Equinix says digital leaders leverage “cloud precipitation” to optimise on-premises and cloud-native deployment costs at scale via hybrid environments.

GUEST OPINION by Helen Langton, CEO APAC and Middle East, International Compliance Association:  What challenges and opportunities does artificial intelligence (AI) present and how can risk and compliance practitioners best respond to these?

GUEST OPINION: Today, we are witnessing a significant shift in organisations’ technology priorities as digital transformation continues to take a quantum leap with a greater portion of business processes, applications and data, now moving to the cloud.

GUEST OPINION: Today, we are witnessing a significant shift in organisations’ technology priorities as digital transformation continues to take a quantum leap with a greater portion of business processes, applications and data, now moving to the cloud.

After a rocky year, 2020 finally ended with some good news: that Australia’s unemployment rate had fallen from a high of 7.5% in July 2020 to 6.6% in December 2020, but what does this mean for JobKeeper?

GUEST OPINION: As the new year unfolds and companies initiate their plans and execution for ‘the new normal’, a topic of discussion from a past customer advisory meeting has become much more critical.

GUEST OPINION: The unprecedented events of 2020 had a profound impact on industrial enterprises worldwide, forcing companies to rapidly pivot to a distributed workforce model. This sudden shift significantly increased reliance on remote-access connections, while accelerating digital transformation and making strong, purpose-built industrial cybersecurity increasingly essential.

GUEST OPINION: Debt, competition, and tech demand at the same price are collectively putting telecom providers in a tough spot. As 5G network installations spread, so do the consumer demands for phones that operate on their networks—save for a few conspiracy theorists. With telecom companies feeling they're falling out of favour with many investors, now is the time for telecoms to reconsider their digital infrastructures.

GUEST OPINION: Reports suggest that cyber criminals have been more active than ever during the global pandemic, seeing the state of general upheaval as an opportunity to evolve and find new attack vectors.

GUEST OPINION: Nine months since the COVID-19 outbreak was formally declared a pandemic, with close to 50 million individuals infected, and the global economy experiencing its worst recession since the Second World War, the impact and associated costs of a healthcare crisis cannot be underestimated.

GUEST OPINION: In 2020, the world experienced a cosmic shift in how we live and work, and the infosec industry was no different. Publicly trusted TLS/SSL certificate lifetimes were reduced to one-year, making automation and sophisticated management tools more important than ever.

GUEST OPINION by Brendan Maree, Vice President Asia Pacific at 8x8: As Australia emerges from its COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, businesses are coming to terms with how they will need to operate under ‘new normal’ conditions.