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IBM technology limits personal data exposure

February 3, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australian biosecurity could be an early winner from a cloud-based security breakthrough touted by IBM and being tested by the CSIRO… read more...
software defined network

Brocade combats SDN procurement hesitation with year’s free trial

February 2, 2015 | Beverley Head
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...

Devil lurks in the e-gov detail

January 29, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australia will establish a Digital Transformation Office (DTO) under the stewardship of communications minister Malcolm Turnbull, but the devil still lurks in the detail… read more...
MYOB Cloud ERP

MYOB reaches further into enterprise cloud

January 29, 2015 | Beverley Head
The financial software business, headquartered in Sydney, has unveiled MYOB Advanced, a cloud-based ERP for the enterprise market across Australia and New Zealand… read more...
sales growth

UXC predicts healthy earnings surge

January 28, 2015 | Beverley Head
ASX-listed IT services company UXC Limited has started 2015 at a fast clip with growing enterprise demand and a push into the healthcare sector… read more...

Tax office sets sights on tech tax

January 27, 2015 | Beverley Head
More than 200 multinational companies, including 25 technology enterprises are under close scrutiny from the Australian Taxation Office… read more...
Media press release

Windows 10: A new generation of Windows

January 22, 2015 | Vendor - media release
REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 21, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a new generation of Windows, with a wide range of experiences designed to usher in… read more...
Christmas shopping

Cash sours as online growth slows

January 21, 2015 | Beverley Head
Consumers in Australia and New Zealand demonstrated their continued appetite for cashless transactions over Christmas – but online retail barely reached bonanza status… read more...
cloud popularity up

Demand for cloud surges in Australia

January 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australian enterprise has got significantly more comfortable with the notion of public cloud with Gartner forecasting a 24 percent increase in spending during 2015… read more...

Government greenlights ICT statistics overhaul

January 20, 2015 | Beverley Head
Australia is set to overhaul the way it tracks and measures information and communications technology statistics, and attempt to assign higher priority to key data… read more...

Quantum computing heralds better data security

January 16, 2015 | Beverley Head
Advances being made in Australian and New Zealand Universities are beating a path toward information systems which offer orders of magnitude improvements in security… read more...

Software world-first carves the costs of BYOD

January 14, 2015 | Beverley Head
Good Technology has released software that allows personal and corporate consumption of data on a BYOD device, making employee reimbursement somewhat easier… read more...

Enterprise software spending growth leads the pack

January 13, 2015 | Beverley Head
Enterprise software is a standout in Gartner’s 2015 IT spending forecast – though market competition and consolidation may threaten some vendors’ coffers… read more...

Feds update big data best practice guide

January 12, 2015 | Beverley Head
The Federal Government has updated its big data better practice guide, including a new chapter on what it considers “responsible data analytics” for most, if not all, agencies… read more...
Managing contemporary financials

Office 365 add-on crash tackles cloud ERPs and accounting

December 18, 2014 | Beverley Head
A Sydney-based business is taking on ERP and financial software vendors with a tightly integrated bolt-on for Office 365 that is being hosted in Microsoft’s Australian data centres… read more...

iPhone 6 release could change ever-growing Aussie smartphone market

December 18, 2014 | Beverley Head
There are just over seven billion people on the planet; on average one in three will buy a new PC, tablet or smartphone this year. Meanwhile many Australians are hanging out for the big-screen iPhone 6… read more...
lightbulb entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship rockets up academic rankings

December 18, 2014 | Beverley Head
Teaching entrepreneurship to Australians has suddenly become a very hot topic for the nation’s leading tertiary institutions with both undergraduate and Masters courses proliferating… read more...
Depreciation

Software depreciation slows, clawing $420 million more

December 17, 2014 | Beverley Head
Faced with a budget shortfall the Australian Government is looking to reap an extra $420 million by tinkering with the rate of in-house software depreciation… read more...
NBN

NBN Co gift-wraps Optus and Telstra deals

December 16, 2014 | Beverley Head
Almost $12 billion worth of agreements between NBN Co, Telstra and Optus have been inked in the final run up to Christmas, leaving the way clear for rollouts to 2020… read more...
IT jobs

Jobs outlook brightens as 2015 looms

December 12, 2014 | Beverley Head
Skilled IT staff looking for work across Australia and New Zealand could take heart from a pair of reports released this week that suggest employee demand may be starting to challenge supply again… read more...

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