Australian Stories

Multi-cloud

Banking on success with a multi-cloud approach

Australia's banks must adopt a multi-cloud approach to keep up with innovation and deliver better customer experiences.

By Lawrence Crowther • 4 min read • Wed, 8th Aug 2018

Global Stories

DevOps

Cloud adoption: How do Australia & New Zealand stack up?

Cloud adoption rates vary globally, with Australia and New Zealand leading the way, while Germany remains risk-averse.

By Lee Atchison • 4 min read • Tue, 16th Oct 2018

Hyperscale

NEXTDC and Alibaba Cloud cosy up to open Asia for AU

NEXTDC partners with Alibaba Cloud to provide Australian firms access to China's largest public cloud, enhancing connectivity across Asia-Pacific.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 10th Oct 2018

Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks to expand cloud security capabilities with RedLock acquisition

The acquisition is expected to close during Palo Alto Networks fiscal first quarter, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 4th Oct 2018

Multi-cloud

Flexera acquires multi-cloud management provider, RightScale

Flexera has acquired multi-cloud management leader RightScale, bolstering its technology asset management offering.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 28th Sep 2018

Public Cloud

Rackspace becomes Google Cloud's first ANZ MSP

As Google Cloud's popularity has been steadily climbing across the region, Google has named their first ANZ MSP.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Tue, 25th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Teraco: Digital transformation will be defined by the race to the edge

Edge computing is undoubtedly one of the buzzwords of choice within data centre circles at the moment – up there with AI, IoT, and gender imbalances.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 13th Sep 2018

Distributed Denial of Service

Azure platform exploited the most for DDoS attacks – report

Research found a 35% increase DDoS attacks using public cloud server-based botnets from the previous 12 months.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Wed, 12th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Automation Anywhere supports all four major cloud providers

Automation Anywhere Enterprise now supports Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 6th Sep 2018

Hyperscale

Profits down but revenue & CAPEX up as NEXTDC eyes the future

There may be less money to play with but the company had a very busy year with a series of new data centre launches revenues rising 31 percent.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 1st Sep 2018

Unified Communications

Adobe announces open platform for Experience Design

Adobe XD opens its platform for custom plugins, integrating with Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Jira, and launches a $10 million fund to spur design innovation.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Wed, 29th Aug 2018

Network Infrastructure

Dell EMC continues to ramp up cloud-enabled portfolio

It is boosting the cloud capabilities of platforms, infrastructure solutions, consumption model and services to help customers leverage multi-cloud st.

By Ben Moore • 5 min read • Tue, 28th Aug 2018

Partner Programmes

Service providers must act now to stay relevant in a cloud-first world

Gartner says if the majority of providers don't act now, in five year's time 75 percent of today's IT service providers will become irrelevant.

By Rene Buest • 2 min read • Thu, 23rd Aug 2018

Unified Communications

The Warehouse's mobile app now uses AI to help 'Snap and Shop'

The Warehouse has dipped its toes into neural networking and artificial intelligence to make it easier for customers to 'Snap and Shop'.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Thu, 16th Aug 2018

Customer Relationship Management

Former Google exec joins HubSpot as APAC managing director

HubSpot appoints former Google Cloud leader Shahid Nizami as managing director for Asia Pacific. He will be based in Singapore.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 16th Aug 2018

Hyperscale

Interxion and Google partner to offer direct GCP connectivity

Interxion is adding to its lineup of cloud providers with new dedicated access to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) across its Europe footprint.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Wed, 15th Aug 2018

Gaming

Foundation for open media software development launched

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation launched the Academy Software Foundation with Weta Workshop as a founding member.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Mon, 13th Aug 2018