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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

• August 12, 2024 12 Aug'24

  How JSR is using generative AI to drive insights

  JSR Corporation has been using the Cohesity Gaia enterprise search assistant to surface insights from backups of employee mailboxes and OneDrive data

• August 07, 2024 07 Aug'24

  Navigating the data analytics and AI landscape

  Analysts at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney call for organisations to focus on business outcomes, extend data literacy to AI literacy and foster human-AI collaboration to benefit from the AI era

• August 05, 2024 05 Aug'24

  ServiceNow expands footprint in APAC, doubles down on AI

  ServiceNow has been building local teams, targeting customers in regulated industries and doubling down on AI to expand its presence in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region

• August 02, 2024 02 Aug'24

  How CrowdStrike is leveraging AI to empower security teams

  CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev explains how the company’s multi-agent AI architecture can help to enhance analyst efficiency and tackle cyber security challenges

• July 31, 2024 31 Jul'24

  API attacks surge by 65% in APAC, fuelled by rapid digitisation

  Akamai's report reveals a significant rise in cyber attacks on web applications and APIs in the region over the past year, with financial and commerce sectors hardest hit

• July 30, 2024 30 Jul'24

  APAC organisations can cut carbon emissions with AWS

  Accenture study reveals that APAC organisations can significantly reduce their carbon footprint by migrating workloads from on-premise datacentres to AWS

• July 28, 2024 28 Jul'24

  Nearly a third of GenAI projects to be dropped after PoC

  At least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025 as organisations struggle to realise the value of the technology, says Gartner

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  APAC mobile industry to surpass $1tn by 2030

  The APAC region’s mobile industry is expected to exceed $1tn by 2030 due to the rapid adoption of 5G and AI technologies

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  Qualtrics CEO: AI can make businesses more human

  Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin believes AI can democratise experience management and help businesses better understand what matters to both customers and employees

• July 21, 2024 21 Jul'24

  CrowdStrike update snafu affected 8.5 million Windows devices

  About 8.5 million devices globally were hit by the botched CrowdStrike update, with a significant number now back online and operational

• July 18, 2024 18 Jul'24

  Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC

  Neo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  How iProov is fending off deepfake fraud

  Facial biometrics and controlled illumination can detect liveness, verify identities and help prevent deepfake attacks

• July 04, 2024 04 Jul'24

  How Qualtrics is driving experience management with AI

  During the Sydney leg of its X4 conference, Qualtrics’ top executives dived deeper into its efforts to help organisations improve customer and employee experiences with AI

• July 02, 2024 02 Jul'24

  How IAG is tapping data streaming

  The insurance group is using Kafka’s data streaming capabilities to integrate disparate data sources and provide real-time data services to support its business

• June 28, 2024 28 Jun'24

  How Recorded Future is operationalising threat intelligence

  Recorded Future is investing in APIs to enable automated security workflows, among other measures, to help organisations overcome the hurdles of operationalising threat intelligence

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Kmart taps event streaming for real-time insights

  Retailer’s Hamilton event streaming platform delivers real-time insights on container shipments, sales and customer interactions to support its online retail business

• June 24, 2024 24 Jun'24

  Macquarie Cloud debuts Australia-first hybrid offering

  Macquarie Flex brings Azure services to a broader set of workloads that are not suited to run natively on public cloud

• June 20, 2024 20 Jun'24

  Bupa turns to data to provide personalised health services

  Private healthcare provider Bupa says a project to deploy business process automation is bringing it closer to APAC customers

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption

  Tableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI

• June 10, 2024 10 Jun'24

  Driving customer experience through cloud and AI

  Autodesk’s global CIO Prakash Kota explains how the company is modernising its IT infrastructure and adopting cloud and AI to drive customer experience

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  Bond University deploys Nutanix for on-premise servers

  Australian university has migrated 700 on-premise servers to Nutanix following impending hardware refresh and desire to improve disaster recovery

• June 05, 2024 05 Jun'24

  How Dataiku is supporting ‘everyday AI’

  Dataiku president Krish Venkataraman outlines what it takes for enterprises to scale and govern their use of artificial intelligence while making the technology accessible across their business

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  OAIC files civil penalty action against Medibank

  The OAIC alleges that Medibank failed to take reasonable steps to protect the personal information of 9.7 million Australians in the October 2022 data breach

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Mad Max production company gets Dell PowerScale to leverage generative AI

  One supplier enters, one supplier leaves: Australian film production company replaces HPE with Dell storage and compute as it leverages GenAI

• June 02, 2024 02 Jun'24

  Ticketek Australia hit by data breach

  Customer names, dates of birth and email addresses of Ticketek Australia account holders reportedly impacted in latest data breach affecting event ticketing firm

• May 30, 2024 30 May'24

  FWD teams up with AWS on cloud

  The pan-Asian insurer plans to host its core applications on AWS in a five-year agreement that comes on the heels of an earlier deal with Microsoft to tap Azure cloud and AI services

• May 29, 2024 29 May'24

  How APAC organisations are taking to VMware moves

  Large organisations in ANZ are looking for transformation rather than a like-for-like replacement for VMware, while those in India have already adopted a dual-supplier strategy

• May 26, 2024 26 May'24

  Nutanix beefs up AHV hypervisor, doubles down on AI

  Nutanix takes aim at VMware with enhancements to its AHV hypervisor along with tighter integrations with Nvidia and Hugging Face to simplify AI deployments

• May 23, 2024 23 May'24

  APAC to gain $4.5tn in economic value from GenAI

  The region’s largest economies could see a 0.7 percentage point increase in their annual GDP by leveraging generative AI responsibly at scale with a focus on people

• May 23, 2024 23 May'24

  Munich Re sees strong growth in AI insurance

  Global reinsurance giant Munich Re expects more demand for AI insurance from organisations that are looking to manage the risks of AI as they experiment more with the technology

• May 20, 2024 20 May'24

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift evolution and AI moves

  Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks up how OpenShift AI and RHEL AI can work together to lower the cost of training and inferencing to drive AI adoption and the company’s traction with customers looking to move away from VMware

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Akamai’s cloud computing play gains momentum

  The company’s compute business could eventually account for the majority of its revenues, surpassing its security and content delivery businesses, says CEO Tom Leighton

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Google ups ante in GenAI with Gemini enhancements

  Google has updated Gemini 1.5 Pro with a two-million-token context window and debuted a smaller, lightweight model optimised for high-frequency, specialised tasks

• May 13, 2024 13 May'24

  How SingPost is delivering on digital transformation

  SingPost group CIO outlines the company’s efforts to leverage AI and automation to improve operations, emphasising the importance of building the right culture as it expands its regional footprint

• May 09, 2024 09 May'24

  Red Hat bullish on APAC growth, targets automakers and SMEs

  Red Hat is expanding its reach into smaller firms as well as the automotive and other industries to fuel its ‘high-double digit’ growth in the region

• May 07, 2024 07 May'24

  Red Hat eyes AI workloads in platform moves

  Open source juggernaut rolls out offerings to make it easier to fine-tune large language models, among other moves to ease deployment of artificial intelligence workloads

• May 03, 2024 03 May'24

  Why IAM is central to cyber security

  BeyondTrust’s chief security strategist talks up the importance of identity and access management, and the role of cyber insurance in driving security improvements

• May 02, 2024 02 May'24

  How Okta is fending off identity-based attacks

  Okta has been bolstering the security of its own infrastructure and building new tools to scan customer environments for vulnerable identities, among other efforts to fend off identity-based attacks

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  Bad bot traffic in Australia grew 23% in 2023

  Traffic from bad bots that perform malicious tasks accounted for 30.2% of Australia’s internet traffic in 2023

• April 29, 2024 29 Apr'24

  Inside Oracle’s cloud adoption journey

  Oracle CIO Jae Evans outlines the company’s approach to migrating its own infrastructure and applications to cloud and what customers can learn from its cloud journey

• April 25, 2024 25 Apr'24

  Zero trust is a strategy, not a technology

  Zero-trust security should be seen as a strategy to protect high-value assets and is not tied to a specific technology or product, says the model’s creator John Kindervag

• April 18, 2024 18 Apr'24

  International police operation infiltrates LabHost phishing website used by thousands of criminals

  The Metropolitan Police working with international police forces have shut down LabHost, a phishing-as-a-service website that has claimed 70,000 victims in the UK

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  VMware’s APAC customers weigh in on licensing changes

  VMware customers in the region are concerned about higher costs even as they see the benefits of subscription-based pricing and product bundling in the longer term

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  CW Innovation Awards: Arming for efficiency

  Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia’s automated scheduling application has been able to schedule unplanned service calls automatically and reduce travel times for its technicians

• April 16, 2024 16 Apr'24

  Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation

  DBS Bank and NUS were among the top industry innovators that were lauded for various transformational initiatives at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2024

• April 15, 2024 15 Apr'24

  Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS

  The Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Google Cloud debuts agent builder to ease GenAI adoption

  Vertex AI Agent Builder is touted to enable developers with different levels of expertise to build conversational AI agents grounded in enterprise data

• April 10, 2024 10 Apr'24

  Biden considering whether to end prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

  US president Joe Biden says he is considering requests by Australia to end the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under espionage and computer fraud charges

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Google Cloud embeds Gemini across product portfolio

  Google Cloud’s Gemini model will power a slew of AI assistant capabilities across its portfolio to bring the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users

• April 08, 2024 08 Apr'24

  What Cisco’s Splunk acquisition means for APAC customers

  APAC organisations can expect better visibility and insights into their networks and applications along with automation and response capabilities to improve their digital resilience