With the release of IBM PureApplication Platform and PureApplication System firmware V2.2.3, you can create automatically configured hosted VMware environments for more flexibility on how you run and manage your workloads. This series of articles provides a step-by-step guide for users of the PureApplication Platform W1500, W2500, W3500, and W3550 models to work with these advanced capabilities. In Part 3, you set up disaster recovery and learn how to perform three different disaster recovery procedures.

As the construction industry struggles to deal with its impact on the climate, a new crop of people with big ideas are looking for alternative materials to build with. Phil Ayres, an architect and associate professor of architecture in Copenhagen, says the future of building materials isn't high tech polymers or special light metals but mushrooms.  

We hear from the person building an adult-themed, nude water park in Lake Louise, we talk with a stuffy old man who has listened to every episode of the show, and we travel to Cape Breton to meet a group of youths breaking all the rules of quilting.

DAILY BRIEFING: Tasmania's Speaker pauses parliament as tensions run high over her bid for a pay rise, and a police officer charged over the strip search of an 11-year-old boy indicates she'll plead guilty.

The accused Claremont serial killer, Bradley Edwards, has pleaded guilty to attacks on two women in the years leading up to the disappearance of Sarah Spiers.

Police investigate two fires in North Adelaide early this morning, including one which spread through the state branch office of the national doctors' union, causing up to $2 million damage.

At first glance, the secluded camp looks like a lost city. Through the scrub are caravans, tents, vans and little dorms, where a group of kids are switching off technology and learning about Indigenous culture.

In an unassuming warehouse in Wollongong lies the only blast-testing machine of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, providing life-saving information about the defence against bomb attacks.

A Perth man is found guilty of murder after claiming he was defending himself against a home invader when he tied up his victim and bashed and stabbed him before slashing his throat.

The man accused of the Claremont serial killings, Bradley Edwards, has pleaded guilty to attacks on two women in the years leading up to the disappearance of Sarah Spiers.

The trial of the accused Claremont serial killer is delayed by a week, a day after his surprise guilty plea to raping a teenage girl and attacking a young woman in her home.

An audit initiated after London's Grenfell Tower fire which claimed more than 70 lives identifies 14 private West Australian buildings as having high-risk cladding and dozens of others requiring remedial work.

A police officer who was filmed on mobile phones driving into an 18-year-old man in Perth's south-east last year, knocking him down and sending him to hospital, is found guilty of dangerous driving.

A Perth man who believed he had "special powers to identify paedophiles" is found not guilty of murdering a complete stranger at a bus stop because he was driven by psychosis at the time.

A purpose-built home for people with a disability in Mount Gambier has sat vacant for eight months despite having clients ready to move in.

Firefighters extinguish a blaze at Warwick East State School on Queensland's Southern Downs, one of the oldest schools in the state with a building that dates back to the 1850s.

For a time in the 1960s, a natural spring at the foot of the Great Dividing Range was home to Australia's largest swimming pool and legendary "mini-Woodstock" rock concerts.

Using his experience as a scientist, Toowoomba gardener Peter Williamson and his horticulturalist wife Charmaine have developed a sprinkler system that simulates rain.

Former deputy principal Kenneth Ralph Ernst is found guilty of multiple counts of indecent assault of a teenage girl in the 1990s by a Queensland court.

Collingwood footballer Marley Williams has been found guilty of grievous bodily harm over a one-punch attack in Albany.

A Denmark man has pleaded guilty to more than 50 charges relating to filming, or attempting to film, his teenage step-daughter.

Award-winning journalist Allan Clarke returns to his home town with his storytelling skills to help local youth capture the stories of their elders.

A Dubbo man is handed a community correction order and community service after pleading guilty to animal cruelty following his appearance in a video of an emu being plucked.

From small crowds and no coverage to filling the biggest stadium in Australia — the speed of the change in women's cricket defies belief, writes Geoff Lemon.

A man who held a champion female surfer under the water until she went limp has been found guilty of assault.

The only person to lose a home when bushfires swept through a Sunshine Coast beachside suburb last year is finally seeing it rebuilt.

Hundreds of thousands of "coffee table"-sized units will help power a renewable gas plant being built on the Western Downs.

Mother's Milk Bank is hoping four mothers in every 100 can donate breast milk to help build a reserve for emergency events like fire, drought, floods, and now a global pandemic.

As bushfire victims work to rebuild their lives after the devastating Australian summer, a group of quilters is stitching together beautiful handmade squares from around the world to offer a gift that is like a "nice warm hug".

This is Cotillard as you've never seen her, haunted, broken by life, and in the hands of a great director in Jacques Audiard, a visual wild man who takes no emotional prisoners!

The Tweed River Art Gallery features a swag of interesting exhibitions just now, and there's nothing like a gallery hiatus to encourage you to get along to them. The Gallery closes for the first half of October to allow major works on the Margaret Olley Art Centre, which will open as an extension of the gallery in early 2014.

Three young sisters work together to fulfil their dream of owning and operating their own Hereford stud and, despite drought and study, they are making a success of it.

A ship that sank in 1852 off Rye in Victoria has given archaeologists new insights into early Australian boatbuilding.

A student who stabbed a classmate at Renmark High School in South Australia's Riverland is found not guilty on the grounds of mental incompetence.

On a cattle property near the outback Queensland town of Barcaldine, Jocelyn Chandler has created a spectacular green oasis with her own bare hands. Her garden has undergone a dramatic transformation since she and her husband bought the property in 1979, when there was just one mango tree, one kurrajong tree, and a couple of shrubs near the house.

France has accused Beijing of concealing facts, while Germany has suggested it could demand compensation.

Disgraced Cardinal George Pell will not seek a reduced sentence if the Court of Appeal upholds his conviction for sexually abusing two Melbourne choirboys in the 1990s.

A man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of a former regional Victorian mayor near Ballarat in 2017.

A Victorian man accused of murdering Adelaide mother-of-two Suzanne Poll at her workplace in 1993 will plead not guilty to the charge, a court has heard.

Stephen Grimmer, the brother of murdered toddler Cheryl Grimmer who disappeared in 1970, pleads guilty to indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

After police recorded her abusing an elderly woman, a carer told a court what it heard was "me slapping myself". In finding her guilty, the magistrate described the 26-year-old as "mean-spirited and nasty".

Two Jewish convicts sent to Van Diemen's Land, both named Solomon, would go on to lead very different lives. While one became the inspiration for Dickens' Fagin, the other became rich and "respected" — yet could never leave his convict past behind.

Kimberly De Pledge is found guilty of dangerous driving after his loaded cattle truck slammed into a caravan, killing two people on a remote WA highway.

Dark Mofo art experience Hrafn: Conversations with Odin sees tourists returning to the fire-ravaged Huon Valley south of Hobart to spend money and boost the local communities.