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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

• 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

• June 25, 2023 25 Jun'23

  Aussie-built database migration tool makes global debut

  MongoDB’s engineering team in Australia has built a database migration tool to help customers migrate traditional relational databases to its document database

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia

  Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  How Fastly thinks differently about CDNs and the edge

  Fastly is counting on its developer chops and different approaches towards security and other areas to compete with its rivals

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments

  Lenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  NBN Co sets out to achieve net-zero by 2050

  Australia’s national broadband network operator plans to tap renewable energy and roll out energy-efficient fibre as part of its longer-term target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Cyber attacks against APAC commerce sector surpass 1.1 billion

  Retailers, hotels and travel-related organisations in the region saw over a billion cyber attacks last year amid the surge in e-commerce activity and online travel bookings

• June 12, 2023 12 Jun'23

  How Dell is easing edge deployments

  Dell’s NativeEdge platform could make it easier to deploy and manage edge computing applications and infrastructure through validated designs for industry-specific applications use cases

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  How Pendula is driving customer communications

  The Australian startup’s conversational messaging platform lets businesses draw on internal and external data to cross-sell and upsell their offerings while improving customer retention

• May 29, 2023 29 May'23

  Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic

  Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms

• May 28, 2023 28 May'23

  Australia’s Disability Trust picks Boomi integration platform

  The non-profit organisation is using Boomi’s integration platform to integrate a mix of legacy and new systems to deliver real-time data updates and improve payroll processing, among other goals

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Australian government IT spending to grow 8.4% in 2023

  The Australian government will increasingly look to digital investments, particularly automation, to drive efficiency opportunities and improve service delivery, according to Gartner

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Dell outlines growth strategy in APAC

  Dell Technologies is building on its momentum with Apex while eyeing growth areas such as edge computing and AI in a bid to expand its business in the region

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Dell bolsters Apex to ease multicloud deployments

  In the biggest expansion of its Apex portfolio, Dell Technologies adds storage offerings and a trio of cloud platforms that integrate OpenShift, Azure and vSphere with Dell infrastructure

• May 21, 2023 21 May'23

  AI-powered robot starts sorting Melbourne’s recyclables

  Melbourne’s APR Kerbside has been using an AI-powered robot to pick up used Tetra Pak beverage cartons that can be turned into poly-coated boards

• May 19, 2023 19 May'23

  Navigating artificial intelligence: Red flags to watch out for

  Lou Steinberg, founder of cyber security research lab CTM Insights, flags up the risks of the growing use of AI, and what organisations can do to tame the technology for good

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Inside MLC Life Insurance’s cloud journey

  The Australian insurer spent a fair amount of time addressing people-related challenges in its move to cloud, which has improved its security posture and reduced infrastructure spending, among other outcomes

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  Pentera ups ante in penetration testing

  The Israeli startup, which expanded to the APAC region last year, scans for vulnerabilities and emulates cyber attacks through its automated security validation platform

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  APAC digital leaders score wins in innovation awards

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation

  The company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: Zuellig Pharma dispenses healthcare insights with data platform

  The regional pharmaceutical giant’s business intelligence-as-a-service offering is touted to plug data gaps and has helped one pharmaceutical client improve customer loyalty

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: SensorFlow reaps returns with re-architecture

  Smart building management specialist SensorFlow re-architected its entire platform to reduce cost, complexity and implement a real-time business intelligence dashboard for its customers

• May 12, 2023 12 May'23

  How Splunk is driving security automation

  Splunk’s head of security in APAC talks up the company’s efforts to ease the workloads of security analysts amid lower adoption of security automation and analytics in the region

• May 11, 2023 11 May'23

  Australia to shore up cyber and digital capabilities in Budget 2023

  Australia is spending more than A$2bn to strengthen cyber resilience, improve digital government services and fuel AI adoption, among other areas, in its latest budget

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  How datacentre operators can fend off cyber attacks

  Applying zero-trust principles in the form of strong authentication controls and network segmentation can help datacentre operators to mitigate cyber threats

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

  Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Inside BlackBerry’s cyber security playbook

  BlackBerry’s president of cyber security discusses the company’s cyber security strategy and what it is doing to deliver an integrated set of capabilities for enterprises

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  How organisations can succeed with zero trust

  By starting small, taking a long-term view and prioritising the most critical assets in their zero-trust implementations, organisations will be able to reap returns from their investments in the security paradigm

• April 17, 2023 17 Apr'23

  Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

  New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Australia’s media and telecoms sector saw most data breaches in 2022

  The media and telecoms industry accounted for the bulk of stolen credentials in Australia in 2022, underscoring the need to shore up the country’s cyber security posture

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  CIO interview: Carter Busse, CIO, Workato

  Workato CIO Carter Busse talks up the company’s approach towards automation and its efforts to drive the technology across its business

• March 31, 2023 31 Mar'23

  How Australian organisations can plug the cloud skills gap

  Organisations will need to acquire a broader set of skills and invest in reskilling and employee experience to attract and retain cloud talent

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  How organisations can weaponise data privacy

  Organisations should turn data privacy into a competitive advantage and look beyond regulatory compliance to build a privacy programme that aligns with business targets, says Gartner

• March 23, 2023 23 Mar'23

  Podium taps ChatGPT for reputation management

  The customer interaction and payment specialist with operations in Australia has integrated ChatGPT into its platform to help local businesses respond to customer reviews on social media

• March 21, 2023 21 Mar'23

  How Mimecast thinks differently about email security

  Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer believes the company’s comprehensive approach towards email security has enabled it to remain relevant to customers for two decades

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  Inside AIA’s cloud adoption journey

  The Hong Kong-based multinational insurance firm has moved 86% of its IT infrastructure to public cloud to drive growth, productivity and efficiency

• March 15, 2023 15 Mar'23

  How industry cloud platforms are shaping the future of business applications

  More than half of enterprises are expected to use industry cloud platforms that combine cloud-based infrastructure, platform and application services to accelerate their business by 2027

• March 13, 2023 13 Mar'23

  SolarWinds doubles down on APAC business

  SolarWinds teams up with key systems integrators in the APAC region to develop joint offerings as it bolsters its capabilities in observability and autonomous operations

• March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

  How ForgeRock is tackling identity management

  ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch has set the identity and access management software supplier on a path to deliver a frictionless identity experience without compromising security or privacy

• March 07, 2023 07 Mar'23

  APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending

  Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas