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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  CIOs being welcomed back to marketing

  The role of CIOs in shaping the technology buying decisions of marketers is being reinstated as more marketers realise the importance of integrating their services with IT systems

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Australian enterprises warming up to DevOps

  The burgeoning DevOps culture in Australia has attracted new market players and led major banks and telcos to embrace the movement to get development and operations teams working in unison

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  How Unit4 punches above its weight in APAC

  The supplier of enterprise resource planning software is giving users the ability to tweak its software easily without the need for consultants, turning the traditional enterprise software business model on its head

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Australia calls for interventionist approach in new cyber agenda

  The Australian government is forming a cyber defence network comprising security agencies and private sector partners to support a more interventionist approach towards cyber security

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  What machine learning practitioners can learn from data warehousing

  Cloudera’s head of emerging business shares lessons that machine learning practitioners can learn from their cousins in data warehousing

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Australia’s health sector reports most data breaches again

  In the first full quarter since Australia’s mandatory breach disclosure scheme came into effect, healthcare providers reported the most data breaches amid controversy over the national health record system

• July 30, 2018 30 Jul'18

  How F1 and others are moving beyond descriptive analytics

  Formula 1 and Merck Sharp & Dohme are using data analytics to better understand user behaviour and predict the future

• July 29, 2018 29 Jul'18

  Burden of data protection rests on firms and governments

  A senior executive at Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency stressed the role of corporate data governance and government regulations in raising the bar on cyber security

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Google Cloud gaining ground in APAC

  The cloud supplier claims substantial growth in Asia-Pacific, and is upping the ante on partnerships and infrastructure investments across the region

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Australian energy sector caught in security catch-22

  With regulators unwilling to accept security investments that would lead to higher tariffs, there is a chance that Australia’s National Energy Market could face increased cyber risks

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Google wants to ease hybrid cloud woes

  Cloud supplier Google claims its Cloud Service Platform will alleviate complexities in managing microservices in a hybrid IT environment

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  How Splunk is ‘splunking’ data for APAC enterprises

  Splunk’s regional vice-president talks up the company’s business strategy and how its customers are using big data analytics in security and IT operations

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  Rio Tinto transports iron ore with autonomous train

  The 280km journey in Western Australia was made under Rio Tinto’s autonomous train programme aimed at improving the productivity and safety of workers

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Analysts question Australia government’s IBM deal

  Industry analysts and experts have called the wisdom of the A$1bn IBM IT deal into question, with one claiming that the federal government should have used a range of suppliers instead

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Inside one of the world’s largest bug bounty programmes

  Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative may be the top external supplier of software bug reporting for Microsoft and Adobe, but that does not mean it purchases every type of bug

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  Australian startups team up to keep wind turbines humming

  Using acoustic sensors and nanosatellite connectivity, two Australian startups hope to identify potential turbine problems before they occur to secure the country’s wind energy

• July 01, 2018 01 Jul'18

  Australian government grappling with digital transformation woes

  Digital transformation in Australia’s public sector has been beset by soaring rhetoric and vague aspirations by government, a new report reveals

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  University of Melbourne claims quantum computing breakthrough

  Australian scientists have simulated the power of quantum computing on classical computers to solve a mathematical problem, paving the way for future breakthroughs in the nascent field

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  Global IoT security standard remains elusive

  Despite the lack of a global internet of things security standard, existing security frameworks are on the same page in areas such as device upgradability and data stewardship

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  SAP outlines approach to data management

  Through its Hana Data Management Suite, SAP hopes to alleviate the challenges of managing data amid growing data security needs in an increasingly hybrid IT landscape

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  How Australia is gearing up for 5G

  From trialling 5G networks at the recent Commonwealth Games to flying drones in surf sport lifesaving, Australia is becoming a test bed for 5G services with its dense cities and wide-open spaces

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Palo Alto Networks opens cyber range in Australia

  The first of its kind in Asia-Pacific, the cyber range training facility will let Australian IT and security teams hone their skills through cyber security exercises

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  More APAC consumer goods firms expected to adopt blockchain

  The adoption of blockchain technology is likely to increase in the consumer goods industry as more businesses use the technology to address fraud and improve supply chain management

• June 18, 2018 18 Jun'18

  Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT lead datacentre colocation market

  NTT had the biggest market share in Asia-Pacific, while Equinix ranked third in the region during the first quarter of 2018, according to market research data

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Australian university reaches for the stars after HPC boost

  The University of Sydney has upgraded its supercomputing infrastructure to answer big questions on cosmology and keep pace with growing research needs

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Singapore career website hit by PageUp malware scare

  A Singapore government career website was among others affected by a malware attack on an Australian recruitment technology supplier

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  APAC remains a hotbed for software piracy

  The Asia-Pacific region is still seeing the highest use of unlicensed software installations globally, making enterprises more susceptible to cyber attacks from malware

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  What SAP C/4 Hana means for the APAC enterprises

  The cloud-based CRM suite could find takers, but it may not be enticing enough for Salesforce.com CRM customers that also run SAP’s ERP software to make the switch

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Australia’s chief scientist calls for AI regulations

  The proposal would require companies to apply for a trustmark so they know from the outset how their AI is expected to behave

• May 31, 2018 31 May'18

  Australian workers apprehensive about digital transformation

  Nearly four in 10 workers in Australia are worried that they do not have the right skills to compete in the digital economy, survey finds

• May 27, 2018 27 May'18

  Dedicated HPC infrastructure still rules, says Huawei

  A Huawei executive makes the case for dedicated high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, despite the growth of public cloud services that have democratised access to HPC and AI capabilities

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  How AWS keeps its rivals at bay

  A relentless focus on building for customers and inking partnerships with enterprise software bigwigs while lowering prices has given AWS a leg-up over rivals in the ANZ market

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  APAC organisations could lose $1.75tn from cyber attacks

  A study by Frost and Sullivan has found that losses from cyber security incidents could account for 7% of the region’s GDP in 2017

• May 16, 2018 16 May'18

  AI is more than just doing things cheaper and faster

  Choose the parts of AI to deploy to demonstrate return-on-investment and differentiate your brand, says Volkswagen Australia’s chief customer officer

• May 16, 2018 16 May'18

  Google opens third availability zone in Singapore

  The latest Google Cloud Platform availability zone in Singapore follows recent efforts by rivals to extend their lead in the region

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Citrix touts digital workspace app in services play

  Software supplier Citrix’s cloud-based workspace app is part of its efforts to deliver integrated services that support the modern workplace

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  How enterprises can cope with digital disruption

  Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says enterprises can take a leaf from DevOps and build modularity into their technology infrastructure to prepare for the forces of digital disruption

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Oracle’s autonomous database could leave DBAs unemployed

  The long-term future of database administrators could be at risk if every enterprise adopts the Oracle 18c autonomous database

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Red Hat teams up with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, container push

  Building on a strategic alliance first announced in 2015, the two software companies are working together on Red Hat OpenShift on Azure to reduce the complexity of managing containers in a hybrid cloud environment

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  Workday to continue investing heavily in APAC

  Cloud applications supplier has increased its investments in the region by more than 50% in the past year, and is looking to maintain its double-digit growth in international markets

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Australia government earmarks A$70m to refresh supercomputers

  The investment will fund replacements for two supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in an effort to bolster Australia’s research capabilities

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Data analytics is about culture, not technology

  Enterprises need to figure out the business problems they are trying to solve and foster a data-driven culture to benefit from data analytics

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  CenturyLink takes aim at APAC market post-Level 3 merger

  The US telecoms giant is expanding its footprint in Asia through its merger with Level 3, and hopes to bring its offerings on par with that of rivals in the region

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  The dawn of open banking in Australia

  Financial services firms will need to embrace DevOps and modernise their IT infrastructure to compete with more nimble fintech companies in an open banking regime

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  AI is renewing interest in high-performance computing

  Growing adoption of artificial intelligence is spurring interest in high-performance computing beyond research institutions

• April 22, 2018 22 Apr'18

  Thales to open ‘digital factory’ in Asia

  India and Australia are potential candidates for Thales’s new coding centre that will support digital transformation efforts

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Australian supermarket chain hit by IT outage

  Thirty-minute glitch knocked out checkout systems at half of Woolworths’ stores in Australia

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Nginx debuts in Australia amid growing demand for microservices

  The supplier of an open-source application platform is counting on the growing usage of microservices in the perennial search for agility and responsiveness among enterprises

• April 15, 2018 15 Apr'18

  Australian healthcare services most hit by data breaches

  Nearly a quarter of data breaches reported under Australia’s new mandatory data breach regime took place in the healthcare sector

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  Machine learning is the new normal: AWS

  Cloud supplier AWS wants to put machine learning capabilities into the hands of more people in the nascent market for cloud-based AI services