Australian-born AWS specialist Versent has made several senior appointments in its Singapore operation.

Google Cloud and Databricks are working together to make the Databricks data platform available in containers on Google Cloud.

Indian IT services outsourcing company Tata Consultancy Services is partnering with Australian energy company AGL to deliver an organisation-wide cloud transformation program for AGL.

Australian-listed energy company AGL Energy is leveraging technology from unified communications vendor Avaya to enable its office-based contact centre agents to work remotely from home in response to the COVID 19 crisis.

The whole point of making changes to the H-1B visa system is so that Indian outsourcing companies are deprived of the visas and American companies can use them instead, according to a veteran US tech journalist.

US technology companies that employ foreigners on H-1B visas will find it more difficult to obtain renewals of these visas after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services tightened the procedure for renewal.

TestPlant, the maker of the eggPlant range of software quality tools, has delivered a test automation solution that has been deployed across the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's mobile applications and Web-based systems.

Qantas has taken another major step in moving its IT to an outsourced Software-as-a-service model. It is a major component of the airline’s cost cutting strategy and IBM is the big loser while Macquarie Telecom has come up trumps.