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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

  • April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

    How ANZ firms are driving automation and AIOps

    Tech leaders from Westpac, NAB, Telstra and ACC New Zealand share their automation journeys, from overcoming cultural resistance to the cautious adoption of AI

  • March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

    Aussie AI health-tech Heidi aims to cure clinical burnout

    Armed with over $100m in funding, Melbourne-based Heidi is building its own AI models and launching wearable hardware to automate documentation and reduce the administrative burden on doctors

  • March 29, 2026 29 Mar'26

    Advancing to the next frontier of AI

    As AI agents move faster than software made for human users, both digital tooling and silicon architecture need to be redesigned to reduce latency and power bottlenecks, according to chief scientists of Nvidia and Google

  • March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

    Oracle opens Sydney customer excellence centre to boost AI adoption

    Facility will help organisations across Australia and Oceania navigate technology challenges and turn AI experimentation into business value

  • March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

    Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware

    As AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI

  • March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

    Why OpenClaw agents are the next big enterprise challenge

    As users flock to deploy OpenClaw agents for everything from gig work to shopping, IT leaders warn that bringing these autonomous systems into the enterprise will require strict guardrails and a mix of AI models

  • March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

    CUDA at 20: From billion-dollar gamble to agentic AI

    As Nvidia marks two decades of CUDA, its head of high-performance computing and hyperscale reflects on the platform’s journey, the power of software optimisation, and how the fusion of GPUs and LPUs will shape the future of AI

  • March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

    Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow

    ServiceNow experts and customers highlight why acting at pace, deploying cross-system AI agents and governance are key in AI adoption

  • March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

    Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade

    Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem

  • March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

    Lendi Group standardises on MongoDB for AI-ready data layer

    Following a merger that left the Australian fintech with a fragmented data architecture, Lendi Group has consolidated its databases onto MongoDB Atlas to reduce microservices sprawl and power AI-driven broker tools

  • March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

    Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform

  • 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

  • March 04, 2026 04 Mar'26

    Weighing the trade-offs of neoclouds and sovereign clouds

    Neocloud and sovereign cloud providers offer alternatives to hyperscalers for AI infrastructure and data sovereignty, but availability gaps and a lack of managed AI services can pose challenges to enterprise customers

  • March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

    Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI

    The cost, speed, and governance of moving petabytes of data across hybrid and multicloud environments is becoming a challenge for enterprises looking to harness the benefits of AI

  • March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

    AI transformation must start at the top, but boards remain divided

    While C-suite interest in AI has shifted from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’, Diligent CEO Brian Stafford warns that true enterprise transformation requires hands-on leadership from the board

  • February 27, 2026 27 Feb'26

    Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption

    The Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda

  • February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

    CrowdStrike touts agentic SOC to tackle security woes

    By embedding AI agents across its platform, CrowdStrike is looking to help security teams automate repetitive security tasks, enabling them to focus on complex and stealthier threats that could slip under the radar

  • February 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

    Why crypto agility is key to quantum readiness

    With quantum computing threatening current encryption standards, experts call for organisations to achieve crypto agility by managing the lifecycle of certificates and cryptographic keys through automation

  • 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