| Today on iTWire | This Morning Vocus board backs $3.5b takeover offer from Macquarie-led consortium By Sam Varghese The Vocus Group board has recommended that its shareholders accept an offer Macquarie’s infrastructure fund and Aware Super to acquire the company at a valuation… Read more... Dicker Data opens new $74m headquarters, celebrates great FY20 results By Alex Zaharov-Reutt A top Australian distributor over more than 42 years of hardware, software, cloud and emerging technologies, Dicker Data, has announced the opening of its landmark… Read more... Video Interview Part 3: Peter Coroneos and Patrick Fair talk Australia's mandatory data retention laws By Alex Zaharov-Reutt This is part three of a three part video series and discussion on Australia's cybersecurity legislation, looking at the Federal Australian Government’s mandatory data retention… Read more... RØDE releases its next-gen, ultra-compact, truly wireless microphone: reborn for 2021! By Alex Zaharov-Reutt The RØDE Wireless GO II is the company's new ultra-compact and extremely versatile dual channel wireless microphone system, with the same pocket-sized form factor and… Read more... Ewan and Quayle join local WFS sales team By Stephen Withers Workforce management software provider WFS has hired two new senior sales staff. Read more... Local video interviewing specialist falls into overseas hands By Stephen Withers Australian-based on-demand video interviewing platform Alcami Interactive has been acquired by US-based SaaS people analytics platform Criteria. Read more... Infor and C3 AI team up to add more AI to ERP By Stephen Withers Cloud ERP specialist Infor and enterprise AI provider C3 AI have formed a strategic alliance to provide Infor customers with prebuilt C3 AI capabilities, extending… Read more... Department of Health picks HealthEngine for Covid-19 vaccination bookings By Stephen Withers The Australian Government Department of Health has selected local health booking provider HealthEngine to build the booking platform for the COVID-19 Vaccination Information and Booking… Read more... Fujitsu inks three-year Defence contract to deliver ICT services By Peter Dinham Japanese ICT giant Fujitsu has signed a three-year contract with the Australian Department of Defence to uplift and modernise Defence’s existing and planned future ICT… Read more... Upcoming Webinars Live Webinar: Flexible IT Innovation: Taking A Data-Driven Approach To Scale And Complexity Live Webinar: Hitachi Vantara and Innovatus Media would like to invite you to join the digital discussion on "Building the Right Channel Ecosystem" Read more... WEBINAR INVITE: Zebra's 'Retail Shopper Experience in a post-COVID world', 12PM AEDT March 17 2021 Zebra is also holding a free webinar with the topic of the Retail Shopper Experience in a post COVID world at 12pm AEDT March 17,… Read more... Reimagining Midrange Storage for Business Resilience and Success in the Digital-era WEBINAR WATCH NOW: IDC & Hitachi Vantara Reimagining Midrange Storage Read more... HPE and SUSE 25+ year alliance sees open source, open collaboration and mission-critical innovation WEBINAR INVITATION: Alliance partners for decades with finely tuned hardware and software, HPE and SUSE are discussing "Modernising Your Mission-Critical Workloads: Risk, Scale & Performance"… Read more... WATCH REPLAY: ASCCA's Living Your Best Online Life Conference 2020 ASCCA is the Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association, and the replay of the 2020 Living Your Best Online Life conference can be seen here now! Read more... Synology® 2021 AND BEYOND, Coming Soon EVENT INVITE: The countdown has begun for Synology’s annual event, where Synology announces the latest development on our data management solutions and more. Last year,… Read more... CONFERENCE INVITE: Autodesk University 2020, Nov 18-20, reimagine what's possible Starting on the 17th for those in the Northern Hemisphere, and the 18th for us in the Southern Hemisphere, the online Autodesk University 2020 event… Read more... WEBINAR INVITE: Dr Jon Gray hosting live Data Governance Nov 19 at 1pm AEDT, see video Dr Jonathan Gray, the CEO and Chief Data Scientist at Catapult BI will present a free 30 minute webinar on Data Governance and its importance… Read more... VIRTUAL TECH SUMMIT INVITE: How to navigate towards business resiliency Globally, technology leaders had their 2020 plans interrupted with the year’s massive economic disruption. Those embarking on transformation journeys either had to accelerate with tightened… Read more... WEBINAR INVITE, 2 Dec: BMC increases global SaaS delivery with expanded AWS availability FREE WEBINAR: Increased availability of BMC Helix now available with expanded AWS availability zones, including Australia Read more... Vendor News Barracuda Email Threat Scanner Detects Millions of Attacks Missed By Organisations’ existing protection Highlights: · In 2020, 4,550 organisations used Barracuda Email Threat Scanner to scan 2,600,531 unique mailboxes and found 2,029,413 unique attacks. · On average, 512… Read more... Boab AI announces first cohort of Australian AI Scale Ups and Launch of $100m Fund COMPANY NEWS: Artificial Intelligence scale up program, Boab AI, has announced the launch of its first cohort of companies and the commencement of its $100m… Read more... Sumitomo Life Insurance Selects Talend to Build Company’s Data Infrastructure Leading life insurer uses Talend in data lake environment for data analytics COMPANY NEWS: Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in data integration and data… Read more... Twilio Segment Releases 2021 CDP Report, A Look at How Pandemic-Driven Digital Acceleration Ushered the Industry into a New Era Report finds that companies have significantly invested in building out their tech stacks to accelerate digitisation and adapt to a multi-channel customer journey By the… Read more... 8x8 Integrated Cloud Contact Center and Communications Driving Global Channel Momentum 8x8 Open Channel Program Helps Partners Meet Strong Upmarket, Enterprise and Public Sector Demand for Cloud Solutions COMPANY NEWS: 8x8 Inc( NYSE: EGHT), a leading… Read more... 100% of customers recommend Snowflake for fourth consecutive year in Dresner Advisory Services ADI report Company News: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced Snowflake received a perfect recommend score in the 2021 Wisdom of Crowds Analytical Data Infrastructure (ADI)… Read more... |
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