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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

  • November 06, 2023 06 Nov'23

    How Trellix’s CISO keeps threat actors at bay

    Trellix’s chief information security officer, Harold Rivas, outlines how the company mitigates security threats through containment and by helping security analysts to respond faster to cyber incidents

  • November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

    SAP lays out generative AI strategy

    SAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers

  • October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

    How Elastic manages cyber security threats

    Mandy Andress, CISO at Elastic, highlights the company’s approach to tackling evolving cyber threats through the use of AI tools and enhanced security measures while strengthening the capabilities of its security offerings

  • October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

    Demystifying the top five OT security myths

    Goh Eng Choon, president of ST Engineering’s cyber business, outlines the common myths around OT security in a bid to raise awareness of the security challenges confronting OT systems

  • October 24, 2023 24 Oct'23

    Microsoft to invest A$5bn in Australia

    Microsoft is making its largest investment in Australia to expand its infrastructure footprint, alongside plans to bolster skills training and cyber security in the country

  • October 23, 2023 23 Oct'23

    How Ensign is leading the charge in cyber security

    Lee Fook Sun, chairman of Ensign InfoSecurity, traces the company’s journey and how it is leading the charge in cyber security by doing things differently, investing in R&D and engaging with the wider ecosystem

  • October 19, 2023 19 Oct'23

    How AWS is building a tech stack for generative AI

    Olivier Klein, chief technologist for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services, dives deeper into the technology stack the company has built to ease GenAI adoption

  • October 17, 2023 17 Oct'23

    What it takes to succeed in DevSecOps

    Providing engineering leadership and balancing between speed and security are some areas that organisations will need to focus on in their DevSecOps journey

  • October 16, 2023 16 Oct'23

    How APAC organisations are tapping generative AI

    Organisations in the region are deploying and experimenting with generative AI in healthcare, citizen services and other use cases amid cost-related concerns and other challenges

  • October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

    How generative AI and cloud complement each other

    McKinsey partner explains the symbiotic relationship between generative AI and cloud, enabling organisations to speed up cloud migration and harness the benefits of AI

  • October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

    Telstra to acquire Versent for A$267.5m

    The move is expected to bolster Telstra’s enterprise IT services business and support international expansion

  • October 09, 2023 09 Oct'23

    VMware reaffirms commitment to Tanzu

    VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram emphasises the importance of having an infrastructure stack capable of supporting applications, with VMware Tanzu playing a pivotal role

  • October 06, 2023 06 Oct'23

    Hydrogen fuel cells could find their way into more datacentres

    Hydrogen fuel cells are more efficient and cleaner than alternative generator technologies, making them environmentally sustainable backup power supply options for datacentres, study finds

  • October 04, 2023 04 Oct'23

    HPE hones GreenLake strategy with AI moves, hybrid cloud management

    HPE has evolved its GreenLake strategy over the past five years, expanding beyond its as-a-service offerings to include a capital purchase model and a strong focus on hybrid cloud management and AI

  • October 03, 2023 03 Oct'23

    How Pure Storage is supporting AI workloads

    Pure Storage’s cloud-compatible and energy-efficient modular flash storage architecture is well-poised to address the data storage demands of artificial intelligence workloads

  • October 03, 2023 03 Oct'23

    Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group

    A conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly

  • October 02, 2023 02 Oct'23

    How the Australian government is approaching AI

    The Australian government is experimenting with AI use cases in a safe environment while it figures out ways to harness the technology to benefit citizens and businesses

  • September 28, 2023 28 Sep'23

    How Akamai is driving growth in APAC

    Akamai's managing director for the region outlines the company’s growth journey, how it sets itself apart from competitors, and its strategies to drive the next phase of growth

  • September 25, 2023 25 Sep'23

    How Liverpool FC is tapping cloud and data analytics

    Liverpool Football Club is leveraging data analytics and cloud technology to improve fan engagement and enable its media production team to work more efficiently

  • September 22, 2023 22 Sep'23

    How Confluent is tapping the groundswell in data streaming

    Confluent CEO Jay Kreps talks up the misconceptions of Kafka and what the company is doing to help customers better leverage the capabilities of the technology

  • September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

    Cook Islands schools to get wired broadband

    Schools in the Cook Islands, which have been relying on satellite connectivity for teaching and learning, will get access to wired broadband via two Pacific submarine cables over the next three years

  • September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

    How Google is priming its infrastructure for the AI wave

    The technology giant is integrating purpose-built hardware with an optimised software stack to meet the heightened computational demands of next-generation AI workloads

  • September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

    How DocuSign is extending its capabilities beyond e-signatures

    DocuSign is harnessing large language models to help individuals make sense of agreements and employing AI-based biometrics to verify the identity of signers, as part of its broader efforts to expand its capabilities beyond electronic signatures

  • September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

    IT spending in Australia to grow 7.8% in 2024

    The growth will be led by investments in cyber security, cloud, analytics and application modernisation as Australian CIOs look to improve cost and operational efficiencies

  • September 11, 2023 11 Sep'23

    How Culture Amp is tapping generative AI

    Australia’s Culture Amp is building a generative AI capability that summarises employee survey responses, automating a process that typically takes HR admins up to hundreds of hours to complete

  • September 08, 2023 08 Sep'23

    How Netskope is driving growth in APAC

    Netskope is growing at over 50% year on year in the Asia-Pacific region, but the single-vendor SASE supplier is not limiting its customers to its own offerings

  • September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

    Mobile broadband approaches full regional reach in Asia-Pacific

    Report from global mobile industry trade body finds mobile broadband networks are fundamental to national development in APAC as digital transformation accelerates

  • August 30, 2023 30 Aug'23

    Google Cloud ups ante in generative AI

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Google Cloud Next 2023 by underscoring the company’s efforts to make generative AI tools more accessible to businesses and workers

  • August 29, 2023 29 Aug'23

    More Aussie apartments to get high-speed fibre

    NBN will enter into Area Switch Agreements with corporate bodies to deliver high-speed fibre to some 700,000 apartments across Australia

  • August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

    AWS debuts Dedicated Local Zones with Singapore government as first customer

    The new offering will be fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by a customer or community, and placed in a customer-specified location or datacentre

  • August 21, 2023 21 Aug'23

    Red Hat CEO on AI moves and source code kerfuffle

    Matt Hicks talks up Red Hat’s efforts to support generative AI adoption through OpenShift AI and weighs in on the issues surrounding the company’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

  • August 18, 2023 18 Aug'23

    MongoDB secures IRAP certification

    MongoDB’s certification from Australia’s Information Security Registered Assessor Program will pave the way for federal government agencies to use its Atlas database service for protected workloads

  • August 16, 2023 16 Aug'23

    CyberArk eyes growth beyond PAM

    CyberArk is seeing exponential growth in the broader identity security market as the company expands its capabilities beyond privileged access management

  • August 14, 2023 14 Aug'23

    How Qualtrics is driving experience management

    Qualtrics’ global and regional leaders outline the company’s product directions, including its work in AI, its traction in the region and the future of experience management

  • August 08, 2023 08 Aug'23

    Blundstone taps Microsoft Dynamics 365 in ERP refresh

    Iconic footwear company has migrated its legacy ERP system to Dynamics 365 to support the demands of its growing business

  • August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23

    Two million more Australian households ready to upgrade to nbn 

    Australia’s national broadband network on track to enable up to 10 million premises, or up to 90% of homes and businesses, to access wholesale download speeds of 500Mbps to near 1Gbps by the end of 2025

  • July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

    SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play

    SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

  • July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

    Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy

    Cloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas

  • July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

    Why cyber security should be part of your ESG strategy

    The impact of data breaches and cyber threats on businesses, societies and the environment makes cyber security a key consideration in an environment, social and governance strategy

  • July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

    Australia’s IaaS market surges 37.1% in 2022

    IaaS remains the engine of growth in the Australian IT market and is showing no signs of slowing down, according to Gartner

  • July 17, 2023 17 Jul'23

    Zoom doubles down on customer experience in UCaaS play

    Zoom is going beyond its roots in employee experience as it looks to strengthen its position in the unified communications-as-a-service market

  • July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

    Nutanix eyes PaaS services with Project Beacon

    Nutanix is extending its reach higher up the software stack with Project Beacon, a multi-year effort to deliver PaaS services across distributed environments

  • July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

    NUS researchers develop biological camera to store images

    NUS researchers have built a biological camera to store and organise images on live cells, potentially shaking up the data storage industry

  • July 10, 2023 10 Jul'23

    How Confluent is maintaining its edge in event streaming

    Confluent co-founder Jun Rao talks up the company’s business and how it competes with hyperscalers and other suppliers of managed Kafka services

  • July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

    Over half of ANZ organisations hit by ransomware

    Amid the rising ransomware threat, almost four in five organisations in ANZ expect to pay a ransom if they could recover data and business processes

  • June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

    ANZ IT pros get salary bump this year

    Over half of IT professionals in Australia and New Zealand received a higher salary this year, underscoring the tight IT labour market

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