XenServer 5.6, as the default network stack for the product.
Based on the Xen 4.1 hypervisor, XenServer 6.0 includes a new Self Service Manager virtual appliance which can be used to create virtual machine (VM) service catalogs based on both XenServer and vSphere. XenCenter 6.0 allows for the creation of multi-VM virtual appliances, or vApps, which can be imported/exported using the Open Virtualization Format standard. VMware Virtual Machine Disk Format and Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk virtual disks can also be imported. Starting with this release, users can use Microsoft’s forthcoming System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 to manage and monitor XenServer hosts and VMs.
Open vSwitch is now the basis for distributed virtual networking within XenServer, as well as network interface card-bonding support and jumbo frames support. XenServer 6.0 also now brings previously separate StorageLink and Site Recovery features into the fold. With the integration of StorageLink, some array support is retired, according to a post on the Citrix website: “Focus for StorageLink support is being placed on arrays with standards-based SMI-S interfaces (e.g. EMC Clariion) and those which are widely used with XenServer (NetApp and Dell EqualLogic).”
Citrix also recently retired its Essentials line -- which included StorageLink -- for Hyper-V, citing overlap with SCVMM 2012.
11 July 2011
Mondash University initiates discussions with CrossPoint for desktop and independent client computing to deploy for 600 students.
11 July 2011
WatchGuard XTM2050 - The Next-Generation Firewall
Large enterprises need to know that their valuable information is safe and secure. The Next-Generation Firewall XTM 2050 succeeds in doing this, while also factoring in affordability and ease of use. This is a top of the line, multi-gigabit Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) that secures corporate Internet traffic against hackers, malware, network attacks, intrusion attempts, data theft, and other cybercrime while securely connecting offices, remote and virtual employees, and providing real-time and historical visibility into security and user events. The hardware in the NGFW XTM 2050 is superior to its competitors with dual, hot swap power supplies, hot swap fans, and swappable NICS and hard drives
6 July 2011, Sydney
Frontier Services authorises for CMS IT to begin site survey at Tennant Creek Northern Territory to connect to CrossPoint IP PABX cloud services.
5 July 2011, Sydney
National Auto Glass Supplies, an Australian premier automotive glass supplier agrees to proof of concept with CMS IT to virtualise their phyiscal servers and demonstrate remote backups and replication
1 July 2011, Sydney
CMS IT wins Windgap Foundation contract
CMS Information Technology (CMS IT), a leading managed services innovator announced today that they have won the tender to provide fully managed information technology and telecommunications services for the Windgap Foundation.
Windgap Foundation is one of Sydney’s most respected, longest serving providers of support services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The foundation offers accommodation, training, business services, day programs and early learning playgroups.
“We are so proud to be able to work with such a highly regarded organisation as the Windgap Foundation,” said CMS IT CEO, Angelo Millena. “The Foundation has asked for improved flexibility, reliability and economy out of their IT&T systems, allowing them to concentrate on what they do best – assisting those with intellectual disabilities.”
CMS IT is fast becoming respected as the premier provider of managed services for not-for-profit organisations that are leaders in their field. The Windgap Foundation is no exception, having wide community support and being highly respected for championing the cause of people with an intellectual disability.
15 June 2011, Sydney
CMS IT signs up White Ribbon Foundation, an Australian leading force behind violence against women. Visit www.whiteribbonday.org.au for more information
1 May 2011, Sydney
CMS IT wins Rojone managed services contract. With over 29 years of RF & industry experience, Rojone is also a leading Australian manufacturer in its own right, designing & manufacturing antennas 15MHz to 6GHz, coaxial assemblies to 20GHz including phase & time matched cables, couplers, splitters & combiners to 6GHz, and an excellent range of GPS products. Please visit www.rojone.com.au for more information. |
