https://itbrief.com.au/story/australia-new-zealand-consultation-trust-gap-widens IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T18:35:00+12:00 Australia & New Zealand consultation trust gap widens New Zealand (NZ), Data Analytics, Planning, Risk & Compliance, IT Infrastructure, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Knowledge Management, Digital Infrastructure, Urban Planning, Australasia, Automation, Machine learning (ML), eGovernment, GovTech, Translation, Accessibility, Local government 2026-07-22T18:45:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/macquarie-launches-azure-cloud-practice-for-government IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T15:00:00+12:00 Macquarie launches Azure cloud practice for government Small Business (SMB), Outsourcing, Managed Services, Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), Digital Transformation, Public Cloud, Skills shortage, Microsoft Azure, Data sovereignty, Zero Trust Security, Cloud, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, AI Models, Macquarie Cloud Services, Public Sector, Cloud Services, Federal Government, Security Services, AI Adoption, Digital Infrastructure, Data governance, Australian Government, Workplace automation, Canberra, Cloud migration, Microsoft Fabric, Data Localisation, Private Cloud, Smartsheet, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Spend management, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Security 2026-07-22T15:00:07+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/google-boosts-alloydb-vector-search-with-hnsw-preview IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T15:00:00+12:00 Google boosts AlloyDB vector search with HNSW preview Data Analytics, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Google Cloud, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Postgres, Google, Benchmarking, Machine learning (ML), Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), Low latency, PostgreSQL, Vector Database, Vector Search 2026-07-22T15:00:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/check-point-cto-on-ai-s-double-edged-sword IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T14:56:00+12:00 Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword Chief Technology Officers (CTO), TechDay, Digital Transformation, Threat intelligence, Skills shortage, Patching, Security Operations Centres (SOCs), AI Security, System on a chip (SOC), Check Point Software, Large Language Models (LLMs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hybrid & Remote Work, AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, Software Development, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Threat actors, Network Security, Machine learning (ML), Incident Response, Data exfiltration, Enterprise security, Malware, Infosec, Cyber espionage, Ransomware, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Security, Dark web, AI Safety, Editor interview 2026-07-22T15:00:07+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/celonis-named-everest-leader-in-process-mining-again IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T14:24:00+12:00 Celonis named Everest Leader in process mining again Productivity, Digital Transformation, Integration, Gartner Magic Quadrant, Germany, Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Market Growth, AI Ethics & Governance, Partnerships, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Data infrastructure, Celonis, Customer service, Data governance, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Procurement, Decision Intelligence, Everest Group, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Process automation, BPM, Amazon S3, PEAK Matrix assessment, Analyst report 2026-07-22T14:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/google-details-iam-conditions-to-tighten-cloud-access IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T13:59:00+12:00 Google details IAM conditions to tighten cloud access Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Zero Trust Security, Cloud, Cybersecurity, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Google Cloud, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI platform, Access Control, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloud Security 2026-07-22T14:00:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/rebecca-mcdonald-appointed-to-head-pearcey-queensland IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T13:46:00+12:00 Rebecca McDonald appointed to head Pearcey Queensland IT Industry, TechEd, Not for profit (NFP), ICT sector, Australian, Women in Technology, Startup ecosystem, EdTech, Social enterprise, Pearcey Foundation, Charity, Information and Communication Technology, Queensland, Job moves 2026-07-22T14:00:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/github-sponsors-tops-usd-100-million-for-open-source IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T11:57:00+12:00 GitHub Sponsors tops USD $100 million for open source IT Department, Supply Chain, Europe (European), IT Infrastructure, Cloud, Payment Technologies, Supply Chain Security, Digital Infrastructure, Mercedes-Benz, Shopify, GitHub, Open source 2026-07-22T12:00:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/getac-says-ground-control-stations-must-evolve-for-isr IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T11:30:00+12:00 Getac says ground control stations must evolve for ISR Data Analytics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Real time data, Systems integration, Drones, Data Driven, Edge Computing, Interoperability, Getac 2026-07-22T11:45:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/scx-ai-launches-aud-40m-asx-float-for-ai-infrastructure IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-22T10:52:00+12:00 SCX.ai launches AUD $40m ASX float for AI infrastructure IT Industry, Energy efficient, Equinix, Data centers (DC), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Regulatory technology, Application infrastructure, Data sovereignty, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Data Privacy, Financial Services, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Market Growth, Cybersecurity, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Managing Director, AI Infrastructure, National Security, Sydney, Data residency, New South Wales (NSW), Public Sector, Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), AI Adoption, Digital Infrastructure, Institutional investors, Green IT, Data governance, Thermal Management, Colocation, Capex, Information Governance, Capital Markets, Stock Market, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Capital raising, Board of Directors, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Digital Sovereignty, Data Protection, Risk Management, Critical Infrastructure, GovTech, ASX, Hybrid Cloud, High Performance Computing (HPC), Fundraising 2026-07-22T11:00:13+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/fm-warns-of-rising-risks-to-power-generation-assets IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-21T18:55:00+12:00 FM warns of rising risks to power generation assets New Zealand (NZ), Data centers (DC), Supply Chain, Cloud, Asset Management, Australian, AI Infrastructure, National Security, Electrification, Predictive analytics, Risk Management, Critical Infrastructure, AI Data, FM Global 2026-07-21T19:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/canberra-data-centre-growth-hit-by-land-power-limits IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-21T13:37:00+12:00 Canberra data centre growth hit by land & power limits Data Centre Cooling, Data centers (DC), Data sovereignty, Cloud, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Telcos, National Security, Melbourne, Sydney, Regulation, Intelligence, Public Sector, Federal Government, Digital Infrastructure, Liquid cooling, Data Storage, Digital Economy, Canberra, Defense, Resilience, Renewable energy, Critical Infrastructure, Defence, High Performance Computing (HPC) 2026-07-21T13:45:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/google-adds-failover-for-multi-region-cloud-run-services IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-21T13:15:00+12:00 Google adds failover for multi-region Cloud Run services Disaster Recovery (DR), IT Department, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Application infrastructure, Serverless architecture, Data sovereignty, Cloud Native, Cloud, Google Cloud, Data residency, Downtime, Spanner, Microservices, Cloud Storage, DevOps, High availability, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Monitoring, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Failover, Business Continuity, Load balancing, Observability 2026-07-21T13:15:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/nutanix-to-show-amd-powered-enterprise-ai-infrastructure IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-21T13:01:00+12:00 Nutanix to show AMD-powered enterprise AI infrastructure Digital Transformation, Data centers (DC), Application infrastructure, Data sovereignty, IT Infrastructure, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, AI Agents (Agentic AI), AI Infrastructure, AIOps, AI Models, Generative AI (GenAI), Access Control, Data Localisation, AMD, Multi-cloud, Nutanix, Enterprise security, Security, Hybrid Cloud 2026-07-21T13:15:07+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/clickhouse-open-house-to-feature-anz-tech-industry-leaders IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-21T11:30:00+12:00 ClickHouse Open House to feature ANZ tech industry leaders IT Industry, Data Analytics, Financial Systems, Real time data, Cloud Native, Large Language Models (LLMs), Australian, Software Development, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Melbourne, Sydney, Xero, AIOps, Nine, Data infrastructure, AI observability, OpenTelemetry, Data Warehousing, Big Data, Software testing, Canva, Software engineering, Data Platform, Neara, Observability, Data Lake, ClickHouse 2026-07-21T11:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/agent-island-1-7-1-improves-local-claude-code-monitoring IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-21T10:30:00+12:00 Agent Island 1.7.1 improves local Claude Code monitoring Windows, Data Privacy, Software Development, Developer tools, AI Coding, User Interface, Cobalt, Digital Experience (DX), User experience (UX), Software engineering, macOS, GitHub, Open source, Observability 2026-07-21T10:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/meet-the-man-behind-the-saas-pocalypse-emergent-s-mukund-jha IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-20T16:40:00+12:00 Meet the man behind the Saas-Pocalypse: Emergent's Mukund Jha Small Business (SMB), Digital Transformation, App development, Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Low code & No code (LCNC), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Cloud, AI Ethics & Governance, Software Development, Developers (Devs), AI Coding, Venture Capital, Custom software, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), Generative AI (GenAI), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Software testing, Process automation, Software engineering, Workflow Automation, Editor interview 2026-07-21T07:45:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/google-cloud-issues-guide-to-cut-ai-coding-token-use IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-20T11:00:00+12:00 Google Cloud issues guide to cut AI coding token use Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, AI Ethics & Governance, Software Development, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Developer tools, AI Coding, Google Cloud, AI Adoption, DevOps, Google, Test Automation, Software engineering, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Workflow Automation, Prompt Engineering 2026-07-20T11:00:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/kcd-melbourne-2026-unveils-kubernetes-speaker-line-up IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-20T10:42:00+12:00 KCD Melbourne 2026 unveils Kubernetes speaker line-up Disaster Recovery (DR), Digital Transformation, IT Department, Cloud Native, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Software Development, AI Infrastructure, Melbourne, Cisco, IT Governance, Red Hat, Microservices, Kubernetes, DevOps, Machine learning (ML), Veeam, PostgreSQL, Nutanix, Monitoring, Data Protection, Portworx, Security, Open source, Observability, Cloud Native Computing Foundation 2026-07-20T10:45:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/resilience-over-prevention-as-ai-reshapes-security-landscape IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-17T15:25:00+12:00 Resilience over prevention as AI reshapes security landscape New Zealand (NZ), Disaster Recovery (DR), Digital Transformation, Threat intelligence, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Security Operations Centres (SOCs), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Zero Trust Security, Data Privacy, Australia & New Zealand, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, Secure by Design, Threat Landscape, Data governance, DSPM, Generative AI (GenAI), Data Security, Identity Security, Incident Response, Shadow IT, Cyber resilience, Data classification, Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), APAC, Enterprise security, Data Protection, Asia Pacific, Risk Management, Infosec, Cohesity, Ransomware, Business Continuity, AI Safety, Editor interview 2026-07-17T17:45:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/google-tests-ai-agents-on-short-film-making-project IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-17T14:30:00+12:00 Google tests AI agents on short film-making project Research and Development (R&D), Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Google Gemini, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Multi-Agent, Film production, Alphabet, Generative AI (GenAI), Digital Media, Google, Machine learning (ML), Animation, Storytelling, Workflow Automation, Prompt Engineering, Open source, Containerisation, AI Safety 2026-07-17T14:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/fujitsu-joins-fanuc-yaskawa-kawasaki-on-physical-ai IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-17T14:29:00+12:00 Fujitsu joins FANUC, Yaskawa & Kawasaki on physical AI Robotics (Robots), Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, Data sovereignty, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cybersecurity, Physical AI, Industrial Automation, Industrial Revolution, Open Standards, Oceania, Automation, Health and safety, Digital Experience (DX), Smart factory, Fujitsu, Digital twins, Digital Sovereignty, Data Protection, Japan, Interoperability, NVIDIA, Python, Productivity, Sustainability, Supply Chain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Edge AI, Healthcare, Logistics, Edge Computing, Aged care, Hospitals 2026-07-17T14:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/google-cloud-unveils-agent-tool-for-faster-ai-upgrades IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-17T14:15:00+12:00 Google Cloud unveils agent tool for faster AI upgrades IT Department, Research and Development (R&D), Application infrastructure, Orchestration, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Google Gemini, AI Agents (Agentic AI), AI Coding, Google Cloud, AIOps, Cloud Services, AI Adoption, DevOps, United States (US), Generative AI (GenAI), Quality assurance, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Google, Machine learning (ML), Software engineering, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Workflow Automation, Prompt Engineering, Silicon Valley 2026-07-17T14:15:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/google-brings-bigquery-sql-cells-to-open-source-notebooks IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-17T14:00:00+12:00 Google brings BigQuery SQL cells to open-source notebooks Data Analytics, Cloud, Developer tools, Laptops, Business Intelligence (BI), Google Cloud, Excel, Google, Cloud analytics, Machine learning (ML), Data Visualisation, Data Science, Data cleaning, Open source, Python, Data Transformation 2026-07-17T14:00:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/australia-sets-up-office-of-ai-amid-trust-concerns IT Brief Australia en 2026-07-17T14:00:00+12:00 Australia sets up Office of AI amid trust concerns Recruitment, Digital Transformation, Data centers (DC), Application infrastructure, Data sovereignty, Australia & New Zealand, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Resources (HR), Hybrid & Remote Work, AI Ethics & Governance, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Explainable AI, Flexible work, Linux, Inflation, Data governance, Australian Government, Digital Economy, Infrastructure monitoring, Energy consumption, SUSE, LogicMonitor, Digital Sovereignty, Monitoring, Change Management, Open source, Observability, AI Safety 2026-07-18T01:00:06+12:00