Preparing for public safety mobile broadband
The Mandarin 23 November 2018
Safety and emergency services across Australia are being invited to join an ambitious trial of a high bandwidth, mobile network that will underpin a whole suite of high-tech, digitally-enabled, services for police, ambulance and fire first responders.
Board education key to boosting cyber security
Computerworld Australia 06 November 2018
06 November, 2018 – There is an urgent need for boards to become better educated about cyber security in order to propagate an appropriate attitude to infosec to CEOs and, from them down, an appropriate culture throughout an organisation.
Opportunity looms for Australia’s mission-critical systems
The Mandarin 08 November 2018
When terrorists flew planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the ensuing chaos and catastrophe exposed the inability of disparate public safety agencies and networks to support emergency service responders in a major crisis.
Securing the cloud now a top priority
Computerworld Australia 06 November 2018
Gartner has just released its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), which predicts that by 2022 60 per cent of large enterprises will use a CASB to govern cloud services, up from less than 20 per cent today.
MuleSoft eyes multibillion dollar API opportunity
Computerworld Australia 02 November 2018
When Salesforce announced in March its plan to acquire API platform developer MuleSoft for US$6.5 billion it said there was potential to turn MuleSoft (estimated FY18 sales $415 million) into a $10 billion business.
‘Bigtech’ not fintech the biggest threat to banks
Computerworld Australia 31 October 2018
Fintech – startup companies offering innovative financial services — are often touted as a major threat to established banks, but, says Laura Crozier, global industry director, financial services at Software AG, it is the ‘bigtech’ companies — in particular Amazon, Apple and Google — they should fear most.
NAB banks on partnerships
Computerworld Australia 25 October 2018
National Australia Bank is partnering with a range of other organisations, and investing in startups, to broaden the range of services it is able offer customers and to bolster its position in the face of a range of players that are competing for segments of its business.
Chemist Warehouse plans AR guides, IoT sensors for stores
Computerworld Australia 18 October 2018
The Chemist Warehouse chain of discount pharmacies is contemplating installing thousands of sensors in each of its stores to track customer preferences and providing augmented reality guides via customers’ smartphones that would help them navigate around its stores.
Machine learning cuts surgical infections by 74 percent
Computerworld Australia 07 September 2018
By applying predictive analytics and machine learning techniques to patient data and real-time data from operating theatres the University of Iowa Hospital in the US managed to reduce the incidence of wound infections acquired during surgery by 74 percent.
Tibco Software unveils ‘Tibco Labs’
Computerworld Australia 04 September 2018
Tibco Software has made a swag of announcements at Tibco Now 2018, its annual conference in Las Vegas: The formation of Tibco Labs, a collaborative program for customers and partners; enhancements to its digital-business platform, the Tibco Connected Intelligence Cloud (TCIC); the availability of Tibco Data Science on AWS; and A(X) Experience, an AI-driven analytics capability for its data visualisation and analytics tool, Tibco Spotfire.
Juniper set to reveal photonic fruits of Aurrion acquisition
Computerworld Australia 04 September 2018
Juniper Networks is getting set to reveal, either late this year or early in 2019, a series of new 400Gbps photo-electronics products and routing/switching products to take advantage of these, CEO Rami Rahim has told Computerworld.
Be afraid, Dell EMC CTO tells CIOs
Computerworld Australia 03 September 2018
CIOs “have every right to be scared” as they face the challenge of responding to disruptive forces of unprecedented number and magnitude that are transforming enterprise IT, according to Dell EMC CTO John Roese.
Juniper promises to hide network complexity
Computerworld Australia 29 August 2018
A year on from unveiling his new vision for the company, Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim was in Australia this week to explain ‘Engineering Simplicity’ to the company’s Australian customers at Juniper’s Nxtwork events in Sydney and Melbourne.
VMware on AWS comes to Australia
Computerworld Australia 27 August 2018
VMware has made its cloud based Software Defined Data Centre available on the AWS Sydney region, a year almost to the day since its launch in the US and almost two years after VMware and AWS announced plans to jointly develop the service.
Bots: The new challenge for identity management
Computerworld Australia 22 August 2018
Mark McClain, founder and CEO of identity management software developer SailPoint says robotic process automation bots are rapidly emerging as a new form of identity that needs the be managed in the same way as human identities.
GitHub looks beyond code to collaboration
Computerworld Australia 12 August 2018
GitHub — the global service, recently acquired by Microsoft, that provides Git-based online source code repositories accessible by multiple developers — is widening its focus beyond code to offer support for the whole software development lifecycle, and for collaboration around any kind of data or document.
‘SoC 3.0’: Symantec beefs up Asia-Pacific cyber security with expanded Chennai SoC
Computerworld Australia 01 August 2018
Symantec formally launched its next-generation security operations centre (SoC), expanding its decade old security SoC in Chennai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Symantec has doubled the number of security staff to 140 with capacity for an additional 100.
Managed security: a big gamble for Aussie IT providers
Computer Reseller News 31 July 2018
TechSci Research estimates the Australian managed security services (MSS) market will grow at a CAGR of more than 15 percent from 2018-23 as a result of the increased uptake of cloud computing and the popularity of bring-your-own-device (BYOD).
Data literacy now a key workforce skill, says Qlik CEO
Computerworld Australia 18 July 2018
Data literacy, according to Mike Capone, CEO of analytics software company Qlik, is to the information age what traditional literacy — reading and writing — was to the industrial age: a skill essential to anyone wanting to fully participate in the workforce, and one required by all organisations for every facet of their operations.
Telstra turns on LTE broadcast technology
Computerworld Australia 12 July 2018
Telstra has turned on LTE broadcast (LTE-B) technology throughout its network, enabling real-time data to be multicast to all users on a cell site instead of each user requiring a separate stream.
Kaspersky talks up transparency initiative
Computerworld Australia 27 June 2018
Russian anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab’s campaign to counter the damage to its reputation and its revenues inflicted by the US and other governments in recent months rolled into Sydney this week, with the company holding a press lunch to flesh out details of its recently announced plans to open a ‘transparency centre’ in Switzerland.
Flinders Uni turns to cloud solution for identity management
Computerworld Australia 21 June 2018
South Australia’s Flinders University has deployed Okta’s cloud-based identity management system to provide single sign-on for staff and student access to more than 70 university applications and to streamline on-boarding of students.
DocuSign taps Azure for local hosting
Computerworld Australia 19 June 2018
Digital signing company DocuSign has installed its software in three Microsoft Azure data centres in Australia – in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra – to enable it to meet the on-shore storage requirements of Australian government customers.
However it has not ruled out expanding into collocation facilities or even building its own local data centres as its business grows.
Optus to tap SMBs’ disruptive power with Sydney Innovation Hub
Computerworld Australia 12 June 2018
Optus has launched the Optus Innovation Hub, a dedicated workspace within the Sydney Start Up Hub to enable its small and medium business arm to tap the creativity and disruptive power of small businesses for the creation of future Optus SMB products.
MEF’s grand vision: To rescue telcos from commoditisation
Computerworld Australia 08 June 2018
MEF, formerly the Metro Ethernet Forum is on a mission: To save the world’s telcos from being relegated to providing basic connectivity in every greater volumes without proportionate increases in revenues, according to its senior vice president Dan Pitt.
Brisbane-developed software powers new PCCW Global SD-WAN service
Computerworld Australia 07 June 2018
PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT (Hong Kong Telecom), has launched a global software-defined wide area network service (SD-WAN) using technology from recently acquired Console Connect, a US startup that conducted most of its R&D and software development in Brisbane.
Ziften brings Linux, MacOS threat intelligence to Windows ATP
Computerworld Australia 05 June 2018
Endpoint security specialist Ziften has joined Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Advanced Hunting project, further integrating protection for Windows, MacOS and Linux environments.
Telstra pushes 5G’s latency advantage
Computerworld Australia 08 May 2018
Telstra, in conjunction with Ericsson and Intel, has used a demonstration of online gaming to push the low latency characteristics of 5G wireless as one of the key benefits of the technology.
The public demonstration, held at Telstra’s 5G Innovation Centre on the Gold Coast, saw two teams of professional players do battle in Counterstrike: Global Offensive over the centre’s 5G network and using a locally hosted server.
Digital health in a decade, says NSW eHealth chief
Computerworld Australia 02 May 2018
The CEO and CIO of NSW eHealth, Dr Zoran Bolevich, has outline the goal of the state having a fully integrated digital health service within a decade.
Bolevich is charged with the complete digital transformation of NSW Health. He heads a health IT agency with a team of about 1000 people responsible for planning, implementing and supporting the largest digital health program in Australia.
Skills not technology the biggest challenge, says Westpac CIO
Computerworld Australia 02 May 2018
Westpac group CIO Dave Curran has flagged skills sourcing as one of the biggest challenges facing banks, and says IT staff will have to get used to constant reskilling.
Nginx sees significant microservices adoption in Australia
Computerworld Australia 20 April 2018
Nginx — the US company behind the open source Nginx load balancer, web server and content caching software that powers most of the world’s highest traffic websites — has opened an office in Australia as part of its push into Asia Pacific.
Australian start-up Fleet Space aims to enable IoT globally
Computerworld Australia 19 April 2018
Adelaide-based startup Fleet Space Technologies is a small company with big ambitions: “to design, build and launch the technology that will become the digital nervous system for our planet, drive a connected world and unlock the next industrial revolution.”
VMware Cloud Foundation coming to Amazon’s Sydney region
Computerworld Australia 12 April 2018
VMware will have VMware Cloud Foundation, the bundle of its three key software products for virtualisation — vSphere, vSAN and NSX — available in AWS’s Sydney region from Q3 of 2018.
Vodafone predicts mobile substitution pain for NBN Co
ITNews 11 April 2018
Vodafone Australia has unveiled a study that claims 39 percent of Australian fixed broadband users could switch to mobile in future, a substitution rate well above NBN Co’s expectations.
TPG could displace Optus, Vodafone within five years
ITNews 10 April 2018
TPG could be Australia’s number two telco in five years and number one within a decade, entrepreneur Bevan Slattery has predicted.
Telstra CEO calls NBN prices ‘unsustainable’
ITNews 09 April 2018
Telstra CEO Andrew Penn has warned of the telco’s inability to continue to absorb increases in NBN wholesale pricing, calling for price regulation “as quickly as possible”.
Optus gives Aussies public 5G preview
Computerworld Australia 06 April 2018
For the next 10 days the Australian public will have its first chance to experience some of the features of 5G: Optus has opened a public 5G demonstration centre in Kurrawa Park at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast that will be run for the duration of the Commonwealth Games.
Swinburne Uni rolls out cloud-based protection against email threats
Computerworld Australia 28 March 2018
Swinburne University of Technology gets some 5.5 million emails a month for students and staff and, says, chief information security officer, Steven Cvetkovic, almost 70 per cent of these are spam, phishing exercises or contain malware.
WA builder JWH blends SugarCRM and Marketo with Boomi
Computerworld Australia 28 March 2018
In many ways JWH Group’s Pep Olivieri faces more challenges than the typical IT manager. JWH has four subsidiary companies — Plunkett Homes, WA Country Builders, Residential Building WA, and Oswald Homes — that compete with each other to build homes for West Australians.
This means the IT manager has to provide services to all four from centralised resources, but make sure that the competitively sensitive information of each is quarantined from the others.
Yahoo Japan picks Apstra intent-based networking for massive data centre fabric
Computerworld Australia 27 March 2018
Apstra, a startup developing intent-based networking technology, has received a significant boost to its fortunes: Yahoo Japan, one of the largest ISPs in Japan, has deployed version 2.0 of Apstra’s AOS operating system for intent-based networking in its multi-vendor production data centre network.
NBN competitors take fight to the air
CRN Magazine April 2018
While controversy continues to rage around the NBN – particularly its connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) based pricing model and claims that services are not delivering the bandwidths advertised – there are, in many areas of Australia, viable alternatives provided by wireless
Adelaide-based Telstra partner Wireless Communications acquired
Computer Reseller News 26 March 2018
Adelaide-based Wireless Communications — one of Telstra’s largest business partner and its 2016 partner of the year — has been acquired by Greg Patten and Dwayne Bonner, owners of Echidna International whose main business is Echidna Pay,
Queensland Local Government Association discontinues IT services provision
Computer Reseller News 23 March 2018
The Local Government Association of Queensland’s (LGAQ) has ceased the provision of IT services to local governments in the state, leaving behind a trail of dead links to web pages that previously provided details of these services.
Intent-based networking has moved from concept to reality, Cisco says
Computerworld Australia 13 March 2018
Intent-based networking is the latest buzzword to emerge from the networking industry, but according to Cisco it’s already moved from concept to reality. It was the dominant theme last week at CiscoLive in Melbourne and underpinned several announcements at the event.
Déjà vu: Cisco goes after SME market
Computerworld Australia 12 March 2018
Cisco ANZ has announced a renewed focus on the small and medium business market, including plans to launch a digital sales channel. The announcement was made by Cisco ANZ VP Ken Boal in his annual ‘State of the Business’ address to journalists at CiscoLive in Melbourne.
Infinidat ramps up ANZ operations
Computerworld Australia 27 February 2018
Israeli storage company Infinidat — which say it offers a revolutionary and highly cost-effective approach to storage — has named Newcastle-based IT services provider Regional IT and New Zealand IT services company Spectrum as its first customers under a revamped approach to the local market that has seen all its original Australian team, and its distributor, replaced.
Nation states driving the cybercrime industry
Computerworld Australia 27 February 2018
There was a “meteoric rise” in the sophistication of cyber attacks in 2017 as a result of techniques developed by well-funded nation states trickling down to the criminal community, according to cyber security company CrowdStrike. Its findings are detailed in its 2018 Global Threat Report: Blurring the Lines Between Statecraft and Tradecraft.
Startup Daisee applies AI to business problems
Computerworld Australia 27 February 2018
Daisee, an Australian startup focussed on applying artificial intelligence to commercial problems has been formally launched after six months in stealth mode, revealing how it has been able to optimise supply chain issues for one of its first customers.
Motorola bringing AI and AR to public safety comms
Computerworld Australia 20 February 2018
Motorola Solutions, the arm of Motorola that focuses on mission critical communications for public safety and heavy industry customers, is working on multiple fronts to enhance the capabilities of its offerings by incorporating artificial intelligence, speech recognition and augmented reality technologies.
Dell Boomi rides the IPaaS wave
Computerworld Australia 08 February 2018
Dell Boomi, Dell’s integration platform as a service offering, is claiming triple digit growth in the Asia Pacific and Japan region on the back of what it says is an increase in hybrid cloud environments requiring organisations to integrate cloud based and on-premises applications.