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Information technology (IT) in Australia & New Zealand

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Trellix looks to democratise access to XDR in APAC

  The company formed from the merger of FireEye Enterprise and McAfee will team up with managed service providers, among other efforts, to democratise access to extended detection and response capabilities in the region

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Top three questions about the Log4j vulnerability

  Singapore’s Ensign Infosecurity answers the top three questions about the impact of the Log4j vulnerability

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  Macquarie joins NSW government’s cloud supplier panel

  New South Wales state agencies will be able to access Macquarie’s sovereign cyber expertise and secure cloud, network and datacentre services

• January 05, 2022 05 Jan'22

  Melbourne’s InnerVision ups ante in smart parking

  InnerVision Engineering’s smart parking solution uses machine vision and other technologies to deliver a frictionless parking experience for drivers in Australia

• January 03, 2022 03 Jan'22

  How APAC firms can stay ahead of cyber threats

  Organisations will need to develop behavioural detection, machine learning and threat hunting capabilities to keep pace with the onslaught of cyber attacks

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  How to scale up your AI initiatives

  Executive sponsorship, a strong data foundation and having ‘analytics artists’ are among ways to scale up AI initiatives beyond the pilot stage

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2022

  Operationalising zero trust, talent retention and containerisation are just some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2022

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face espionage and hacking charges, court rules

  High Court overturns decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder after US government gives assurances over his treatment

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  NEXTDC opens edge datacentre on the Sunshine Coast

  NEXTDC’s SC1 facility is the first in a series of edge datacentre sites that will provide low-latency services to regional businesses and global linkages

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  APAC banks gear up on cloud, but challenges remain

  Public cloud spending by financial institutions in the region is rising even as they grapple with legacy IT challenges and cost concerns

• December 05, 2021 05 Dec'21

  Australia’s NSW to build A$40m digital twin

  The spatial digital twin brings together government data sources to provide insights for urban planners and residents to support decision-making and see into the future

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  ICO warns facial recognition company Clearview AI it could face £17m fine over privacy breaches

  The UK’s information commissioner has issued a preliminary decision to fine Clearview over £17m for breaching UK data protection law and invited the company to make representations

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Inside Informatica’s cloud journey

  Informatica’s chief product officer talks up the company’s journey back to the public market and where Asia-Pacific fits in its growth strategy

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Medtronic ups ante in digital health

  Medtronic wants a slice of the burgeoning digital health market and is teaming up with startups and other organisations in Asia-Pacific’s healthcare ecosystem to raise its game

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: APAC enterprises invest in digital future

  Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in Asia-Pacific plan to increase their IT budgets next year in areas such as cloud computing and cyber security to secure their digital future

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  Splunk’s cloud shift is paying off in APAC

  Splunk’s Asia-Pacific business is growing faster than the rest of the company, but it’s not resting on its laurels

• November 03, 2021 03 Nov'21

  Adelaide healthcare network digitises manual processes

  The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has digitised manual processes in more than 20 speciality areas to improve patient experience and alleviate the workloads of frontline staff

• October 29, 2021 29 Oct'21

  How GitHub is driving secure software development

  GitHub’s first chief security officer offers a glimpse into the company’s efforts to help developers and organisations embrace secure software development practices

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  AWS to open cloud region in New Zealand

  Cloud giant will invest NZ$7.5bn in New Zealand over the next 15 years through the new Auckland cloud region

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Lacework expands into ANZ, eyes APAC market

  DevSecOps supplier Lacework’s expansion into Australia and New Zealand will pave the way for a broader move into the Asia-Pacific region

• October 24, 2021 24 Oct'21

  The future of data analytics

  The rise of no-code and event-driven architectures are among the developments that will shape the future of data analytics, according to Tibco’s regional chief technology officer

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  APAC organisations warm to zero trust

  Two-thirds of APAC organisations have a zero-trust strategy even as they grapple with the lack of skills and other organisational challenges, study finds

• October 19, 2021 19 Oct'21

  VMware refines cross-cloud strategy

  VMware’s CTO Kit Colbert talks up the evolution of the company’s cross-cloud strategy and how it stands out from other suppliers eyeing the multicloud pie

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  HPE’s GreenLake strategy pays off in APAC

  HPE’s transition to an as-a-service company is paying off in Asia-Pacific where it witnessed one of the strongest quarters, thanks in part to rising demand for services

• October 08, 2021 08 Oct'21

  How Zoom is growing its APAC business

  Zoom is driving its growth in Asia-Pacific by embedding business processes into video communications, supporting the hybrid workplace and expanding its headcount in the region

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  Australian organisations lack maturity in responsible AI

  Most Australian organisations are still in the early stages of their responsible artificial intelligence efforts despite growing use of AI by businesses and consumers, study finds

• September 29, 2021 29 Sep'21

  AWS launches programme to advance health equity

  The $40m global health equity programme will fund projects that improve health outcomes for underserved communities

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  APAC IT spending to grow by 9.3% in 2021

  Organisations across the region will spend more on technologies such as AI and IoT this year, as part of their long-term investment plans to improve operational efficiency and customer service

• September 26, 2021 26 Sep'21

  What it takes to attract and retain women in cyber security

  The narrowing gender gap may be a cause for cheer, but more needs to be done to curb discrimination, and attract and retain women for cyber security roles in Asia-Pacific

• September 24, 2021 24 Sep'21

  How Australia punches above its weight in cyber security

  Australia is playing to its strengths in niche areas such as governance and deep tech to punch above its weight in the cyber security industry

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Stax to expand in New Zealand, Southeast Asia

  Australia’s homegrown cloud management platform is setting its sights on neighbouring markets amid growing cloud adoption across the region

• September 16, 2021 16 Sep'21

  NTT and Equinix lead APAC co-location market

  The two datacentre service providers are leading the pack in co-location services in the Asia-Pacific region thanks to their growing business from hyperscale cloud suppliers

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Australia and Singapore have higher incidences of insecure databases

  Five-year longitudinal study by Imperva shows the proportion of databases with at least one known vulnerability in Australia and Singapore are among the world’s highest

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  RPA adoption still in its infancy in Asia-Pacific

  While there have been successful deployments of robotic process automation in mature markets, adoption of the technology is largely in its infancy across Asia-Pacific, says a regional Blue Prism executive

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  APAC organisations must do more to harness analytics potential

  Organisations in the Asia-Pacific region still lack the necessary workforce and process capabilities that are required to realise the full benefits of data analytics initiatives, a study finds

• September 07, 2021 07 Sep'21

  OT security in APAC remains work in progress

  Two operational technology security experts shed light on the state of OT security in the region, and what’s being done to address skills, competency and organisational challenges

• September 06, 2021 06 Sep'21

  How NZ schools are tapping managed network services

  Using managed network services has freed up time and resources for New Zealand school teachers and alleviated the pressure and challenges of maintaining technology infrastructure

• August 24, 2021 24 Aug'21

  How Zendesk is gearing up for growth in APAC

  Zendesk has its eye on Japan and the enterprise segment while building up its partner ecosystem to grow its business in the Asia-Pacific region

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  Alibaba tops global AI challenge

  Alibaba’s AliceMind algorithm recorded a higher accuracy rate than humans in answering questions related to images in the global VQA challenge

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  How Australia’s Octopus Deploy is simplifying DevOps

  Brisbane-based startup Octopus Deploy recently secured $172.5m in venture funding to advance its goal of simplifying software deployments for DevOps teams

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  NAB partners AWS, global banks on open finance

  Australia’s NAB teams up with three other banks and AWS to run an open global finance challenge that will see participating teams prototype new digital banking services

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  How swarm learning is tearing down data silos

  Swarm learning makes it possible to perform machine learning on distributed data sources while conforming to data confidentiality requirements

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  How to get API deployments right

  Application programming interfaces are not the panacea for digital transformation and could even lead to escalating costs for problems that are better addressed through integration

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  New machine learning algorithm to detect quantum errors

  University of Sydney and quantum control startup Q-CTRL have developed a new way to reduce quantum computing errors using custom machine learning algorithms

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Unit4 doubles down on APAC business

  Supplier of mid-market ERP systems Unit4 is investing in a research and development centre in Jakarta as part of efforts to win market share from established players

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Fred IT replaces paper prescriptions with QR codes

  Fred IT’s eRX Script Exchange is now used by 21,000 doctors and 95% of Australian pharmacies, delivering more than 11 million digital prescriptions by July 2021

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Panasas’s 10x saving bumps NetApp from HPC storage deployment

  University of Wollongong got 1.2PB for the cost of 100TB for HPC storage in its cryo-imaging institute. Scale-out NAS maker Panasas also brought life sciences expertise to bear

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Technical debt is holding back innovation

  Technical debt is limiting seven in 10 companies in their capacity to innovate, according to a global study

• July 29, 2021 29 Jul'21

  Olympic Broadcasting Services taps cloud for content delivery

  Live footages of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are being supplied to broadcasters through the public cloud for the first time