Australia will spend $77.2 billion on technology in 2014 – the nation will spend less on mobile devices, but ramp up software investment. For CIOs these statistics paint an interesting digital picture… read more...

A service billed as the first regional network-as-a-service (NaaS) system offering elastic bandwidth for enterprise CIOs has been announced by Pacnet and is scheduled to go live early next year… read more...

A system developed to allow end users in large enterprises to dial up the applications, peripherals, data and services that they need to do their job will be launched in early 2014… read more...

Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite has confirmed its offer to switch Australian and New Zealand users of SAP’s Business by Design system to its platform for free for a year… read more...

Crossword and puzzle publisher Lovatts Media has revamped its business model and migrated to cloud-based systems; IT department was scarcely involved… read more...

Organisations weaving together computing fabrics out of various cloud services can hit the wall when it comes to successful integration… read more...

Recent commentary that infrastructure-as-a-service reaches an economic barrier around the $50,000-a-month mark has been dismissed by Freelancer.com… read more...

Further evidence has been uncovered regarding the potential for the IT department and CIO to become marginalised in terms of strategic technology decision making… read more...

Patrick Eltridge, chief information officer of Telstra wants to run the “best IT shop in Asia Pacific” – not to satisfy his vanity, but because it’s a “strategic necessity”… read more...

The relatively slow pace of Agile adoption in Asia Pacific is putting many local enterprises at a competitive disadvantage compared to faster moving global peers… read more...

Fresh research from Gartner says organisations need to digitalise their operations in order to stay competitive and survive; a new Australian digital sandpit could show them how… read more...

Transformative technologies are set to continue to disrupt the enterprise in 2014 and beyond… read more...

Listed accounting software house Xero has signalled that its $NZ180 million capital raising to fund global expansion won’t diminish its attention to local customers and the new Australian tax platform… read more...

There is a rising tide of Australian organisations considering migrating their on premises ERP solutions to the cloud in order to free up capital according to listed IT services provider ASG Group… read more...

This month’s successful listing of online foreign exchange company OzForex has demonstrated the local appetite for technology stocks and bodes well for other planned IPOs… read more...

Companies expecting instant benefits from investment in big data initiatives are likely to be disappointed, but should not delay getting started… read more...

Gartner has published its annual list of the top strategic technology trends, which includes software-defined anything (SDx), 3D printing, mobile apps, cloud/client architecture, hybrid cloud and IT-as-service-broker and smart machines… read more...

The Australian online advertising market was worth A$3.6 billion last year – and thanks to new research from Roy Morgan it’s now clear exactly who that advertising is reaching… read more...

A new study shows testing and quality assurance spending has significantly increased, accounting for almost a quarter of the IT budget… read more...

The leaders of Australia’s law firms are playing ostrich when it comes to IT, with many keeping their head in the sand over the technology investment needed to thrive in the future… read more...