https://itbrief.com.au/story/the-ai-metric-that-matters-isn-t-token-cost IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-31T14:43:00+12:00 The AI metric that matters isn't token cost Nigel Vaz CEO, Productivity, Digital Transformation, Tokenisation, Risk & Compliance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Digital Strategy, Customer Experience (CX), Customer service, Data governance, Business Value, Systems integration, Publicis Sapient, Business Transformation, Change Management, Opinion 2026-08-31T14:45:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/the-hidden-cost-of-technical-debt-in-the-race-to-modernise-java-applications IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-31T14:27:00+12:00 The hidden cost of technical debt in the race to modernise Java applications Dean Vaughan, Digital Transformation, Risk & Compliance, Applications, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud adoption, IT Governance, Java, Microservices, Azul, Tech debt, AI Adoption, DevOps, Cloud migration, Software testing, APAC, Software engineering, Asia Pacific, Interoperability, Observability, Opinion 2026-08-31T14:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/aidan-tudehope-to-champion-sovereign-ai-in-australia IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-31T12:25:00+12:00 Aidan Tudehope to champion sovereign AI in Australia ICT sector, Research and Development (R&D), Data centers (DC), Quantum Computing, Data sovereignty, Cloud, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Australian Taxation Office (ATO), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, AI Infrastructure, National Security, Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), AI Models, Public Sector, Cloud Services, Digital Infrastructure, Australian Government, NSW government, Digital Economy, Pearcey Foundation, Victorian government, Digital Sovereignty, AI Strategy, Critical Infrastructure, GovTech 2026-08-31T12:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/ai-bubble-may-have-more-in-common-with-tulips-than-railroads IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-31T12:07:00+12:00 AI bubble may have more in common with tulips than railroads Data centers (DC), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Market competition, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Telcos, Hype Cycle, Venture Capital, Infrastructure Investment, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Energy consumption, Netflix, Open source, High Performance Computing (HPC), University of New South Wales (UNSW) 2026-08-31T12:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/datadog-targets-enterprise-risk-with-ai-and-automation IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-31T11:03:00+12:00 Datadog targets enterprise risk with AI and automation New Zealand (NZ), Outsourcing, Managed Services, Digital Transformation, IT Department, Regulatory technology, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Risk & Compliance, Financial Services, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), eCommerce, AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, Software Development, Healthcare, Sydney, AIOps, Video processing, Public Sector, IT Automation, Microservices, Customer Experience (CX), AI Adoption, DevOps, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Infrastructure monitoring, Machine learning (ML), Cloud migration, Incident Response, User experience (UX), Video analytics, Incident management, Observability, GRC, Hybrid Cloud, Datadog, AI Safety, Editor interview 2026-08-31T11:15:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/australia-could-cut-ai-emissions-with-data-centres IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-28T16:25:00+12:00 Australia could cut AI emissions with data centres Sustainability, Manufacturing, ICT sector, Data centers (DC), Data sovereignty, Cloud, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, Clean technologies, AI Infrastructure, Carbon emissions, National Security, Data residency, Southeast Asia, Infrastructure Investment, Carbon footprint, Digital Infrastructure, Data governance, Australian Government, Digital Economy, Decarbonisation, Machine learning (ML), Australian economy, Indonesia, Digital Sovereignty, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Renewable energy, Software engineering, Asia Pacific, Global warming, Climate change 2026-08-28T16:30:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/equinix-doubles-foundation-funding-with-usd-50m-pledge IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-28T13:45:00+12:00 Equinix doubles foundation funding with USD $50m pledge HP, IT Industry, TechEd, Equinix, Skills shortage, Data centers (DC), Public Internet, Chinese, Women in Technology, Digital Skills, Cisco, Data infrastructure, Digital Literacy, Corporate social responsibility (CSR), Mumbai, Digital Infrastructure, United States (US), EdTech, Digital Economy, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), India, Workforce development, Girls in STEM, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Philippines, Digital divide, Career Pathways, Digital Inclusion, UNICEF 2026-08-28T15:00:08+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/adobe-expands-photoshop-with-beta-ai-assisted-editor IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-28T13:15:00+12:00 Adobe expands Photoshop with beta AI assisted editor Adobe Firefly, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Imaging, Branding, User Interface, Digital Imaging, Adobe, Digital art, Generative AI (GenAI), Machine learning (ML), Adobe Stock, Computer vision 2026-08-28T13:30:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/australian-ai-training-gap-becomes-cost-productivity-burden IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-28T11:53:00+12:00 Australian AI training gap becomes cost, productivity burden Microsoft, Productivity, Digital Transformation, IT Department, Skills shortage, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, IBRS, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), AI Adoption, Data governance, Generative AI (GenAI), Microsoft Copilot, Data Security, Shadow IT, AI Strategy, Change Management, Editor interview 2026-08-28T12:00:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/the-internet-times-are-a-changing-fastly IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-28T09:51:00+12:00 The internet times are a'changing Fastly Digital Transformation, Application infrastructure, OpenAI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Anthropic, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Google, Bots, User experience (UX), Fastly, Data exfiltration, Content delivery network (CDN), Edge Computing, Meta, Editor interview 2026-08-28T12:30:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/ai-visibility-becoming-the-new-boardroom-blind-spot IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T18:21:00+12:00 AI visibility becoming the new boardroom blind spot New Zealand (NZ), Robotics (Robots), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), IT Department, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Security Operations Centres (SOCs), Financial Systems, Identity and Access Management (IAM), User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA), AI Security, Risk & Compliance, Zero Trust Security, Data Privacy, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, Supply Chain Security, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Chief Information Officer (CIO), IT Governance, Customer data, ERP Security, Identity governance, Security Posture, DevOps, Saviynt, Generative AI (GenAI), Data Security, Access Control, API Security, Data Protection, Infosec, Posture management, AI Safety, Opinion, James Ross 2026-08-27T18:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/la-trobe-launches-australia-s-first-ai-engineering-degree IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T17:01:00+12:00 La Trobe launches Australia's first AI engineering degree Microsoft, Robotics (Robots), Sustainability, Energy efficient, Digital Transformation, IT Department, Skills shortage, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Industry 4.0, Operational Technologies (OT), Australia & New Zealand, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Digital Skills, Melbourne, CyberCX, Cisco, Higher education, Precision agriculture, Industrial Automation, Industrial Revolution, Digital Infrastructure, Sensors, AI skills, Workforce development, Rockwell Automation, La Trobe University, NVIDIA, AI Safety 2026-08-27T17:15:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/scx-ai-builds-australian-inference-service-on-asics IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T16:56:00+12:00 SCX.ai builds Australian inference service on ASICs IT Industry, Hyperscale, Data centers (DC), Supply Chain, Tokenisation, AI Security, Data sovereignty, Large Language Models (LLMs), Australian, AI Ethics & Governance, AI Infrastructure, AI Models, Anthropic, Energy consumption, ASIC, TSMC, Digital Sovereignty, SCX.ai, Edge Computing, Deepseek, NVIDIA, Open source, Containerisation, AI-as-a-service, Editor interview, TechLeaders 2026-08-27T21:15:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/shadow-ai-becomes-security-headache-as-workers-outpace-governance IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T14:57:00+12:00 Shadow AI becomes security headache as workers outpace governance Digital Transformation, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), IT Department, IT Strategy, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Risk & Compliance, OpenAI, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Data Privacy, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, Google Gemini, Chief Information Officer (CIO), SmartPhones, AI Models, IT Governance, Regulation, Anthropic, Cloud Services, Data governance, Generative AI (GenAI), Board of Directors, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Data Security, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), ChatGPT, Shadow IT, APAC, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Protection, Infosec, Change Management, Business Continuity, Claude, Editor interview 2026-08-27T15:15:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/glean-launches-tau-to-cut-enterprise-ai-token-costs IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T13:31:00+12:00 Glean launches Tau to cut enterprise AI token costs Digital Transformation, Risk & Compliance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Ethics & Governance, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Anthropic, AI Adoption, Data governance, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Uber, Workplace automation, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), AI platform, Customer Support, AI Monitoring (AIM), IT management, Unstructured data, ServiceNow, Claude, AI Safety 2026-08-27T13:45:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/everpure-raises-outlook-after-record-second-quarter-revenue IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T13:15:00+12:00 Everpure raises outlook after record second-quarter revenue IT Department, Hyperscale, ICT sector, Financial results, Microsoft Azure, Data centers (DC), Application infrastructure, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data management, Data infrastructure, Red Hat, Cash flow, Virtualization, Virtualisation, Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), Capital Markets, United States Dollar (USD), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Databricks, Hybrid Cloud 2026-08-27T13:30:08+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/nsw-s-pexa-price-cut-risks-killing-australian-tech-jobs IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T11:45:00+12:00 NSW's PEXA price cut risks killing Australian tech jobs IT Industry, Productivity, Data sovereignty, Australian, Cybersecurity, Software Development, Digital Strategy, New South Wales (NSW), Contractors, Digital Infrastructure, NSW government, Property Market, Digital Identity, Digital Sovereignty, Software engineering, Critical Infrastructure, GovTech, Editor interview, TechLeaders 2026-08-27T12:00:07+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/nutanix-unveils-ai-2-8-kubernetes-platform-update IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T11:21:00+12:00 Nutanix unveils AI 2.8 & Kubernetes platform update Managed Services, IT Department, IT Strategy, Data centers (DC), Partner Programmes, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Regulatory technology, Application infrastructure, AI Security, Risk & Compliance, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Managed Service Provider (MSP), AI Ethics & Governance, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Cloud Service Providers (CSP), Domain-Specific Language Models (DSLMs), AI Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Virtualization, Virtualisation, Model Context Protocol (MCP), NVIDIA NIM, Access Control, Containers, Nutanix, Compliance, LORA, Asia Pacific, NVIDIA, Security, Video Management System (VMS), Service Provider, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Hybrid Cloud 2026-08-27T11:30:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/nintex-unifies-automation-ai-in-platform-overhaul IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T11:18:00+12:00 Nintex unifies automation & AI in platform overhaul Digital Transformation, IT Department, App development, Orchestration, Low code & No code (LCNC), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Forrester Research, AI Models, Public Sector, IT Automation, Customer Experience (CX), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Intelligent automation, Process automation, BPM, Nintex, Enterprise Automation, Change Management, Workflow Automation 2026-08-27T11:30:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/gartner-sees-securing-ai-market-hit-usd-4-8bn-in-2027 IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T11:15:00+12:00 Gartner sees securing AI market hit USD $4.8bn in 2027 Digital Transformation, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Supply Chain, AI Security, Risk & Compliance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, Supply Chain Security, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Startups, AI Models, AI Adoption, Data governance, Machine learning (ML), Access Control, API management, API Security, Application Security, Infosec, Gartner, GRC, AI Safety, Analyst report 2026-08-27T11:15:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/amd-launches-calculator-for-enterprise-ai-deployment-costs IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T11:14:00+12:00 AMD launches calculator for enterprise AI deployment costs Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Digital Transformation, IT Department, Hyperscale, Data centers (DC), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), IT Infrastructure, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Edge AI, Chief Information Officer (CIO), AI Infrastructure, AI Models, IT Governance, FinOps, AI Adoption, Generative AI (GenAI), Fleet Management, AMD, AI Strategy, IT Procurement, Hybrid AI, Hybrid Cloud 2026-08-27T11:15:05+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/snowflake-names-adrian-de-luca-apj-engineering-chief IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-27T10:42:00+12:00 Snowflake names Adrian De Luca APJ engineering chief Data Analytics, Digital Transformation, IT Department, App development, Hitachi Vantara, Application infrastructure, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Snowflake, Cloud, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Data sharing, Melbourne, IT Governance, Public Sector, Federal Government, Data governance, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud migration, Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), APAC, Asia Pacific, Data Platform, Japan, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Security, Job moves 2026-08-27T10:45:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/nearmap-builds-ai-moat-from-20-years-of-aerial-data IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-26T19:54:00+12:00 Nearmap builds AI moat from 20 years of aerial data Small Business (SMB), Smart Cities, Integration, Asset Management, Australian, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Residential Property, Mapping, Facilities management, Construction, Data infrastructure, Data ownership, GIS, InsurTech, United States (US), Urban Planning, Big Data, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Machine learning (ML), Aviation, Architecture, Engineering, Computer vision, Risk assessment, Digital twins, Aerial photography, Renewable energy, Data Platform, Location-Based Services, Commercial Property, Nearmap, Deep learning, Aerial imagery, Editor interview, TechLeaders 2026-08-26T20:00:16+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/rocket-software-mainframes-are-modern-critical-infrastructure IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-26T18:38:00+12:00 Rocket Software: mainframes are modern critical infrastructure IT Industry, Digital Transformation, IT Department, Skills shortage, Project Management, Gartner Magic Quadrant, Supply Chain, Application Programming Interface (API), Financial Services, Australian, AI Ethics & Governance, Software Development, AIOps, Perth, Public Sector, DevOps, Cryptography, Cloud migration, Workforce development, APAC, Software engineering, Critical Infrastructure, Gartner, IBM, Hybrid Cloud, Rocket Software, Editor interview, Analyst report, TechLeaders 2026-08-27T17:45:06+12:00 https://itbrief.com.au/story/interactive-customers-win-as-ai-expands-into-service-operations IT Brief Australia en 2026-08-26T18:19:00+12:00 Interactive customers win, as AI expands into service operations IT service management (ITSM), Managed Services, Digital Transformation, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Risk & Compliance, Low code & No code (LCNC), Applications, Data Privacy, Large Language Models (LLMs), Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Ethics & Governance, Cybersecurity, AI Agents (Agentic AI), Domain-Specific Language Models (DSLMs), AI Models, IT services, Cloud Services, Customer Experience (CX), AI Adoption, Microsoft Copilot, Service management, Data Security, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365, Shadow IT, Interactive, Data classification, Data Protection, Change Management, Incident management, Workflow Automation, Editor interview, TechLeaders 2026-08-26T18:30:06+12:00