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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

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
PCI council eyes wider data protection role beyond payments

Hailed as the gold standard for securing credit card information, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) could be extended to protect other kinds of data following industry feedback
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
July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25
ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy

ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications
July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25
Hackbots biggest cloud security risk, slashing attack times to minutes

With cyber criminals using automated tools to steal data in minutes, organisations must focus on runtime protection and automated responses to combat the rising threat from AI and misconfigured cloud assets
July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25
Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform

As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO
July 15, 2025 15 Jul'25
Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth

The observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share
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