Australian online advertising agencies ZenithOptimedia and Visual Jazz have picked up a silver and bronze award respectively at the IAB’s sixth annual MIXX Awards, held in New York last week. The agencies, which were successful in the Branded Content and Interactive Video/Online Commercial categories, faced fierce competition for the global Awards which honour innovation and impact.

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced its commitment to continued innovation in data centre networking technologies with the support of the next generation of Fibre Channel (FC) industry standard, FC-PI-5, which will offer 16 gigabits per second (Gbps) performance. Brocade solutions currently represent 67.5 percent of the FC switch and director market share. As a result, the company’s endorsement of the standard is a key element of widespread adoption. 16 Gbps FC is a key technology to support increasing data centre scale and solid state storage, and it will be critical to scaling new virtualised workloads based on its proven performance, reliability and simplicity.

IAB Australia, with the support of the MFA and the AANA, today announced it is inviting online audience measurement (OAM) vendors to submit their services for tender evaluation. The invitation is the culmination of extensive work by the IAB Australia Measurement Council and will result in one vendor being endorsed as the sole and exclusive preferred supplier for the planning, buying and reporting of OAM for a three year term.

Dimension Data today announced that it has been awarded two major Standing Offer Arrangements (SOAs) under the Queensland Government’s ICT Consolidation (ICTC) program. This whole-of-Government program is a key component of the Queensland Government’s investment in delivering efficient, innovative consolidated information and communications technology (ICT) across the public sector and streamlining service delivery to the community.

South-East Queensland Water Grid, Queensland Health and Ambulance Victoria are among six high profile organisations who are now using OCA incident management software developed by Australian software company, Noggin. The announcement comes just two months after Noggin and its OCA software was awarded the coveted Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ (EAL2+) certification.

Two of Australia’s fastest growing carriage service providers, iiNet and M2 Telecommunications, have joined the industry’s peak representative body, Communications Alliance.

Dimension Data has been awarded ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) certification for its Australian head office in Sydney.

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today unveiled the new Brocade MLXe Core Router as part of the Brocade MLX Series of high-density routers. These routers are designed to establish industry benchmarks for performance, scalability and investment protection for service provider and data centre networks. In addition, Brocade is now offering the industry’s most competitively priced 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) solution to address the exponential traffic surge that carriers are experiencing worldwide.

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced Brocade Network Advisor, the industry’s first and only unified network management platform for SAN and IP networks. The new platform provides a single, easy-to-use management solution across Brocade Fibre Channel SANs, IP networks, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks, wireless networks and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks.

Global digital group, AD2ONE has reported a record eight months of growth since opening its Auckland office, with the firm achieving growth of 94 per cent. The company, which provides digital advertising sales services in New Zealand, has secured 10 new clients since opening its office in January, most recently signing exclusive deals with Vidzone, Remix.co.nz, Biggie.co.nz and Gourmet Ads. AD2ONE New Zealand already works with premium sites including Lonely Planet, LinkedIn, Expedia, SportingPulse, Shopping.com and Holidayhomes.co.nz.

Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced the appointment of Ms Jane Smith as the Independent Chair for the Revision of the Communications Alliance Mobile Premium Services (MPS) Code.

Panasonic, its Australian distributor, IPL Communications and MyNetFone have partnered to release Panasonic’s KX-TGP500 range of VoIP wireless phone systems. The range, which is targeted at the SOHO market, offers customers the choice of two device options and phone service solutions, both of which will be bundled with MyNetFone voice services. The new range will be available for reseller orders from 13th September 2010.

The incoming Federal Government should take immediate steps to maximise Australia’s ability to benefit from the Digital Economy.

Today, Dimension Data proudly announced it has won the MAPA 2010 Microsoft Enterprise Partner of the Year Award. The company was chosen out of a national field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on the Microsoft platform. It is the second year running that Dimension Data has won this award.

Dimension Data has launched its eWaste Management Service, a program that offers environmentally-responsible removal, disposal and recycling of electronics materials ranging from the packaging materials for new products when they are delivered, to equipment at end-of-life. The eWaste Management Service also offers the physical or data destruction of electronic data storage equipment.

Global digital group, AD2ONE has won the exclusive online advertising rights for the International Business Times Australia financial news site (www.ibtimes.com.au). Online advertising for IBTimes was previously handled by Postclick and AD2ONE won the work in a competitive pitch. IBTimes joins AD2ONE’S successful Business and Finance category, which already features some of the world’s leading providers of online business and market related intelligence. The Australian IBTimes site achieves 380,000 unique visitors per month and its international network of sites attracts four million unique visitors per month.

Dimension Data Learning Solutions (DDLS) announced today that students affected by the closure of Excom, will have the opportunity to complete their courses at no charge. The offer applies to those students that are mid way through their course who can provide their Excom course confirmation and courseware.

Australian journalist John Westwood has won third place in the video category of the 2010 Seagate Precious Memories regional competition for journalists and bloggers. Westwood’s video “I guess it’s up to us” is a poignant composition about the future sustainability of Australia’s environment. Westwood had previously won second place in the video category of the 2008 Seagate Precious Memories regional competition.

Global digital group, AD2ONE has won the contract to exclusively sell online advertising for Pharmacy Online’s two pharmacy retail websites; www.pharmacyonline.com.au and www.chemistdirect.com. The sites will both join AD2ONE’S successful consumer category, which includes grocery shopping related sites Coles Online, Gourmet Ads and JamieOliver.com.

Communications Alliance today paid tribute to the more than 200 industry professionals who have worked to create the framework for the National Broadband Network.