Stories about: RBA

The Australian dollar opened a touch lower as risk averse investors sold off the local currency over credit ratings fears for the UK and the US.

As the U.S. Department of Transportation proposes stricter rules on the shipments of lithium batteries, a close look at Federal Aviation Administration data finds that mid-air incidents involving batteries have been both rare and, apart from one catastrophe, relatively benign.

As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.

Choosing just enough virtual machines, but not too many, for a given server has always been a challenge. Running a set of virtual servers and the applications that they support on one physical server running just one operating system seems easy enough - at first.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has raised the cash interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.75 per cent.

As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.

One thing I've noticed since I started writing about SOA is that SOA pundits seem to be obsessed with the definition of SOA. Some people feel think business processes have to be part of the definition. Some people focus on interaction vs. integration. Some object to referring to SOA as equivalent to Web services or WOA, others believe that WOA is not only coupled with SOA, WOA is the future of SOA. One person who shall rename nameless believes that, while WOA and SOA may be different, SOA standards should spring from WOA. Still others think business agility is what defines SOA. Yet others link SOA with governance as the critical differentiator. I could go on ad nauseum.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payment Systems Board is entering discussions with PayPal and its owner eBay to encourage the payment provider to voluntarily remove the no-surchage and no-steering rules that have come under fire by the ACCC for being anti-competitive.

Australian banks, credit unions and building societies have completed final Y2K testing and are ready to handle the date change, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).