Sydney and Melbourne rank in the top 15 cities globally in a gender-specific study conducted by Dell Technologies that looks at a city’s ability to foster the growth of women-owned businesses.

SmartGate, the automated passport control system used in Australia's international airports appears to have suffered an outage, leading to a huge build-up of passengers both exiting and entering the country.

Global data centre operator Equinix is collaborating with IBM Cloud in Melbourne — and other cities — in a move it says will help enterprises accelerate hybrid cloud deployments.