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The head of a local cloud company says he is delighted that NSW and wider governments are beginning to recognise the importance of local technology companies, not only for improving the range of services available to support Australians, but also because of the added value that could be secured from tax-paying, job-creating local companies who underpin current and future sovereign resilience.

An Australian government has finally handed a whole-of-government cloud deal to a local company, with Canberra-based Vault signing a five-year deal with the NSW Government on Tuesday.

The head of an Australian cloud company says the new arrangement for awarding contracts for hosting of top-secret government data have advantages over the older one where there was a fixed list of companies certified by the Australian Signals Directorate who could cast their hat in the ring and tout for business.

Multinational companies are dominating the Australian hyperscale cloud market, according to research from emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte.

Once again, a federal government cloud contract has been handed on a platter to the American firm Microsoft, without local firms even getting a look in.

Data management specialist Veeam has announced new versions of several of its products at its VeeamON 2020 conference, which is being held as a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

How do You Detect and Respond to Them?

GUEST OPINION By Louis Tague, Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, FireEye: As efforts to adjust to the “new normal” are forcing huge portions of Australians into remote working and outside the relative safety of their employers’ corporate networks, cyber risks have become top-of-mind even for employees who don’t work within security.

How do You Detect and Respond to Them?

GUEST OPINION By Louis Tague, Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, FireEye: As efforts to adjust to the “new normal” are forcing huge portions of Australians into remote working and outside the relative safety of their employers’ corporate networks, cyber risks have become top-of-mind even for employees who don’t work within security.

GPU maker Nvidia has made a slew of announcements at its GTC 2020 event, which was held online rather than in its usual conference format.

AWS has made its new Amazon Kendra search service generally available to customers.

The Digital Transformation Agency claims that data from the government's COVIDSafe app will not be stored in data centres owned by Chinese interests.

Questions have been raised over the fact that the American cloud provider Amazon Web Services, which was given a Federal Government contract to store data collected by the government's COVIDSafe app, is using a data centre in Sydney which is fully owned by a Chinese company.

Amazon Web Services' new Amazon Detective security service is now generally available.

ICT services giant NEC has teamed up with software developers in the fight against the COVID-19 virus pandemic, launching a smartphone app - iQuarantine - a mobile check-in and case management system that allows users to report their location and health status numerous times a day.

ICT and cybersecurity training provider DDLS is transitioning all courses to remote delivery in a move it says will protect the safety of customers and employees amid the escalating COVID-19 situation.

Data analytics vendor Databricks has appointed Ed Lenta as senior vice president and general manager for Asia-Pacific and Japan, and Greg Taylor to the role of regional vice president of Australia and Southeast Asia.

Disaster-recovery-as-a-service provider Zerto has released version 8.0 of its software, featuring integration with Google Cloud, closer integration with the Azure and AWS public platforms, and more innovation with VMware.

An Amazon Web Services engineer left 954MB of data in a GitHub repository, among them personal identity documents and system credentials including passwords.

John Lang, CEO of DDLS

DDLS is one of Australia’s pre-eminent IT training companies, and we are currently experiencing increased growth in demand in cloud-related training and for training on cyber security, a hot topic across the Australian market.

John Lang, CEO of DDLS

SPONSORED NEWS: DDLS is one of Australia’s pre-eminent IT training companies, and we are currently experiencing increased growth in demand in cloud-related training and for training on cyber security, a hot topic across the Australian market.