| Today on iTWire | This 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 Australian 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… 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 aged, right up to the factory of the future… 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... This Morning Super: Nova Plus from Huawei arrives in Australia Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Huawei’s latest mid-range marvel has landed in Australia, from its new Nova family of Android-powered smartphones. Read more... Hip hop group Hilltop Hoods, Google Play team up on cancer funding initiative Written by Peter Dinham Australian hip hop music group Hilltop Hoods has teamed up with Google Play to create an interactive film - for use on smartphones - for… Read more... NCI selects Xenon solution to help boost computational capacity Written by Peter Dinham The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) has selected high performance computing solutions provider Xenon Systems to supply a Lenovo NeXtScale system as an extension of Raijin,… Read more... Dropsuite delays closure of $8m capital raising Written by Peter Dinham Singapore-based backup and recovery vendor Dropsuite has extended its $8 million capital raising by two weeks ahead of its ASX listing now scheduled for mid-December. Read more... ATO scam – fake emails again Written by Ray Shaw Cyber criminals always search for the motherload – phishing emails that get through. This time they have targeted small to medium businesses that that lodge… Read more... Michael Page recruitment data leak lists millions of jobseeker details Written by David M Williams Global recruitment firm Michael Page leaked 30Gb of job seeker private contact, employment and salary information, in a repeat of the very same circumstances that… Read more... Keeping the live-patching process going Written by Sam Varghese The spirit of co-operation that exists at SUSE Linux, as opposed to that of competition, is what has kept Libor Pecháček plugging away for a… Read more... SUSE's Asia focus grows under new owners Written by Sam Varghese With the acquisition of SUSE Linux in 2014 by the British mainframe group Micro Focus, a great deal of attention has been focused on the… Read more... openSUSE community Linux moves ahead of Fedora Written by Sam Varghese openSUSE, the community Linux distribution of the SUSE Linux company, has about 600,000 users judging by the number who access repositories each month for downloads,… Read more... SUSE first enterprise Linux to be ported to 64-bit ARM Written by Sam Varghese Five years ago, four developers at SUSE Linux sat down to discuss an idea they thought had considerable merit: porting SUSE Linux to the ARM… Read more... Samsung’s S8 must be better than excellent Written by Ray Shaw We all know the trouble Samsung has seen over its short-lived but incredible Note7 with an optional cigarette lighter. When will it learn, smoking, especially… Read more... Google Android Nougat updates – who, what, and when. Written by Ray Shaw LG was the first to ship a phone with Android Nougat – its amazing new V20. It even beat Google’s Pixel to the punch. Read more... Fake shopping apps emptying Apple Wallets this season Written by Ray Shaw Fake shopping apps have surfaced in Apple’s App Store. These apps look legitimate and even use legitimate payment systems to empty your e-wallet. Read more... Deja-VRu? Qantas makes Virtual Australia app for actual future visitors Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt Australia’s major airline, Qantas has launched a new app – Qantas VR - giving customers an interactive new way to discover and explore destinations before… Read more... Google gets tough with Android fragmentation Written by Ray Shaw Ever since Androids release in 2007 it has suffered horribly from growing fragmentation – different versions on tens of thousands of different devices – and… 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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