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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...
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Devil lurks in the e-gov detail
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...
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MYOB reaches further into enterprise cloud
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...
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UXC predicts healthy earnings surge
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...
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Tax office sets sights on tech tax
More than 200 multinational companies, including 25 technology enterprises are under close scrutiny from the Australian Taxation Office… read more...
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Windows 10: A new generation of Windows
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...
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Cash sours as online growth slows
Consumers in Australia and New Zealand demonstrated their continued appetite for cashless transactions over Christmas – but online retail barely reached bonanza status… read more...
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Demand for cloud surges in Australia
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...
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Government greenlights ICT statistics overhaul
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...
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Quantum computing heralds better data security
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...
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Software world-first carves the costs of BYOD
Good Technology has released software that allows personal and corporate consumption of data on a BYOD device, making employee reimbursement somewhat easier… read more...
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Enterprise software spending growth leads the pack
Enterprise software is a standout in Gartner’s 2015 IT spending forecast – though market competition and consolidation may threaten some vendors’ coffers… read more...
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Feds update big data best practice guide
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...
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Office 365 add-on crash tackles cloud ERPs and accounting
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...
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iPhone 6 release could change ever-growing Aussie smartphone market
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...
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Entrepreneurship rockets up academic rankings
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...
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Software depreciation slows, clawing $420 million more
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...
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NBN Co gift-wraps Optus and Telstra deals
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...
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Jobs outlook brightens as 2015 looms
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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Xero US listing on cards next year
After a rugged year on the stock exchange the cloud accounting provider has got its mojo back indicating US growth and listing plans… read more...