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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Toyota Australia under cyber attack

  The company has confirmed the attempted attack that took out its email system, forcing employees to turn to other forms of communication to continue working

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  APAC enterprises are just getting started on AI

  Despite clear benefits of adopting the technology, only 41% of enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region have embarked on their artificial intelligence journey

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Higher wages for IT professionals in Australia and New Zealand, but diversity issues remain

  The talent crunch in Australia and New Zealand has pushed up wages in the IT sector, but more work is needed to foster workplace diversity

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Finding security in the cloud

  When choosing a cloud security provider, enterprises will need to consider the level of data privacy and data security risk involved

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Chief data officer role now well-entrenched, says Gartner

  Three out of five chief data officers in a Gartner study reported an increase in headcount, though few are measuring the value of their data assets

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Dell Boomi taps APAC cloud market

  The supplier of cloud-based integration services has expanded into Southeast Asia following its debut in Australia about two years ago

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  Lucidworks CEO talks up ‘data experiences’

  Will Hayes discusses Lucidworks’ Asian expansion plans, as well as efforts to help enterprises deliver rich data experiences for employees and customers through AI-augmented search engines

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Australian government warns of blockchain gaps

  Digital Transformation Agency dispels some myths around blockchain, calling for government agencies to be cautious about using the technology

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  APAC healthcare providers losing $23m to cyber attacks

  Healthcare organisations in the Asia-Pacific region could lose an average of $23.3m to cyber attacks, including losses from productivity and customer churn, a study finds

• February 10, 2019 10 Feb'19

  Australia’s defence department keeps old PCs out of landfills

  Department has securely wiped data from used devices and kept 1,300 tonnes of e-waste out of landfills

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  Data breaches in Australia show no sign of abating

  Australia’s privacy watchdog recorded over 800 cases of data breaches, nearly one year into the country’s mandatory data breach notification regime

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Hyper-converged infrastructure gains acceptance in APAC

  A top Nutanix executive claims that migrations to hyper-converged infrastructure in the region are under way, fuelled by growing interest in hybrid cloud

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  How traffic scrubbing can guard against DDoS attacks

  Although most scrubbing services can help fend off distributed denial of service attacks, a more comprehensive mitigation strategy is required to remain unscathed

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Australian government turns to Rimini Street for software support

  A slew of Australian government agencies have switched out SAP and Oracle maintenance contracts for third-party support services

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  AWS now accredited to run protected workloads in Australia

  Accreditation from the Australian Cyber Security Centre will enable organisations to store and process sensitive data in the Amazon Web Services Sydney region

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  New Zealand faces more state-sponsored attacks

  Nearly four in 10 cyber security incidents recorded by the National Cyber Security Centre were the work of state-sponsored threat actors

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Australia’s Optus dials into 5G

  Australia’s second largest telco Optus makes the country’s first 5G data call, paving the way for a fixed wireless service by the first half of 2019

• January 04, 2019 04 Jan'19

  ANZ businesses prefer hybrid cloud

  Companies in Australia and New Zealand are embracing public cloud, but many still prefer a hybrid IT setup

• January 03, 2019 03 Jan'19

  Trust is key to Microsoft’s APAC cloud play

  A senior Microsoft Asia executive talks up the company’s cloud momentum in the region, how it stands out from the pack, and its priorities in the new year

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  Huawei aims to be more resilient in 2019 amid challenges

  Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping outlines the firm’s priorities to optimise its product portfolio, empower employees and build a more resilient business structure

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Microsoft raises cloud prices for Australian enterprise customers

  Despite the price hike, Microsoft claims its Azure service remains competitively priced, with opportunities for additional savings

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2018

  Australia continues to cement its position as a leader in mastering and deploying advanced information and communications technology across a large segment of its economy

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  APAC cyber security landscape to be more tumultuous in 2019

  Amid growing cyber threats, the Asia-Pacific cyber security landscape will not get any rosier in 2019 unless organisations start shoring up their cyber hygiene

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Australia passes controversial encryption law

  Arguments continue over law that requires companies to work with government agencies to ensure that encrypted communications can be read if a crime is suspected

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Hybrid cloud in Australian government removes supplier lock-in

  Australian public sector could take the hybrid approach to cloud computing as government’s digital transformation strategy moves ahead

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  Australia races towards commercial quantum computing

  Universities make headway in the challenge of commercialising quantum computing

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  APAC healthcare providers reaping digital transformation returns

  Digital transformation could potentially double the improvements in integrated care by 2020, study finds

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  HPE shows off first fruits of $4bn edge computing investment

  Tech supplier has beefed up its Edgeline portfolio with new hardware and software offerings to make it easier to manage edge devices, applications and data

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  It’s still early days for hybrid IT in APAC

  The tipping point for hybrid IT adoption will come only when more enterprises start running production workloads on the public cloud, says HPE’s chief technologist for the region

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres

  The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019

  Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations

• November 17, 2018 17 Nov'18

  Credit card fraud in ANZ showing no signs of abating

  The value of fraudulent transactions more than doubled that of legitimate purchases during the third quarter this year

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  NetSuite finds sweet spot in Asia

  With a fast-growing economy and government programmes to drive digital transformation, Asia is proving to be fertile ground for the cloud ERP pioneer

• November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

  Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot is now designing textile patterns

  Software giant claims the design knowhow of its popular AI chatbot is a breakthrough in the field of image-based creation

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Australia needs better cloud and data management capabilities

  Use of cloud services is soaring in Australia, but a lack of cloud management skills is holding back enterprises from reaping the full benefits of the technology

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  APAC enterprises, analysts weigh in on IBM-Red Hat deal

  Mega-deal could accelerate adoption of open source software and extend the reach of OpenStack and OpenShift across the region

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  APAC firms warm up to SD-WAN to solve networking woes

  A third of enterprises in the APAC region have already deployed SD-WAN at most of their sites, while 55% are in the process of doing so, a study shows

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Australia’s data breaches are a ‘sign of naiveté’

  McAfee executive attributes Australia’s poor cloud security record to the lack of data protection measures amid “new and confusing” cloud configurations

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  How Avanade keeps pace with Microsoft and the market

  Systems integrator Avanade has had to adapt to Microsoft’s evolution into an “ecosystem platform” that includes open-source software

• October 28, 2018 28 Oct'18

  Australia earns mixed record in IT agility

  Despite being fervent adopters of cloud, Australian enterprises are slower than those in the US and UK in deploying business-critical applications

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Sibos 2018: ‘Black swan’ cyber event is inevitable

  With security experts and bankers expecting a 9/11-style cyber event, deeper collaboration between companies and governments is necessary to identify emerging threats before they occur

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Software suites will dominate the business applications market

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd contends that having a common user interface and the ability to support data flows across a business are key capabilities that will spur the dominance of software suites over time

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  APAC security spending tipped to reach new highs

  Security services will be the largest and fastest-growing slice of the overall security pie in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

  Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Apple challenges Australia’s proposed decryption law

  Tech giant Apple argued that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Optus to acquire Hivint in cyber security deal

  The deal is expected to bolster the telco’s security pedigree in a market that is grappling with more data breaches and cyber incidents

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Blockchain adoption hotting up in Australia

  The emerging technology is being tested in several industries in a country aspiring to be a global leader in blockchain development

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  APAC SMEs still hanging on to older PCs

  A majority of small and medium-sized business in Asia-Pacific are still using PCs older than four years out of cost and application compatibility concerns

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  How Australian firms are plugging the tech talent gap

  Australian companies such as Atlassian and Ansarada are now turning to international options to access scarce talent

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Australian teen Apple hacker avoids jail time

  “Fan” who broke into Apple’s mainframe from his home in Melbourne has avoided prison because the information he gathered was recovered