The future of communications technologies across the Asia-Pacific region will be under the microscope when the Asia Pacific Telecommunity Preparatory Group will hold an international spectrum meeting in Perth in March.

With the two largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks in history occurring in the past week, US-based security vendor Netscout Systems has taken the opportunity to partner with an Australian solutions provider in a DDOS mitigation reseller deal.

The increasingly dominant global cloud hosting and services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) celebrates its fifth anniversary within Australia this month and reflected on how Australian cloud conversations have changed during this time.

Despite a plethora of entertainment options in various telco smartphone plans, fast growing MVNO OVO has won an industry award for "Best Plans in Entertainment" – again.

iTWire spoke to Sushil Kumar, senior vice-president of Product Management at CA Technologies, on the topic of the app economy, and the advice he shared to make businesses and their customers app happy.

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