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Kathmandu ascends to cloud in pursuit of international growth
Today, the outdoors equipment and clothing company has announced that it has taken another step on its journey of international scalability… read more...
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Metadata debate considers the 39 steps
The Government’s proposed metadata retention Bill is expected to be introduced to the Parliament today – though the real debate will come later in the Senate… read more...
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Bank pulls $10 million pin on Salesforce
Salesforce has suffered a high profile deal collapse with the end of Bank of Queensland’s three-year cloud CRM pilot, which has cost the bank $10 million… read more...
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Enterprise needs to leadfoot IoT security
Gartner estimates that right now there are barely any enterprises which have formal plans to address aggressive cybersecurity business disruption attacks via the internet of things, but things are changing rapidly… read more...
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Australian start-up scene’s health patchy
Australia is slowly going backward in the innovation stakes according to Nicta technology strategist, Dean Economou… read more...
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ForgeRock uses RealMe as springboard into the region
Identity and access management company ForgeRock is eyeing Australian opportunities on the back of its work on the NZ RealMe initiative… read more...
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Feds reveal cloud line up – Telstra and Optus miss out
Australia’s Federal Government has announced the names of the first companies in its whole-of-government cloud services panel – and there are surprise absences… read more...
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Industry steps up to identity challenge
In a connected world of people, things and enterprise, effective and efficient identity management and authentication is essential but complex… read more...
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A/NZ uni spinoff targets big data demand
RoZetta Technology, officially launched this week, is an attempt by 40 Australian and New Zealand universities to commercialise their big data expertise… read more...
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Data demand surges – but at what price to enterprise?
Consumer appetite for mobile data is surging – but are corporates getting a raw deal if they are paying for it?… read more...
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Atlassian edges closer to US IPO
Sydney-born software business Atlassian has taken a step closer to a US market listing, further beefing up its executive team… read more...
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MYOB and Xero take battle on the road
Australia and New Zealand’s leading accounting software companies are going up against each other on three fronts; innovation, customer count and now roadshows… read more...
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Spotlight shines on safety and security
Individuals, business, even nation states are facing a rising tide of online security and safety threats prompting a rash of different responses… read more...
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How APIs are building the new enterprise
Sydney is this week hosting up to 300 of Australia and New Zealand’s leading API developers at a conference intended to showcase the role of APIs in creating “composable enterprises”… read more...
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Vale RosterLive; hello EmpLive
The Australian brand RosterLive is no more, having been subsumed into WorkForce Software which bought the business in early 2013 and is now pushing ahead with rebranding in A/NZ… read more...
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Half of top bank CIOs report to CEO
A reshuffle at Westpac means that half of the CIOs in Australia’s leading banks again report to their chief executive officer, reinforcing the importance of technology to the sector… read more...
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Disrupt, or be disrupted
New technology and globalisation are testing many industries. We explore what digital disruption means, and find an early responder who offers advice to see off the MOOCs in your industry… read more...
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Software coders wooed by hackathons
Federal and State Governments, Paypal, Braintree, MasterCard and Deloitte are just some of the organisations lining up to run Australian hackathons in 2015… read more...
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IBM technology limits personal data exposure
Australian biosecurity could be an early winner from a cloud-based security breakthrough touted by IBM and being tested by the CSIRO… read more...
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Brocade combats SDN procurement hesitation with year’s free trial
In a bid to ramp up interest in software defined networking (SDN) amongst non-technical procurement executives, Brocade has announced a free one-year licence of its SDN controller… read more...