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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

• 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

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  How to get mainframe modernisation right

  Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

• March 05, 2023 05 Mar'23

  FlashBlade//E to open up new opportunities in Australia

  Pure Storage’s FlashBlade//E will enable the storage supplier to target medical imaging and remote backup workloads and attract new customers in Australia

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  Data breaches in Australia on the rise, says OAIC

  Cyber security incidents were the cause of most data breaches, which rose by 26% in the second half of 2022, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  APAC is proving to be ‘substantial growth engine’ for Rimini Street

  Rimini Street CEO Seth Ravin outlines growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific and discusses the company’s move up the support value chain

• February 27, 2023 27 Feb'23

  How Dell is future-proofing its business

  Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth

• February 24, 2023 24 Feb'23

  Teradata reports strong cloud earnings

  Teradata’s cloud-first strategy is starting to pay off, with the company reporting its strongest cloud earnings to date in the fourth quarter last year

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  ANZ CIOs flag priorities amid inflation concerns

  CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are concerned about inflation and plan to adjust their technology priorities to optimise resources and combat cyber threats

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  How APAC organisations can harness the power of IoT

  In a panel discussion moderated by Computer Weekly, industry experts from across Asia-Pacific discussed the use cases, challenges and future developments in the internet of things

• February 20, 2023 20 Feb'23

  How Syniti is honing its chops in data management

  A move to shed its back office image and a laser focus on data migration has been fuelling Syniti’s growth in data management

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  How to tame the identity sprawl

  Organisations should find a comprehensive way to gain full visibility into their digital identities and leverage automation to tame the identify sprawl

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Dell tells suppliers to diversify fab and backend facilities

  Dell calls for chip suppliers to diversify their fabrication and backend facilities by the end of 2024 to improve its supply chain resilience

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Akamai eyes cloud market with Connected Cloud

  Akamai marks foray into cloud computing with a distributed cloud computing platform that is touted to make it easier for enterprises to get applications and data closer to their customers

• February 09, 2023 09 Feb'23

  How Check Point is keeping pace with the cyber security landscape

  Check Point Software CEO Gil Shwed talks up the company’s growth areas, its approach to cloud security and the impact of generative AI on cyber security

• February 06, 2023 06 Feb'23

  How artificial intelligence is playing a role in insect farming

  An AI engine developed by Singapore startup EntoVerse is helping cricket farmers improve yield by optimising environmental and other conditions

• February 05, 2023 05 Feb'23

  Australian organisations underinvesting in cyber security

  Over half of Australian organisations failed to invest enough in cyber security over past three years, though awareness is improving in aftermath of high-profile data breaches

• February 02, 2023 02 Feb'23

  Symbio acquires Intrado Australia’s UCaaS business

  The all-cash A$5m deal will expand Symbio’s footprint in the UCaaS market and deepen its reach into enterprises and government entities

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  ATO renews major Macquarie deal

  The contract renewal will enable the Australian Tax Office to tap Macquarie’s security operations centre, among other services, to secure its IT environment and protect sensitive data

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  Zero-trust implementations remain work in progress

  Just one in 10 large enterprises are expected to have mature and measurable zero-trust programmes in place by 2026, study finds

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037

  Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  APAC consumers expect human-like service from chatbots

  Consumer expectations of chatbots in Asia-Pacific have risen in tandem with improved performance of AI applications over the past year, a study has found

• January 18, 2023 18 Jan'23

  How Aruba is tapping opportunities in networking

  Aruba is planning to expand its product portfolio, make deeper inroads into datacentres and drive adoption of network as a service, among other efforts to tap opportunities in the networking market

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  AWS opens first Australian Local Zone in Perth

  AWS’s first Local Zone in Australia will bring low-latency performance to companies such as Woodside Energy and Nearmaps

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  How to find winning artificial intelligence use cases

  Choosing use cases for artificial intelligence requires organisations to take a hard look at business value, risk, data and other capabilities required to realise the technology’s full potential

• January 09, 2023 09 Jan'23

  How to identify a strategic technology platform

  A strategic platform has to be broad enough to support a range of business functions while being open, extensible and modular at the same time, according to Forrester

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  How cloud technology is supporting space missions

  Cloud-based machine learning and other services are finding their way into space to analyse satellite imagery and monitor space debris, among other space applications

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  How technology is fuelling CommBank’s customer experience

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has built up capabilities in cloud and microservices while empowering engineering teams to solve complex customer problems

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2022

  We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the opportunities and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year

• December 19, 2022 19 Dec'22

  GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers

  Artificial intelligence will enable developers to learn at their own pace and become more productive rather than take over their jobs, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Crime Stoppers Tasmania debuts new reporting portal

  Reporting tool will enable the public to share crime-related information with law enforcement agencies to support policing in Tasmania

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2023

  Robotics, cross-cloud data mobility and cyber insurance are some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2023

• December 11, 2022 11 Dec'22

  How Zscaler is cracking APAC’s cloud security market

  Zscaler’s head in Asia-Pacific and Japan talks up the company’s growth momentum in the region and what it is doing to address areas where it can do better

• December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

  Australia to develop new cyber security strategy

  New strategy to be developed by top cyber security experts aims to turn Australia into a global cyber leader, among other goals

• December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

  How Databricks is easing lakehouse adoption

  Databricks is making it easier for organisations to adopt a data lakehouse architecture through support for industry-specific file formats, data sharing and streaming processing, among other areas

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management

  HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Communications runs in his blood

  Symbio Connect CEO Giorgio Mihaila has spent more than two decades in a career dotted with roles at major communications technology providers

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  AWS doubles down on data management

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services declares a bold vision to eliminate the need to extract, transform and load data alongside other efforts to address business problems in domains like cyber security and logistics

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  How MongoDB is driving growth in ANZ

  MongoDB, which counts the likes of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as clients, has been driving skills development and investing in local manpower in Australia and New Zealand

• November 26, 2022 26 Nov'22

  Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023

  Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for the annual Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have transformed organisations in six industries

• November 25, 2022 25 Nov'22

  Getting data analytics right

  Organisations will need to marry the art and science of data analytics to drive innovation in their analytics initiatives, according to Gartner

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Informatica CEO: ‘We’re the Switzerland of data’

  Informatica CEO Amit Walia talks up the company’s role as the ‘Switzerland of data’, helping organisations to manage data across different platforms as it transitions into a cloud-first supplier of data management tools

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Applying blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB in green energy trading

  Energy trading platform Powerledger has leveraged the power of blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB to make its mark in renewable energy trading in Australia

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  How Google and Mandiant are forging synergies in cyber security

  Google’s AI smarts and Mandiant’s intelligence on new and emerging threats could lay the foundation of proactive security

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Optus earmarks A$140m to cover cost of data breach

  Optus sets aside A$140m as an exceptional expense for a customer remediation programme following a massive data breach that affected 10 million customers

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Why Sophos is bullish on managed security services

  Sophos has grown its managed detection and response business to more than $100m over the last three years as more organisations grapple with the increasingly complex cyber security landscape

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  How organisations can right-size their data footprint

  More data is not always better, says Gartner, which is calling for organisations to focus on metadata and synthetic data to reduce their data liability and address privacy challenges

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Aiven expands in APAC, builds new capabilities

  Managed service provider of open source databases and data platforms Aiven grew its business in Asia-Pacific by over 100% over the past year, and is now building new capabilities in data warehouses and other areas

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Why technology change is slow at larger firms

  Firms that commit to a single cloud provider and a lack of investment in improving developer productivity can drive up costs and slow down the pace of change, technology leaders say

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search

  Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search