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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

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
October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25
Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount

The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response

October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25
Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey

Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud
October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25
BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration

Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia
October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25
AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region
October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25
Canva to save 30,000 work hours with agentic AI

The graphic design giant is training hundreds of staff on a low-code AI platform and agentic AI tools that are set to save around 30,000 person-hours this year and generate financial returns
October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25
Building security and trust in AI agents

AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say
October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25
AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO

To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns

October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25
F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code

F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry
October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25
Obsession with cyber breach notification fuelling costly mistakes

The race to meet security breach notification deadlines is leading to staff burnout, destroyed evidence and a culture of blame, warns a Trend Micro risk and security strategist
October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25
Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI

The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson
October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25
Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres
October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25
Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks

Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud
October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25
Meta to boost APAC connectivity with subsea cable

The 8,000km Candle subsea cable is expected to bolster internet capacity for more than a billion people as tech giants continue to invest in digital infrastructure across the region
October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25
SAP: AI is commoditising business applications

Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader
October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25
Why AI agent projects are stalling in production

A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments
October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25
How AI is driving a rethink of storage architecture

Pure Storage’s head of AI infrastructure, Par Botes, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence will require storage systems with audit trails and versioning to ensure trust and traceability
September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25
Google unveils AI-powered security to trap ransomware attacks

The new security capability, available at no extra cost for most Google Workspace users, detects mass file encryption during ransomware attacks, stops the attacks from spreading and allows for restoration of files
September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25
Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI

Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation
September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25
Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth

The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes
September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25
Salesforce shifts focus from AI models to agentic AI

Rather than being preoccupied with large language models, Salesforce is now focused on building AI agents, with an eye on achieving what it calls ‘enterprise general intelligence’
September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25
Pentera expands in APAC, taps AI to outsmart attackers

The penetration testing specialist is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and deploying AI-driven capabilities as it eyes acquisitions and a potential IPO
September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25
Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy

Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer
September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25
Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments

Google’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions
September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25
Exabeam: Treat AI agents as the new insider threat

As artificial intelligence agents are given more power inside organisations, Exabeam’s chief AI officer, Steve Wilson, argues they must be monitored for rogue behaviour just like their human counterparts
September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25
Telcos urged to ‘delayer’ for survival and growth

Faced with commoditised services and low returns, telcos must radically restructure into separate infrastructure, network and service units to unlock value and innovate, says Kearney
September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25
Open source security and sustainability remain unsolved problem

While software bills of materials offer some transparency over software components, they don’t solve the imbalance between corporate consumption of open source software and the lack of investment in its security and health
September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25
AI boom to push Australian IT spending past A$172bn

Australian IT spending is set to grow by 8.9% in 2026, driven by growing investments in artificial intelligence, datacentre systems and cloud, according to Gartner
September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25
Fastly CEO plots course through AI and security

Chief exec Kip Compton explains how Fastly’s unified platform is solving the web’s biggest challenges, from content scrapping by AI bots to distributed denial-of-service attacks
September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25
AWS goes live in New Zealand

The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, comprising three availability zones and powered by renewable energy, will enable organisations to store sensitive data in the country
September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25
JFrog extends DevSecOps playbook to AI governance

The software security specialist is leveraging its capabilities in DevSecOps to address security, data provenance and bias in AI models
August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25
Broadcom bundles private AI into VCF, adds security automation

At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom unveiled an integrated private cloud stack with VMware Private AI now included in VCF subscriptions, alongside cyber security services and support for cloud-native object storage
August 25, 2025 25 Aug'25
How to secure the identity perimeter and prepare for AI agents

Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand explains why identity has become the critical security battleground, how decentralised credentials will reduce data breach risks, and why AI agents will need their own identities to be trusted
August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25
Dell builds on $50m Singapore investment with new AI hub

Dell Technologies has opened an AI innovation hub to speed artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and upskill 10,000 students and mid-career professionals in Singapore
August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25
Without a data strategy, AI will just scale your chaos

Snowflake’s chief data analytics officer, Anahita Tafvizi, explains why a data strategy focused on governance, consistency and accuracy is the only way to build artificial intelligence that users will trust
August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25
Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform

Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts
August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25
Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience

Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience
August 13, 2025 13 Aug'25
SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI

The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne
August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25
Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure
August 08, 2025 08 Aug'25
Cloudera touts hybrid data platform to power enterprise AI boom

At its Evolve APAC 2025 conference in Singapore, Cloudera promises to end the compromise between on-premise data control and public cloud convenience with its hybrid data platform
August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25
How Australian firms are using graph databases

Banks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production
August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25
How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security

Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security
July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25
Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25bn

The deal marks Palo Alto Networks’ entry into the identity and access management space amid the growing need to secure human, machine and emerging AI agent identities
July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25
ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play

The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market
July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25
Industry experts warn crypto infrastructure is ‘creaking’

A report from experts at HSBC, Thales and InfoSec Global claims decades-old cryptographic systems are failing, putting businesses at risk from current vulnerabilities and the threat from quantum computing
July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25
Australian LEO satellite spending to hit A$664m in 2026

Research shows spending will increase by 6.6% from 2025, as applications for IoT, infrastructure backhaul and direct-to-device connectivity push LEO services into the enterprise mainstream
July 29, 2025 29 Jul'25
Logicalis targets APAC’s mid-market with ‘GSI quality’ services

The global technology service provider is banking on its ‘think global, act local’ strategy, a deep focus on application modernisation and security to differentiate itself in the region
July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25
Data resilience critical as ransomware attacks target backups

With more threat actors targeting backup repositories to ensure a payday, Veeam urges organisations to treat data resilience as a competitive advantage, not just an insurance policy