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New director of security solutions for Fortinet Australia

“Mare's experience in cloud security, data and emerging technologies plays well into our future plans as a business."More

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Microsoft & OpenAI forge path into AI supercomputing

"Our ambition is to democratise AI — while always keeping AI safety front and centre — so everyone can benefit.”More

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Improving customer experience in insurance intelligently – Hyland

Success or failure in the sector is determined more and more by an organisation’s ability to respond to customer demand quickly and accurately.More

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Gartner names Automation Anywhere Leader in RPA

The 2019 Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation Software is Gartner’s first evaluation of vendors in the rapidly-growing robotic process automation (RPA) market. More

Looking to land your dream job? Build your soft skills, says Hays

Using UEBA to fight user-based threats internally

Druva acquires hybrid cloud data protection firm

How to collect, filter, and normalise logs in complex environments

Case study: How Central Innovation prototyped the Nura headphones with SOLIDWORKS

Why holding back from cloud adoption is holding your business up

Whitepaper: Making system logging work the way it’s supposed to

Log messages will be critical to detecting security incidents, operational problems, policy violations, and are useful in auditing and forensics situations.More

Micro Focus launches new robotic process automation product

Designed for the enterprise, the scalable and resilient solution is first to deliver UI and API-based RPA.More

Data, data everywhere - how to use the most valuable bits

Ideally, all data and its value should be driving all product creation and business opportunities. But that requires quality data and the means to monetise it, as well as the data strategy to execute it.More

IT & OT convergence brings new cyber risks to industrial sector

IT and operational technology (OT) are on a journey to convergence, but that convergence must be managed with caution in order to manage cybersecurity risks that go with it. More

Queensland taps iseek for DCaaS on ICT panel

iseek’s growing number of Australia-based data centres has won it an appointment to the Queensland Government’s ICT supplier panel.More

The small business cybersecurity survival guide

ESET understands the cyber threats your small business will face - get tips and tricks from those on the cybersecurity frontline.More

TIBCO secures top spot in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Master data management is not just an organisation's second thought - it's now indispensable.More

Federal Government inks cloud deal with Microsoft

The deal accelerates transformation opportunity, invests in public sector skills, drives inclusion and leverages local investment.More

Microsoft releases progammes and tech for partners

“Our portfolio of programmes, offers and resources for companies partnering with Microsoft is transforming to help them capitalise on the opportunity of the cloud era.”More

Report: Using UEBA to increase security analytics effectiveness

To facilitate more effective cybersecurity, businesses need to accommodate larger data sets with more advanced analysis of the data.More

Huawei Australia seeks next intake for Seeds for the Future program

The program provides an opportunity for Australian university students studying STEM-related subjects to spend a month in China on a work and study program.More

Western Digital updates flash data centre systems portfolio

IntelliFlash family additions and OS 3.10 enhancements deliver industry’s highest performing NVMe all-flash arrays.More

The future of cybercrime in Australia – ESET

Cyber-attacks will continue so long as the target seems worthwhile and the attackers have funding to continue their work. More

QNAP launches beta of new version of NAS OS

QTS 4.4.1 beta 3 includes VJBOD Cloud for integrated cloud object storage and CacheMount for low-latency cloud data access.More

8x8 opens A/NZ support centre, expands through acquisition

8x8 has APAC in its sights as it opens a Sydney support centre for A/NZ and acquires a Singaporean Comms-Platform-aaS provider.More

Trend Micro adds Deep Security as a Service to Azure Marketplace

Trend Micro Deep Security delivers a multi-layered automated approach to protect hybrid cloud workloads and container environments.More

How to navigate the innovation versus security dilemma

Australian organisations place the highest importance on improving employee productivity and enhancing business resilience.More

VMware to acquire Bitfusion

Bitfusion is a pioneer in virtualisation of accelerated compute with a strong focus on GPU technology.More

Whitepaper: An all-in-one guide on cloud migration planning

Technology-driven business disruption is a very real phenomenon.More

Businesses feel they need AI to respond to cyber-threats - Capgemini

Two in three organisations plan to deploy artificial intelligence to bolster their defense as soon as 2020.More

Overcoming security gaps with people, process, and technology

One of the largest inhibitors to cloud adoption is concern around the security of leveraging a service provider in a multi-cloud world.More

Frost & Sullivan: How SIEM is either an enabler or a retardant

Addressing a constant flow of security alerts is an inevitable consequence of the digital age.More

How to analyse data with SIEM to manage threats efficiently

Cybersecurity training institution SANS puts LogRhythm 7.2 Threat Lifecycle Management Platform to the test.More

Application modernisation for the digital enterprise

The digital enterprise couldn’t exist without modern applications – otherwise it would be nothing more than a stale system that’s slow to react to the rapidly-changing conditions in today’s business environment.More

IBM digital marketing division named Acquia Select Partner

IBM iX can access cloud and open-source digital experience tools to help customers update their businesses and improve customer experiences. More

10 ways to benefit from the emerging ‘data nation’ - Snowflake

Data is opening up new opportunities for revenue generation that can significantly boost the corporate bottom line.More

Blue Prism to deliver automation solutions through Azure

The collaboration will integrate Blue Prism’s automation capabilities with Azure AI technologies including Cognitive Services and Machine Learning.More

Tesla's suit against ex-employee a strong case for IP security

“There was no need for this employee to be using their own iCloud for data storage even if the original intent was non-malicious."More

You’re invited: The Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney

This is the definitive Australian Digital Workplace Conference of the year. 30 speakers. 40 sessions. 400 attendees. 15 exhibitors. Save the dates: August 6-7, at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth Hotel. Don’t miss out! Tickets on sale now.More

RPA services market to balloon up 47% by 2024, says Zinnov

The outsourced RPA services market for FY19 is estimated to be at US$570M - $600M.More

Microsoft empowers Melbourne Business School to 'move and improve'

Melbourne Business School is harnessing the power of Microsoft’s three clouds to transform its business into a cloud first enterprise.More

Mistrust amongst organisations when it comes to data, survey finds

"The different levels of confidence displayed by people at a management level and operational data workers are not surprising, but it is definitely worrying." More

Zebra wins fifth consecutive Red Dot design award

The ZC100/300 series card printer has been recognised for its user-centred design approach in the Product Design category. More

Report: Why vulnerability assessment is the first step in security strategy

Tenable’s latest research examines real-world vulnerability assessment practices at 2,100 organisations to see how they’re approaching cyber hygiene.More

Supermicro launch solutions for security and AI at the edge

New edge servers bring up to 37 LAN port software-defined networking solutions and AI inferencing to the network edge.More

Insider threats & breach reports: Why security needs more investment

Insider threats (those that come from within your organisation) are a serious concern - here's why.More

WA’s John XXIII College chooses Veeam for backup and DR

On top of learning tools, administrative support, payroll, finance and alumni services are some of the services that also must be constant and stable.More

AI projects set to double, with CX the key driver behind growth

“The rising number of AI projects means that organisations may need to reorganise internally to make sure that AI projects are properly staffed and funded."More

Check Point releases report on public cloud security challenges

Unauthorised access, insecure interfaces, misconfigurations and account hijacking named as the biggest vulnerabilities in the public cloud.More

SAP Concur: Manual expense management holding back SMBs

“Fundamentally, automated expense management systems help SMBs target areas they’re likely to lose money on."More

Retailers struggling to maximise benefits of AI

"AI and guided selling tech are very much the future as far as revolutionising the customer experience is concerned, but if a retailer’s foundations are built on a bedrock of flimsy, unreliable and unstructured data, AI won’t be able to flourish in the way it’s supposed to.”More

Huawei: Aus should follow UK’s “more intelligent” approach to 5G tech

Huawei Australia has released a statement pointing out a UK cross-party committee’s findings that there is no need to ban Huawei’s 5G technologies.More

Whitepaper: Fighting advanced persistent threats in a new security paradigm

There is no doubt that a move to hybrid cloud is a massive mission but one that - if successful - promises a better world.More

Valuing your shift into Agile – Certus3

As Agile has taken on a more organisation-wide focus, it has also become more closely aligned with the overall objectives of the organisation.More

Google buys enterprise cloud file storage firm Elastifile

The acquisition will bring Elastifile’s cloud file storage for enterprises into Google Cloud Filestore.More