Brandon Butler - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Brandon Butler

Article | 9/05/2013 IDC: Cloud, mobility exposing limitations of existing networks

The combination of highly virtualised environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations...

Article | 1/05/2013 Is Twitter broken?

Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which ...

Article | 18/04/2013 In Pictures: OpenStack's hottest products right now

As the OpenStack Summit is underway in Portland, Ore., this week, a variety of companies are making product and services news at the show

Article | 10/04/2013 Navy CIO: Use the cloud, but be careful

The U.S. Navy's CIO has directed that Naval information systems be migrated to commercial cloud service providers, but only for information that has a...

Article | 14/03/2013 Why VMware's hybrid Cloud announcement could be a big deal

Perhaps the biggest selling point for VMware's newly announced hybrid cloud strategy -- and the reason it could be a game changer in the infrastructur...

Article | 13/03/2013 VMware blends in Nicira SDN technology, reveals public cloud plans

VMware today announced it will integrate software-defined networking (SDN) technology it acquired from Nicira into its vCloud suite, while also unveil...

Article | 4/03/2013 Upload 100X faster to Amazon's cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says

WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak last week announced a service that it proclaims speeds data transfers into Amazon's cloud by 100 times compared to...

Article | 28/02/2013 Gartner: Public cloud market to grow 18.5% this year

The global public cloud computing market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, research firm Gartner predicts.

Article | 26/02/2013 Forrester: 70 per cent of private Clouds aren't really Clouds at all

If an enterprise datacentre has a highly virtualised environment, a Web portal for business users to request and access virtual machines and a method ...

Article | 17/01/2013 In Pictures: Presidential Inauguration - there’s an app for that

Where to watch the big event on Jan. 21, plan your trip to DC, or watch President Obama dance Gangnam style

Article | 16/11/2012 In Pictures: Gobble, gobble: Top IT Turkeys of 2012

Find out which companies and people earned the uncoveted 'Turkey' prize

Article | 27/08/2012 In Pictures: iPhoneography, amazing artwork created using an iPhone

The inaugural LA Mobile Arts Festival in Santa Monica features more than 600 images of artwork, all of which originated from the lens of an iPhone

Article | 17/08/2012 In Pictures: 12 cool future transportation concepts

From driverless cars to "never-stopping" trains, the way we get from point A to point B could be very different in the coming decades, most notably be...

Article | 27/07/2012 In Pictures: Olympic gold - 15 free iOS and Android apps

Watch live, keep up with the athletes, test your knowledge of the games and more

Article | 20/07/2012 In Pictures: Beyond Marissa Mayer -Top women in tech

With ex-Google honcho Marissa Mayer taking the reins of Yahoo this week, she joins other prominent females in leadership roles at some of the tech ind...