NETWORK WORLD, 21 February, 2017 – The public cloud just keeps on growing, with increases in spending on cloud services and infrastructure easily outpacing overall IT spending. And it isn’t even close. The latest update to International Data Corporation’s Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide projects worldwide investments in the public cloud “will reach […]
Read moreITNEWS, 13 February, 2017 – Australia will have a mandatory data breach notification scheme in place within the year after several aborted attempts, following the passage of legislation through the senate today. The Labor and Liberal parties today united to pass the government’s Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 into law. Learn what the […]
Read moreITNEWS, 8 November, 2016 – NBN Co has passed a milestone for premises connected to its fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-basement networks, with more than 1 million homes and business now able to take up a service. At its first quarter results briefing today, NBN Co revealed it had passed 338,000 total premises during the three-month period, and welcomed 280,000 […]
Read moreITWIRE, 25 October, 2016 – Growth in the software and IT services market is driving up IT spending in Australia to a forecast total spend of almost $85 billion in 2017 on the back of organisations undertaking major digital platform transformations. According to Gartner, the forecast figure of $85 billion (A$) represents a 2.8% increase in […]
Read moreITNEWS, 21 October, 2016 – NBN Co has revealed it is looking beyond its government mandate to create an internet of things (IoT) business, connecting “non-premises infrastructure” like traffic lights and potentially offering wholesale compute and storage services. Principal technology officer for FTTx Daniel Willis told the Broadband World Forum in London overnight that NBN Co was […]
Read moreITNEWS, 14 October, 2016 – Adelaide City Council wants to lay up to 100km of fibre optic cable through its CBD in the hope that a dedicated high-speed network for businesses will lure big organisations back to its streets. The council has resolved to go ahead with a full business case into the viability of […]
Read moreFORBES, 22 September, 2016 – IDC just released the results of its 3rd annual survey of IoT decision-makers. The IoT market is maturing, says IDC, going beyond its initial focus on connecting more and more things. Data management is fast becoming the overarching theme, with Analytics and the IoT Platform emerging as the main requirements […]
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In its initial phase, all of the internet’s IP addresses were assigned to computers of one sort or another. Some of these were servers, and a growing number were clients that mostly consumed (but could sometimes modify) content on those servers. As the internet — and in due course the worldwide web — developed, more […]
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SYDNEY, 18 January, 2016 – Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) – a global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions – today announced that Melbourne-based Acurus was named its ‘Top 2105 Enhanced Technology Partner’ of the year for the Asia Pacific region. This year’s award ceremony was held last week at the company’s Global Partner Conference in Cancun, Mexico. […]
Read moreCOMPUTERWORLD, July, 2016 – The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has pushed ahead with opening up so-called ‘superfast’ broadband (25 megabits per second or faster) networks, forcing network operators to allow other telcos to sell services over their infrastructure. Both TPG’s fibre to the basement (FTTB) network and Telstra’s residential fibre networks in South Brisbane are […]
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