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IoT and enterprise expectations fuel the data firehose
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...
Will driverless cars cause internet traffic jams?
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...
Technology comes to le Tour de France
198 riders form mesh network broadcasting data to the world… read more...
Gartner warns CIOs; “successful projects” are the wrong target
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...
Australia Post looks to NZ’s ShipIT for better ecommerce service
Under pressure postal service looks to capitalise on online retail boom… read more...
Data management platforms ‘key to future of programmatic advertising’
Automated advertising requires a specialised data warehouse… read more...
Cloud costs come down, but there is no price war
On-demand cloud pricing has fallen 2.25 percent, while the cost for customers that commit has dropped 12 percent… read more...
Government stats prick cloud bubble
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has taken a very sharp pin to the hyperbole regarding cloud deployment by enterprise Australia… read more...
Treasurer wants tax and innovation to play nicely
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...
Enterprise IT ranks, but Google rules
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...
Enterprise cloud works best with feet on the ground
Cloud solutions only as good as local support is… read more...
AppDynamics gears up for migration to Amazon cloud
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...
Social media set to boost online trade to US$1.7 trillion
Juniper says Facebook, Twitter retail activities will drive web purchases… read more...
Five signs you need to rethink accounts payable systems
Think your accounts payable systems are automated? Think again… read more...
Mobile payments weave complex payments plans
Thought navigating mobile phone contracts was tricky? There are even more Brobdingnagian challenges for merchants looking for mobile payment solutions… read more...
Managing big data: HP introduces File Analysis software
One of the biggest issues with big data isn’t so much the physical volume of information but rather its classification: what’s valuable, and what isn’t, and where is the best place to store it… read more...
Fujitsu punts on rising enterprise demand for Chromebooks
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...
The end of an error as Microsoft nukes Nokia handsets
Nokia handsets are dead and Microsoft killed them. Where to for the Surface… read more...
Technologists turn attention to older Australians
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...
Tighter APRA controls put a damper on cloud
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has delivered a damning report card on the checks and balances undertaken by regulated entities when moving to the cloud… read more...