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Two thirds of IT roles face the chop

July 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
The IT shop floor faces the sort of radical overhaul that factory floors endured two decades ago – and about two thirds of current IT roles will disappear as enterprises disrupt themselves… read more...
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Enterprises warned: double-cross startups at your peril

July 27, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australian organisations looking to leapfrog the competition by leveraging new companies should treat them with kid gloves or risk being cold-shouldered by the entire startup community… read more...

Complexity causing data centre blues? Hyperconvergence to the rescue

July 23, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
The physical contents of data centres tend to stealthily expand, becoming increasingly difficult to manage… read more...
Data

IoT and enterprise expectations fuel the data firehose

July 23, 2015 | Beverley Head
Without a radical rethink of enterprise IT, the data that emerges from sensors and consumer focused services will become a burden on the organisation rather than a valuable commodity… read more...
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Will driverless cars cause internet traffic jams?

July 22, 2015 | Beverley Head
Adelaide will host Australia’s first on-road trials of driverless cars starting in November – but could driverless cars, which produce around a gigabyte of data a second, clog the internet?… read more...
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Technology comes to le Tour de France

July 21, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
198 riders form mesh network broadcasting data to the world… read more...
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Gartner warns CIOs; “successful projects” are the wrong target

July 21, 2015 | Beverley Head
CIOs need to reframe their definition of success and how they fund software development – and it’s a particularly big ask for public sector IT professionals… read more...
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Australia Post looks to NZ’s ShipIT for better ecommerce service

July 21, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Under pressure postal service looks to capitalise on online retail boom… read more...
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Data management platforms ‘key to future of programmatic advertising’

July 20, 2015 | Newsdesk
Automated advertising requires a specialised data warehouse… read more...
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Cloud costs come down, but there is no price war

July 20, 2015 | Newsdesk
On-demand cloud pricing has fallen 2.25 percent, while the cost for customers that commit has dropped 12 percent… read more...
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Government stats prick cloud bubble

July 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has taken a very sharp pin to the hyperbole regarding cloud deployment by enterprise Australia… read more...
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Treasurer wants tax and innovation to play nicely

July 17, 2015 | Beverley Head
The nexus that exists between taxation and enterprise innovation has been broached by the Treasurer, Joe Hockey, who has sent strong signals of looming changes to the nation’s tax regime… read more...
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Enterprise IT ranks, but Google rules

July 16, 2015 | Beverley Head
When asked to rank their enterprise IT department 77 percent of Australians gave them an A or a B, just 2 percent scored an F… read more...
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Enterprise cloud works best with feet on the ground

July 15, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Cloud solutions only as good as local support is… read more...
Cloud

AppDynamics gears up for migration to Amazon cloud

July 15, 2015 | Beverley Head
AppDynamics, which monitors applications performance, is updating the platform so that it can be deployed in Amazon’s cloud, potentially also in Australia… read more...

Five signs you need to rethink accounts payable systems

July 14, 2015 | Vendor - media release
Think your accounts payable systems are automated? Think again… read more...

Mobile payments weave complex payments plans

July 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
Thought navigating mobile phone contracts was tricky? There are even more Brobdingnagian challenges for merchants looking for mobile payment solutions… read more...
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Fujitsu punts on rising enterprise demand for Chromebooks

July 9, 2015 | Beverley Head
Gartner has forecast that there will only be 225,000 Chromebooks sold across the whole of the APAC region this year – but Fujitsu still reckons it’s a market worth a punt… read more...
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The end of an error as Microsoft nukes Nokia handsets

July 9, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Nokia handsets are dead and Microsoft killed them. Where to for the Surface… read more...
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Technologists turn attention to older Australians

July 8, 2015 | Beverley Head
Most Western nations are grappling with the challenges of ageing populations and the impost that will have on their economies and healthcare budgets in particular. Can technology help?… read more...

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