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GUEST OPINION: Back in the early years of the twenty-first century, the role of IT teams was very different from what it is today.

Cloud giant AWS's Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now generally available, with Graviton3 processors that deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton2-powered C6g instances.

Financial service provider Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has migrated its infrastructure to the cloud using AWS’ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, which provides compute capacity for any workload.

COMPANY NEWS: Sysdig, the unified container and cloud security leader, announced that Sysdig open source, the incident response standard for containers, has been extended to the cloud. Using system calls, Sysdig open source traditionally offers deep observability into running applications, as well as file system access and network activity, which speeds incident response and troubleshooting. Teams can quickly filter information from Sysdig OSS and take action. With the announcement of this new integration, these capabilities have been extended beyond containers to any cloud environment.

Infrastructure software provider Progress has released Progress Chef Cloud Security, which provides DevSecOps teams with end-to-end management of all on premise, cloud and native cloud resources, as well as helping keep native cloud assets in compliance with policies.

Broad-based technology and services provider Dell Technologies has announced more than 500 storage software changes that it says improve intelligence, automation, data mobility and security across clouds, on-premises and edge environments – all at no additional cost to existing customers.

Technology consultancy Cevo has appointed Garry Asprey-Sharman to the newly created role of dedicated partnerships manager.

Dell Technologies has made multiple storage-related announcements, including services to help organisations recover from ransomware attacks, and allowing them to use on-premises data with cloud-based SaaS.

Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has appointed Les Williamson to the role of ANZ managing director.

Random numbers are needed in a variety of endeavours. Traditionally, pseudo-random numbers generated via a mathematical process are used instead, but the Australian National University's ANU Quantum Numbers uses quantum technology to rapidly generate true random numbers.

COMPANY NEWS:  Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, today announced the appointment of Shane Buckley as president and CEO, effective immediately. 

Cloud provider Amazon Web Services and the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency have renewed and extended their whole-of-government agreement.

Electricity distribution network Endeavour Energy conducted its first on-site inspection using a combination of 5G, cloud, artificial intelligence, drone technology, and ultra-high-definition cameras.

COMPANY NEWS: Software intelligence company Dynatrace today announced an expanded strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). As part of this, Dynatrace will work with AWS to align on new product and solution development and enhance their go-to-market partnership with joint activities such as events, sponsorships, and customer solutions workshops. As a result, organisations around the world will benefit from easier access to the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform through the AWS Marketplace, so they can deliver flawless and secure digital experiences.

Network detection and response specialist ExtraHop has extended Reveal(x) 360 to provide greater threat visibility for Amazon Web Services.

Data cloud specialist Snowflake has launched its Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud, said to be a single, integrated, and cross-cloud data platform that eliminates technical and institutional data silos.

The need for digital skills became more pronounced during the pandemic with 81% of workers surveyed in Australia reporting they need more skills to cope with changes in their jobs due to the pandemic, according to Amazon Web Services research report.

French cloud provider OVHcloud and two other European companies have filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft in Europe.

As part of its efforts to boost sustainability and reduce carbon emissions, Amazon launches its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, which helps customers and organisations meet their sustainability cost.

COMPANY NEWS: Dubber, a leading global solution provider of unified call recording and conversational intelligence today launched Dubber PCI Comply for Amazon Connect. Dubber PCI Comply offers any business seeking to process credit card information a cost-effective and easy to deploy cloud-native solution to achieve efficient PCI DSS compliance for any communication modality on Amazon Connect, including contact centre, voice, IVR, and chat.