| Today on iTWire | This Morning Inmarsat beams in broadband for Austrian Airlines flights Written by Peter Dinham Global mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has sealed a deal to provide its advanced new GX for Aviation in-flight broadband solution to Austrian Airlines’ continental… Read more... Confidence up, with positive outlook for IT employment Written by Peter Dinham A positive outlook for employment in the Australian IT industry is forecast for the last quarter of this year to the end of December, with… Read more... Adyen deploys to Equinix Melbourne, Sydney data centres Written by Peter Dinham Global payments technology company, Adyen, has deployed its infrastructure in Equinix data centres in both Sydney and Melbourne. Read more... Australia jumps to 4th in Alibaba Global Shopping Festival highest selling countries Written by Peter Dinham Australia was ranked the fourth highest selling country in Chinese online retailer Aibaba’s Global Shopping Festival last Friday, driven by an increased number of Australian… Read more... Vic Government awards $103m contract to Civica Written by Peter Dinham The Victorian government has awarded a $103.6 million contract to global software applications, digital solutions and outsourcing services for the public sector, Civica, to provide… Read more... Nvidia SaturnV sets mark for AI supercomputing Written by Stephen Withers Nvidia's new DGX SaturnV is the world's most efficient AI supercomputer, according to the company's vice-president of solutions architecture and engineering, Marc Hamilton. Read more... ICT sector executive demand drops three months in a row Written by Peter Dinham Demand for executives in the ICT sector plummeted in October for the third consecutive month in contrast to the continuing trend in other sectors of… Read more... ‘Silver surfers’ hit the Internet for shopping, video streaming & Skyping Written by Peter Dinham Australia’s senior citizens, many of them grandparents, are taking to Internet surfing with great gusto, according to new research which reveals that there is an… Read more... Phone number portability under the microscope with CA review Written by Peter Dinham Peak telecommunications industry group the Communications Alliance (CA) is reviewing whether Australia’s number portability requirements need updating to reflect a changed environment for telecoms providers… Read more... CSIRO seeks bragging rights with new supercomputer Written by Stephen Withers CSIRO is inviting tenders for the supply of a new supercomputer. Read more... Sony PlayStation 4 teardown – console wars are not over Written by Ray Shaw Video games consoles have been receiving mid-life Viagra boosters to support 4K TV, HDR and VR headsets. The latest is the Sony PS4 Pro. Read more... Data is the new cyber-gold Written by Ray Shaw While “data breaches” or theft of personally identifiable information occupy news headlines, the real cyber-gold can be in the company IP contained in documents –… Read more... What is the sudden interest in SD-WAN about? Written by Ray Shaw Following the initial barrage of service provider SD-WAN announcements this year, 2017 will see a dichotomy between the providers that deliver mature, scalable offerings and… Read more... Monday Afternoon Telstra takes strategic investment in Boomtown to service SMB market Written by Peter Dinham Telstra has invested in US-based software support and technical services company Boomtown, with plans to utilise the company’s technology and services for its own customers… Read more... Pegasystems opens fourth Australian office Written by Peter Dinham US-based global software company Pegasystems has expanded its Australian business with the opening of a fourth office in Brisbane. Read more... NZ 111 emergency call service up and running after earthquake disruption Written by Peter Dinham New Zealand’s 111 emergency telephone service is up and running normally again, after initial disruption in the first half-hour after the earthquake that hit the… Read more... Why automation is key to software-defined storage Written by Ray Shaw You would have heard of the term “software-defined”. It is now being applied to “everything” — compute, environment, storage, networking, data centres, W-LANs — and… Read more... Staying ahead of disruptors by unlocking the power of IoT Written by Ray Shaw A fridge that can order food, a smart home that can monitor and help look after the aged, right up to the factory of the… Read more... If it is not valuable data, it must be ROT Written by Ray Shaw At the recent Veritas information governance and management conference, it was revealed that perhaps as much of 60% of unstructured data was redundant, obsolete, and… Read more... The best phishing lures in 2016 Written by Ray Shaw Phishing - the practice of tricking an email recipient into clicking on an embedded attachment or URL to infect their computer or steal information -… Read more... Dr Dennis Moreau speaks virtual security (interview) Written by Ray Shaw I had the pleasure of chatting to Dr Dennis Moreau, Senior Engineering Architect at VMWare who was in Australia to address the vFORUM about cyber-security. Read more... Sponsored Announcements Influential Futurist H.B. Siegel (Pixar/ILM/Amazon) Comes to Sydney H.B. Siegel’s current job title of Principal Investigator might sound rather mundane, like some kind of local school inspector. However, once you learn his employer… Read more... Analytics vendor Yellowfin to enable infographics and beautiful dashboards with 7.3 launch Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has positioned itself as the leading modern BI platform for creating code-free analytical applications, purpose-built analytic… Read more... Mobileum acquired by Audax Private Equity Leading telco and big data analytics company Mobileum has been acquired by Boston Massachusetts-based private equity firm Audax in a deal which Mobileium says will… Read more... Yellowfin to reveal advanced data visualization capabilities during Yellowfin 7.3 launch Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, is set to unveil a number of new advanced data visualization capabilities during the launch of… Read more... How SD-WAN segmentation cuts network complexity By Graham Schultz, Sales Director Australia and New Zealand, Silver Peak There are multiple reasons why the IT industry is so excited about software-defined wide… Read more... Simplifying Disaster Recovery in a Complex World By Nicki Pereira, CTO Zettagrid In a digital world where everyone and everything is always online, the importance of a disaster recovery (DR) plan serves… Read more... |
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