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Australian Stories

Infrastructure stories

Australian budget boosts AI, but cyber gaps remain

Despite welcome AI funding, tech leaders say small firms still lack the cyber defences needed to adopt new tools safely.

By Mark Tarre • 13 min read • Wed, 13th May 2026

Data Protection

Compliance is not the same as resilience: What Australian organisations are missing beyond the Essential Eight

Australian firms face growing cyber gaps as insurers and clients demand evidence of controls beyond the Essential Eight, amid new AI threats.

By Tony Rabottini • 5 min read • Mon, 11th May 2026

Customer Relationship Management

Pipedrive launches Sydney data centre for Australian users

Australian sales teams should see faster response times as the CRM shifts local customer data onshore to meet residency demands.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 7th May 2026

Customer Relationship Management

First-party data is the new oil: Why Australian businesses can't afford to wait

Privacy rules and browser changes are forcing Australian businesses to rebuild marketing around consented customer records before performance drops further.

By Lovan • 7 min read • Tue, 5th May 2026

Disaster Recovery

Livingstone Shire boosts disaster recovery with Nutanix

Daily recovery testing now gives the Queensland council greater confidence its warning and evacuation systems will stay online during severe weather.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Tue, 5th May 2026

Global Stories

Infrastructure stories

Supply Chain

Bitdefender finds FamousSparrow energy sector campaign

Repeat breaches exposed an Azerbaijani oil and gas operator to espionage as FamousSparrow exploited Microsoft Exchange flaws for two months.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 14th May 2026

Manufacturing

AWS deepens SAP ties with new AI & migration tools

Customers could move SAP workloads to AWS in days rather than weeks, as new integrations aim to cut migration time and expand AI use.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Thu, 14th May 2026

Data Protection

Boomi & Red Hat team up for agentic AI stack

The tie-up aims to help large companies run AI agents securely at scale, while keeping data, governance and spending under tighter control.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 14th May 2026

Hybrid Cloud

Red Hat & NVIDIA add controls for enterprise AI agents

New controls aim to let enterprises run autonomous AI agents more securely across hybrid cloud systems, with tighter governance and audit trails.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 14th May 2026

Data Protection

Governments eye agentic AI as security worries persist

Governments are weighing agentic AI to ease staffing pressure, but most leaders want stronger security and sovereignty safeguards before scaling up.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Wed, 13th May 2026

Virtualisation

CloudBolt adds MCP support to cloud management platform

Enterprises can now let AI agents handle approved infrastructure tasks in CloudBolt CMP while keeping permissions and audit controls in place.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Tue, 12th May 2026

Virtualisation

Object First launches Fleet Manager for backup estates

The free cloud service gives Veeam users and service providers a single view of scattered backup clusters as ransomware risk grows.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 8th May 2026

Hyperscale

AWS previews Bedrock AgentCore payments for AI agents

Developers can now let AI agents pay for paid content and services in real time, with US East, US West, Europe and Asia Pacific support.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 5 min read • Fri, 8th May 2026

Cloud Security

Sysdig launches headless cloud security for AI agents

Cloud teams can now investigate incidents and fix risks inside coding tools, as Sysdig shifts security work from dashboards to AI agents.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • Fri, 8th May 2026

Firewalls

Extreme expands AI networking platform with Agent ONE

Customers can now manage mixed-vendor networks and security from one platform as Extreme adds third-party device support and AI agents.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Thu, 7th May 2026

Hybrid Cloud

Quali adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3 support to Torque platform

Enterprises gain governed access to Nemotron 3 inference and training environments as Torque extends control across cloud, on-premises and deskside GPUs.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 7th May 2026