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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

  • March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

    Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI

    Moving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action

  • March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

    What it takes to succeed with AI

    With research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data

  • March 10, 2026 10 Mar'26

    WA auditor general flags weak Microsoft 365 security controls across state entities

    Western Australia’s Office of the Auditor General has uncovered weaknesses in M365 configurations across seven government agencies, leading to compromised accounts and data breaches

  • March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

    Enterprises warming to AI PCs amid growing cloud costs

    While global memory shortages will pose a threat to the broader PC market, AI PCs are gaining momentum across Asia as companies look to cut cloud costs, boost productivity and secure sensitive information

  • February 20, 2026 20 Feb'26

    What it takes to secure agentic commerce

    With AI agents increasingly acting as digital concierges for shoppers, verifying bot identities, securing the APIs they rely on and detecting anomalous behaviour will be key to safeguarding automated transactions, according to Akamai

  • February 15, 2026 15 Feb'26

    Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations

    Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity

  • February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

    APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands

    Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions

  • February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

    Arctic Wolf targets mid-market security gap in APAC

    Following the launch of its full portfolio in Malaysia, the SOC provider discusses the security challenges facing lean IT teams, the value of supplier neutrality, and its roadmap for AI and ransomware protection

  • February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

    As space gets crowded, cyber threats from jamming to stalker satellites loom large

    Experts at the inaugural CYSAT Asia in Singapore warn of the urgency of securing space assets amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities

  • February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

    ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers

    Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil

  • February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

    Why traditional automation is key to avoid the AI solution trap

    Boards are pushing for AI, but Nintex CTO Niranjan Vijayaragavan warns that AI projects are destined to fail without a foundation of traditional automation and clean data

  • February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

    LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time

    LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role

  • February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

    5G and Wi-Fi battle for dominance in APAC

    Analysis from Opensignal reveals that the Asia-Pacific region is no longer converging on a single connectivity model, with some markets pivoting to Wi-Fi while others double down on mobile

  • February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

    Interview: Why identity is the nucleus for cyber security

    Amid a wave of market consolidation, Computer Weekly speaks to Keeper Security’s leadership on how identity and access management systems are becoming unified identity platforms capable of securing both human and machine identities

  • January 22, 2026 22 Jan'26

    Macquarie Bank rolls out AI agent to personalise customer support

    Australian bank launches a 24/7 intelligent assistant capable of asynchronous human hand-off, joining the country’s major financial institutions in the race to deploy AI-powered services

  • January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

    Sovereign and edge AI drive return to on-premise Kubernetes

    While public cloud services remain popular, the need to control sensitive data and maximise GPU performance is pushing enterprises to deploy Kubernetes in their own datacentres

  • January 18, 2026 18 Jan'26

    APAC enterprises to boost AI spend by 15% in 2026

    Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2026 reveals that 96% of APAC organisations are planning to invest more in AI, with a growing reliance on hybrid infrastructure to manage rising inference costs

  • January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

    AI governance provides guardrails for faster innovation

    Dataiku’s field chief data officer for Asia-Pacific and Japan discusses how implementing AI governance can accelerate innovation while mitigating the risks of shadow AI

  • January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

    Woolworths to power Olive digital assistant with agentic AI

    The Australian retail giant is the first in the Asia-Pacific region to use Google’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience to turn its chatbot into a proactive shopping partner

  • January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

    Lenovo taps AI and digital twins to power World Cup 2026

    Technology partner for upcoming football tournament has built an artificial intelligence knowledge assistant for coaches, digital avatars to assist VAR decisions, and smart infrastructure for venue management

  • January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

    Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

    The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

  • January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

    Global cloud infrastructure spending hits $102.6bn in Q3 2025

    The cloud infrastructure market grew 25% year on year, driven by enterprises moving from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, according to research from Omdia

  • December 23, 2025 23 Dec'25

    Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025

    The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation

  • December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

    Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

    Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

  • December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

    Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code

    With 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures

  • December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

    OAIC to launch blitz on privacy compliance

    Australia’s privacy watchdog will begin the new year with a compliance sweep targeting businesses that run afoul of privacy rules, including the over-collection of personal information in-person, warning that non-compliance could trigger fines

  • December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

    Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer

    While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

  • December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

    AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent

    At AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics

  • November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

    Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues

    As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI

  • November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

    Organisations facing sustainability challenge amid AI ambitions

    Cisco and NTT Data executives warn that while business leaders drive AI adoption, both legacy infrastructure and rising energy costs are creating a sustainability bottleneck that requires urgent attention

  • November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

    AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

    AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

  • November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

    Monday.com touts AI as cure for productivity slump

    At its Elevate conference in Sydney, the workflow management supplier showed off new artificial intelligence capabilities to tackle burnout, while showcasing customer wins from Tennis Australia, Ray White and Freedom

  • November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

    Firstsource ditches labour arbitrage for AI-driven outcomes

    The business process services firm argues that the days of simple labour arbitrage are gone as it pushes an ‘un-BPO’ strategy led by AI and automation

  • November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

    Cisco: Network architectures must be rebuilt for agentic AI

    Rising traffic volumes, AI-powered security threats and the move to agentic workflows will require organisations to modernise their network infrastructure

  • November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

    Microsoft unveils AI agents to automate security operations

    Tech giant bakes AI agents into its security products to democratise advanced security capabilities, automate repetitive tasks and provide context-aware intelligence for cyber defenders

  • November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

    Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion

    US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium

  • November 16, 2025 16 Nov'25

    Australia lags regional peers in AI adoption

    Report finds governance gaps, a lack of training and fear of risks as key reasons for the nation’s slow uptake of artificial intelligence compared with regional peers

  • November 16, 2025 16 Nov'25

    AI’s hidden sting: A threat to millions of bees

    The energy demands of artificial intelligence could have a devastating impact on Australia’s honeybee population, study warns

  • November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

    Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

    Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

  • November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

    Google: Don’t get distracted by AI, focus on real cyber threats

    While hackers are using artificial intelligence to optimise attacks, many of the most damaging breaches still rely on old-school methods, says a top security analyst from Google

  • November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

    How Palo Alto Networks is leveraging AI

    Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how the company is using AI to sieve through 90 billion security events a day, and why security and user experience are two sides of the same coin

  • November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

    Darktrace: Developer tools under constant attack

    Attackers are using automated tools to target development environments within seconds of them going live, warns Darktrace’s global field chief information security officer

  • November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

    Fewer data breaches in Australia, but human error now a bigger threat

    Australian privacy commissioner warns that the human factor is a growing threat as notifications caused by staff mistakes rose significantly even as total breaches declined 10% from a record high

  • November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

    How Zoom is approaching agentic AI

    Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning