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The chief of Australia’s competition watchdog, Rod Sims believes that the most hotly debated issue in competition law around the world is whether ex ante regulation of particular digital platforms is needed.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, ANZ Country Manager, Gigamon:  The cloud is an extremely complex environment. To help ensure that organisations derive maximum advantage out of it, they need to be able to see exactly what’s happening at all times. They need cloud monitoring.

Security vendor Rubrik is offering a $5 million warranty that Rubrik Zero Trust Data Security will, if correctly implemented, be able to recover data affected by a ransomware attack.

IBM today announced the launch of its new Environmental Intelligence Suite to help companies anticipate and respond to climate risks such as flooding and wildfires while providing insights to improve resiliency and meet sustainability goals.

Loyalty program Flybuys has built a new Snowflake-based platform for sharing data between participating retailers.

TIBCO Software has announced new breakthroughs in data integration, laying a foundation for the future of data fabric. This allows companies to assemble an agile data fabric on any cloud platform, unrestricted by siloed data.

Microsoft announced today it is supporting Lifeline, Australia's leading suicide prevention service, to securely analyse and share curated, anonymised data with mental health researchers. The solution was implemented by Microsoft partner, Data Addiction.

GUEST OPINION by Murphy Mathew, APAC solutions engineer, IDeaS:  In general, a typical hotel makes roughly five million pricing decisions every year. The sheer volume of data needed to be gathered, analysed and decided upon means it is not humanly possible for any hotel revenue manager—or team for that matter—to get every decision right, every day. Business intelligence (BI) and machine-learning, automated systems are critical today in attracting guests, maximising profitable opportunities and expediting your hotel’s pandemic recovery.

GUEST OPINION by Derek Cowan, Director of System Engineering APAC at Cohesity:  With an unprecedented level of employees now home-working, and return to offices delayed until 2022 for many, corporate IT must navigate the digital roadblocks created by a highly dispersed team.

GUEST INTERVIEW: In business since 1993, the company says it invented the concept of distributed agile, and knows how to "harness the power of global teams to deliver software excellence at scale," helping clients to "create their own path to digital fluency and to build organisational resilience to navigate the future", and we spoke to Heiko Gerin to learn more.

GUEST INTERVIEW: In business since 1993, the company says it invented the concept of distributed agile, and knows how to "harness the power of global teams to deliver software excellence at scale," helping clients to "create their own path to digital fluency and to build organisational resilience to navigate the future", and we spoke to Heiko Gerin to learn more.

Backup and disaster recovery services company Global Storage has appointed James Mackie as Sales Director.

Guest Opinion: Developers have never been so critical to business innovation and digitisation, in particular when it comes to making sense of a growing number of data sets to deliver flawless web applications.

SolarWinds today announced its SolarWinds DBA xPress product, previously a paid-for tool is now available completely for free. DBA xPress reveals how a data environment is visually structured, helping compare, synchronise, script, and navigate data and schemas.

Cybersecurity vendor Forcepoint today announced Rees Johnson has joined the company as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Johnson will play a critical role as the company continues to deliver its data-first secure access service edge (SASE) solutions, which will enable enterprises and government agencies to protect data wherever it is accessed.

Information technology (IT) channel companies in Australia and New Zealand are cautiously optimistic as they refocus on growth opportunities in 2021 and beyond after the unprecedented events of 2020, according to new research from non-profit tech industry trade association CompTIA,

Merchant payment platform provider mx51 has adopted the Snowflake data platform to support its analytics and customer service activities.

GUEST OPINION by Craig Somerville, Managing Director and CEO, Somerville:  The benefits offered by the adoption of cloud computing are now well understood, however many IT managers are still struggling to put a clear migration strategy in place.

Ransomware is the highest-profile type of malware attack at present: from oil pipelines to healthcare and food processing, ransomware infiltrates a diverse variety of industries, and no sector is left unharmed.

GUEST OPINION by Fleming Shi, Chief Technology Officer, Barracuda: With remote working now the norm for many organisations, security is topping the list of concerns for Australian CIOs.