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January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20
AWS finds growth in Australia amid maturing cloud market

Edge computing, the internet of things and contact centre services are some of the key growth areas for Amazon Web Services in Australia
January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20
Cloud adoption in ANZ gathering pace

Australia and New Zealand have seen a four-fold increase in the amount of data moving from on-premise environments to the top public clouds, survey finds
January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20
Scale’s HE150 the first of a big push to small edge HCI hardware

Scale Computing aims to scale to micro-sized hyper-converged with a lightweight operating system it claims its competitors can’t match for edge and remote location deployments
January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20
A decade in datacentres: how the rise of cloud has hit enterprise hardware and software spending

The first of a series of reports by Synergy Research Group into how enterprise IT spending habits have changed over the course of the past decade reveal datacentre hardware and software investment "stagnation"

January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20
Why enterprises should care about DevOps

Besides supporting cloud-native software development, DevOps’ biggest gains lie in legacy systems, says Puppet’s field CTO
December 31, 2019 31 Dec'19
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2019
December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19
Top 10 cloud stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 cloud stories of 2019
December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19
Top 10 datacentre stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2019
December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19
Home Office details seven-point plan to cutting its Immigration Technology team's cloud costs by 40%

The Home Office has revealed how its Immigration Technology team cut cloud costs through spot and reserved instances, scheduling, auto-scaling and encouraging developers to spring clean test environments
December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19
Top 10 storage stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories for 2019, with the latest trends in enterprise storage arrays, hyper-converged, object storage, scale-out NAS, and more

December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19
Google declares report on alleged public cloud exit discussions ‘inaccurate’

A US media report claiming senior management teams at Google and its parent company Alphabet discussed exiting the public cloud market in 2018 has been described as “not accurate” by the firm
December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19
Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2019
December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19
AWS hits back at open source theft allegations

New York Times accuses the public cloud provider of taking open source products and integrating them into its own managed services
December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19
Ramp-up in hyperscalers’ datacentre spend in Q3 puts 2019 on course to become record-breaking year

Latest datacentre investment data from Synergy Research Group reveals a resurgence in hyperscale investment in the third quarter
December 15, 2019 15 Dec'19
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2020

The rise of super apps, Wi-Fi 6 enabled services and cross-functional platform engineering teams are likely to dominate the Asia-Pacific IT landscape in 2020
December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19
Why Lendlease is embracing digital twin technology

Australia-based property developer Lendlease is using digital twins and other technologies to break the bulwark of rising costs and declining productivity in the construction sector
December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19
Stanford University finds that AI is outpacing Moore’s Law

Every three months, the speed of artificial intelligence computation doubles, according to Stanford University’s 2019 AI Index report
December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19
NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem

Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase
December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19
AWS CEO Andy Jassy blames 'significant political interference' for Amazon losing $10bn JEDI deal

AWS CEO Andy Jassy claims White House meddling led to it losing out to Microsoft on the US Department of Defense JEDI contract, despite its cloud platform being demonstrably superior
December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19
RMIT to tackle cyber security challenges

Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to launch a Cloud Innovation Centre to solve cyber security challenges
December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19
AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources
December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19
AWS Outposts debuts in Australia

Amazon Web Services rolls out Outposts in Australia, enabling enterprises to run a consistent version of the AWS platform at locations that require low latency
December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19
AWS CEO Andy Jassy slams Microsoft over cloud-focused Windows Server licensing tweaks

AWS CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at Re:Invent 2019 and slammed Microsoft for attempting to pull Windows Server customers back on to its cloud through its recent licensing tweaks
December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19
AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia

AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint
December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19
How AWS is growing its ASEAN footprint

Building ‘strong autonomous country teams’ has been a key focus for AWS in Southeast Asia where demand for cloud computing services is on the rise
December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19
HPE takes aim at hybrid IT management as a service

Starting with its GreenLake family, HPE is building out a hybrid platform from the edge to the cloud
December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19
AWS VP of engineering on the cloud giant's first major quantum computing push

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has used the first day of its annual Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to set out its plans to democratise quantum computing, while also firming up the enterprise use cases for the technology
November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19
Record-breaking colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed space availability concerns

Latest market data from real estate company CBRE suggests the final three months of 2019 could turn the year into another record-breaker for the European colocation market
November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19
Australia’s Fenner Dunlop ditches tape backups for cloud

Australian manufacturer of conveyor belts Fenner Dunlop has freed up its IT staff to focus on future projects by moving tape backups to the cloud
November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19
Enterprises muddled over cloud security responsibilities

A McAfee study suggests that 2020 will be a big year for cloud adoption, but confusion still persists over who is responsible for securing it
November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19
VMware doubles up on Kubernetes play

New Tanzu portfolio reflects efforts by VMware to better meet the needs of enterprises that are warming to containers and Kubernetes when building new cloud-native applications
November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19
Unisys nears completion of SaaS-based upgrade of Holmes2 police IT system

Global IT provider Unisys says the last of the 43 police forces in England and Wales that need to upgrade to the cloud-based version of its Holmes2 shared investigations system will complete in early 2020
November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19
HPE says there will be no further cost cuts as it posts lower Q4 2019 revenue

Antonio Neri is in his second year as HPE CEO and is overseeing a three-year programme to improve efficiencies and reduce costs
November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19
Mystery surrounds leak of four billion user records

Threat researchers uncover four billion user records on a wide-open Elasticsearch server but who left them there is a mystery
November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19
England manager Gareth Southgate tells how data analytics and cloud have helped the FA modernise

England football manager tells Google Cloud Next UK conference how the FA is using big data and cloud collaboration tools to change the organisation's culture and improve players’ performances on the pitch
November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19
Druva eyes data protection for IoT workloads

Cloud data protection software supplier Druva is looking at a comprehensive platform that will protect data generated by IoT workloads
November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19
Fashion retailer AllSaints on using Google Cloud to handle online shopping traffic peaks

AllSaints shifts website workloads into Google Cloud to protect against website downtime, as well as embarking on microservices-led push to modernise its infrastructure
November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19
How Nicigas is disrupting Japan’s gas market with IoT

Japanese energy retailer Nicigas is deploying 850,000 IoT devices to convert traditional gas meters into smart meters to unlock consumption data amid efforts to shake up the utilities industry
November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19
John Lewis Partnership taps Google Cloud for AI expertise to bolster customer experience

The John Lewis Partnership is building on its earlier forays into the Google Cloud by tapping into its artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise to deliver on its omnichannel business ambitions
November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19
Carbon Black to open Australia datacentre in 2020

Australia datacentre comes on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of Carbon Black and will serve organisations with data sovereignty requirements
November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19
Businesses still struggling to reap benefits of cloud, study shows

Research by global IT firm Unisys shines a light on reasons why some firms are still struggling to reap the benefits of using cloud
November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19
APAC has one of highest variations in cloud performance

The network performance of public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region has greater variability than elsewhere, new study finds
November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19
Microsoft increases data protection for enterprises following Dutch MoJ audit

Last year’s audit by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security got the attention of the European Data Protection Supervisor. Now Microsoft has reacted
November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19
How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack
November 17, 2019 17 Nov'19
Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems
November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19
Businesses move key applications off public cloud to save costs

A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate
November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19
How Slack is going beyond messaging in enterprise play

Deeper integrations with business applications and data residency support are part of Slack’s broader strategy to penetrate deeper into the enterprise
November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19
Docker restructure sees enterprise platform business sold to open source cloud firm Mirantis

Docker, the company credited with popularising the notion of container technologies, sells off its enterprise arm as part of a wider business restructure
November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19
Bet365 backs DevOps to improve site reliability

The online betting site is setting up a DevOps team to improve website reliability and ensure applications are deployed quickly
November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19
Shared responsibility model key to solving 5G security problem

Both buyers and sellers need to cooperate to solve the thorny issues around 5G security