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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

  • July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

    AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs

    As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president

  • July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

    AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications

  • July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

    CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

    Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation

  • July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

    Qantas details impact of data breach on 5.7 million customers

    Australian flag carrier begins notifying millions of individuals after a cyber attack on a call centre, confirming that while financial and passport details are safe, a significant volume of other personal information was compromised

  • July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

    Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

    The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters

  • July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

    Enterprise AI adoption moving beyond experimentation

    Moe Abdula, vice-president of customer engineering at Google Cloud, discusses the shift from AI experimentation to production, and the role of infrastructure and agentic platforms

  • July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

    Qantas customer data exposed in contact centre breach

    Australian flag carrier is investigating significant data theft of personal information for up to six million customers after a third-party platform used by its call centre was compromised

  • July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

    Firms must adopt skills-based strategy for human-AI workforce

    To unlock the value of AI agents, organisations must shift to a skills-based strategy and manage their new digital employees with the same rigour as their human workforce, according to a senior Workday executive

  • June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

    Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI

    At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents

  • June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

    Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

    The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery

  • June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

    Infrastructure and governance are key for GenAI adoption

    Many generative AI projects are failing to scale because firms are overlooking foundational needs like network modernisation and governance frameworks, says a regional leader at NTT Data

  • June 15, 2025 15 Jun'25

    Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot

    The company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours

  • June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

    How breaking things builds resilient systems

    To prevent and recover from outages in today’s complex, cloud-native world, enterprises must proactively and deliberately inject failure into their systems through chaos engineering practices

  • June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

    Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era

    Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference

  • June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

    Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

    From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China

  • June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

    CISOs must translate cyber threats into business risk

    To manage risk effectively and secure board-level buy-in, CISOs must stop talking about technology and start speaking the language of business, according to a senior Check Point executive

  • June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

    How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps

    GitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response

  • June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

    Open source adoption faces reality checks

    Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges

  • June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

    How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI

    Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach

  • May 30, 2025 30 May'25

    Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy

    Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud

  • May 28, 2025 28 May'25

    ANZ firms spending more on data management

    Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds

  • May 28, 2025 28 May'25

    Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers

    Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps

  • May 26, 2025 26 May'25

    Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future

    With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors

  • May 22, 2025 22 May'25

    How to tackle your infrastructure technical debt

    Gartner analysts explain how infrastructure and operations teams can address the accumulation of outdated systems and make a compelling business case for upgrades

  • May 22, 2025 22 May'25

    Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands

    As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI

  • May 21, 2025 21 May'25

    Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum

    Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week

  • May 20, 2025 20 May'25

    Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy

    Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems

  • May 20, 2025 20 May'25

    Rio Tinto overhauls IT operations with platform model

    Rio Tinto’s head of technology platforms outlines the mining giant’s move to an IT platform model designed to escape a reactive cycle of critical incidents and improve service quality for internal and external customers

  • May 19, 2025 19 May'25

    Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential

    Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive

  • May 18, 2025 18 May'25

    AI’s thirst for power pushing enterprises into supercomputing

    The compute and energy demands of large-scale AI are turning enterprise AI infrastructure into supercomputing, though the search for a killer app and concerns over initial infrastructure costs remain

  • May 14, 2025 14 May'25

    New security paradigm needed for IT/OT convergence

    Industry leaders and policymakers highlight growing cyber threats from the integration of IT and operational technology systems, calling for collaboration and regulatory frameworks to protect critical systems, among other measures

  • May 14, 2025 14 May'25

    Australian public cloud spending to hit A$26.6bn in 2025

    Gartner forecasts strong growth in cloud infrastructure and platform services even as Australian organisations grapple with scaling AI initiatives and managing rising cloud expenditure

  • May 13, 2025 13 May'25

    Australian data breaches hit record high in 2024

    More than 1,100 data breaches were reported in Australia last year, a 25% jump from 2023, prompting calls for stronger security measures across businesses and government agencies

  • May 08, 2025 08 May'25

    Data streaming matures, cultural shift is key

    Confluent’s Tim Berglund warns that a cultural transformation towards creating valued data products is vital even as the technology for data streaming is maturing

  • May 07, 2025 07 May'25

    Bill Gates hails ‘stunning’ AI progress, urges focus on global equality

    The Microsoft co-founder underscored AI’s transformative potential in healthcare, education and agriculture while highlighting the need to ensure its benefits reach lower-income nations

  • May 06, 2025 06 May'25

    Data issues cost Australian businesses nearly A$500k annually

    Research reveals Australian organisations are losing an average of nearly half a million dollars annually due to poor data integrity, hindering their ability to leverage AI and eroding their competitive edge

  • April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

    Juniper doubles down on AI as HPE deal faces scrutiny

    Juniper’s ANZ chief highlights strong enterprise adoption of the Mist networking platform, with AI-powered automation delivering cost savings and operational benefits for customers

  • April 29, 2025 29 Apr'25

    Kaspersky calls for cyber immunity amid growing cyber threats

    The rise of professional cyber crime groups and state-sponsored actors targeting critical infrastructure requires a move towards inherently secure ‘cyber immune’ systems, says Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky

  • April 25, 2025 25 Apr'25

    How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design

    At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure

  • April 21, 2025 21 Apr'25

    Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards

    Citic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025