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Willow named finalist for Microsoft education award for AI use
EduTech

Willow named finalist for Microsoft education award for AI use

Willow is a finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Education Partner of the Year Award, recognised for using AI to optimise campus operations and sustainability.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
Elastic integrates with Azure AI Foundry for real-time monitoring
AI Security

Elastic integrates with Azure AI Foundry for real-time monitoring

Elastic partners with Azure AI Foundry to offer real-time AI monitoring, enabling developers to track performance, costs and compliance in one dashboard.

By Melvin Hipolito • 3 min read • Mon, 3rd Nov 2025

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Oracle expands AI, multi-cloud & local partnerships in ANZ
Multi-cloud

Oracle expands AI, multi-cloud & local partnerships in ANZ

Oracle is broadening its AI and multi-cloud partnerships in Australia and New Zealand, focusing on data sovereignty and sector-specific cloud solutions.

By Sean Mitchell • 6 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
InfoSum unveils Beacons for secure AI-powered data collaboration
Hyperscale

InfoSum unveils Beacons for secure AI-powered data collaboration

InfoSum launches Beacons, a secure AI-ready platform enabling cross-cloud data collaboration with no data movement, adopted by Disney and WPP Media.

By Melania Watson • 4 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
JupiterOne launches CCM platform with AI & graph modelling
Hybrid Cloud

JupiterOne launches CCM platform with AI & graph modelling

JupiterOne launches a graph-based continuous controls monitoring platform using AI to ensure real-time security compliance across multi-cloud and legacy systems.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
Dell unveils PowerProtect upgrades for enhanced cyber resilience
Storage

Dell unveils PowerProtect upgrades for enhanced cyber resilience

Dell upgrades its PowerProtect portfolio with new appliances and cloud features to boost cyber resilience and simplify data backup across edge, core, and cloud.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
Commvault unveils Unity platform for unified multi-cloud data protection
Data Protection

Commvault unveils Unity platform for unified multi-cloud data protection

Commvault launches the Cloud Unity platform, offering centralised, AI-driven data protection across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments for cost efficiency.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 13th Nov 2025
CNCF brings AI discipline to Kubernetes deployments
Virtualisation

CNCF brings AI discipline to Kubernetes deployments

The CNCF has launched a Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to set open standards for deploying AI workloads across platforms.

By Jake MacAndrew • 3 min read • Wed, 12th Nov 2025
Atturra & EncompaaS partner to accelerate agentic AI adoption
Digital Transformation

Atturra & EncompaaS partner to accelerate agentic AI adoption

Atturra and EncompaaS partner to help Australian and NZ firms adopt agentic AI by combining data-prep tech with consulting for real-world deployments.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Tue, 11th Nov 2025
Crossplane graduates CNCF, ranking in top 10% of projects
Virtualisation

Crossplane graduates CNCF, ranking in top 10% of projects

The graduation marks a milestone with widespread enterprise adoption and over 3,000 contributors supporting multi-cloud platform engineering.

By Jake MacAndrew • 3 min read • Tue, 11th Nov 2025
Is OpenAI planning an AI cloud to rival AWS, Azure & Google?
Private Cloud

Is OpenAI planning an AI cloud to rival AWS, Azure & Google?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signalled plans to launch an AI cloud platform, aiming to rival AWS, Azure and Google Cloud in offering computing power.

By Sean Mitchell • 6 min read • Mon, 10th Nov 2025
Avanade unveils suite of Microsoft-powered tools for midmarket firms
Software-as-a-Service

Avanade unveils suite of Microsoft-powered tools for midmarket firms

Avanade launches Microsoft-based tools to help midmarket firms optimise cloud costs, enhance security and improve customer experience with ready-to-deploy solutions.

By Melvin Hipolito • 4 min read • Fri, 7th Nov 2025
Why culture and collaboration matter more than ever in IT partnerships
Hybrid Cloud

Why culture and collaboration matter more than ever in IT partnerships

Australian MSP AC3 builds resilience through decades-long partnerships with vendors like Cisco and Microsoft, ensuring seamless, trusted IT services for clients.

By Andrew Giles • 3 min read • Fri, 7th Nov 2025
Cloud breaches driven by identity failures & process flaws
Malware

Cloud breaches driven by identity failures & process flaws

ReliaQuest reveals identity compromises and process flaws, not zero-day exploits, drive most cloud breaches, with 99% of cloud identities still over-privileged.

By Shannon Williams • 5 min read • Thu, 6th Nov 2025
Snowflake unveils new AI-powered data tools & expands platform
Disaster Recovery

Snowflake unveils new AI-powered data tools & expands platform

Snowflake launches AI-enhanced data tools and expands its platform with Horizon Catalog, Openflow, and Snowflake Postgres for secure, integrated data management.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 5th Nov 2025
Infoblox unveils new Universal DDI features for AI-ready networks
Software-as-a-Service

Infoblox unveils new Universal DDI features for AI-ready networks

Infoblox has enhanced its Universal DDI suite with new AI-ready features, boosting network resilience and management for over 200 firms including Fortune 500s.

By Melvin Hipolito • 4 min read • Tue, 4th Nov 2025
Experts weigh in on security risks of Microsoft Azure outage
Cloud Security

Experts weigh in on security risks of Microsoft Azure outage

Microsoft Azure's outage exposed security risks, disrupting key services used by UK organisations and sparking calls for a diversified, sovereign cloud strategy.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 31st Oct 2025
AvePoint expands Azure protection with IAMCP partnership & new features
Data Protection

AvePoint expands Azure protection with IAMCP partnership & new features

AvePoint enhances Azure data protection, partners globally with IAMCP, and boosts cloud marketplace integration to support rising demand in AI security services.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Oct 2025