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GUEST OPINION:  In 2024, citizens will want transacting with government agencies to be as easy as placing an order with Amazon says Max Howells, Nintex Director ANZ – Sales

When Australian comprehensive social archiving platform Brolly began hitting scalability challenges it turned to the open-source cloud data platform company Aiven, allowing Brolly to meet the challenges and size of all its customer needs without downtime.

Is some of the rise in employment because employers must now enlarge workforces to off-set the massive drop in productivity caused by working from home?

Executive demand in Australia has “charged to a record high”, climbing 8 per cent in February, according to the E.L.Consult Executive Demand Index.

Spending on semiconductors by the world's top 10 OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) fell by 7.6% year-on-year in 2022, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding these companies accounted for 37.2% of the market.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Owl Labs, a truly immersive technology, has launched its collaborative technology in Australia, and the tech is impressive, affordable and very hybrid work environment friendly!

GUEST INTERVIEW: Owl Labs, a truly immersive technology, has launched its collaborative technology in Australia, and the tech is impressive, affordable and very hybrid work environment friendly!

GUEST OPINION: Hybrid IT and the cloud is enabling a digital transformation of how we work and how business is run. In this webinar wrap, Digital Realty canvases what this future will look like – and whether cloud is always the right decision.

Understanding how Covid has changed the way businesses deal with their suppliers will be key to winning and keeping business in 2022, writes Marcus McNamara, Head of APAC, Sana Commerce:  It’s been two years since the virus up-ended life as we knew it, here in Australia and around the world. Businesses have been on a tumultuous journey since that time, with many forced to abandon long standing processes and practices and embrace new ones. Pivoting to digital has been the common theme, with enterprises turning to online platforms and programs to maintain business continuity and interact with their suppliers and customers.

COMPANY NEWS: NetApp recently announced new additions, security upgrades and enhanced capabilities across its hybrid cloud portfolio to help organisations modernise their IT infrastructure, and to accelerate digital transformation, which makes it simpler for enterprises to put their data to work, whenever and wherever they need it - so what are the details? Dhruv gets in the groove to explain it all.

COMPANY NEWS: NetApp recently announced new additions, security upgrades and enhanced capabilities across its hybrid cloud portfolio to help organisations modernise their IT infrastructure, and to accelerate digital transformation, which makes it simpler for enterprises to put their data to work, whenever and wherever they need it - so what are the details? Dhruv gets in the groove to explain it all.

GUEST OPINION: Battered and bruised from the harsh realities of COVID lockdowns, Australian businesses are looking forward to what they hope will be a much better year ahead.

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped drive rapid growth in Australians' online activity, increasing data downloads and heightening demand for high-speed internet plans, according to recently released research from the ACMA.

During COVID-19 lockdowns across the world we saw many new examples of mobile technology used within the health sector, including innumerable amounts of people using telehealth for the first time.

Travel is no longer what it was due to COVID-19 regulations, but with tip-based live-streaming platform Heygo, anyone with an internet connection can travel the world from home.

GUEST OPINION: “QR codes – those curious patterned diagrams we hover over at the front of shops – are here to stay in Australia but they are about to get a whole lot more interesting,” says Matt Barr, Chief Product Officer, eftpos.

London's Daily Mail does not normally receive praise for the journalism it produces, but it has recently been lauded by an unlikely source: the Conti ransomware gang.

Facebook has cited the privacy rule changes made by Apple in April for the uncertain outlook it faces in the fourth quarter, after the company released third-quarter results on Monday.

GUEST INTERVIEW: We live in a time of cyber war, with businesses under constant attack, with ransomware running riot, with COVID providing chaos and cover for cyber criminals to extort and blackmail, but the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.

GUEST INTERVIEW: We live in a time of cyber war, with businesses under constant attack, with ransomware running riot, with COVID providing chaos and cover for cyber criminals to extort and blackmail, but the bad guys aren't the only ones on the playing field: Secureworks and other security firms are working hard to fight back to keep businesses and individuals protected.

The Vital Monitoring System or VMS, co-developed by Deakin University, the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI), and SaniteX Global, is working with Samsung’s Galaxy Watch4 and its ability to monitor vital symptoms so that frontline workers and the wider workforce can safely return to work with a convenient COVID health screening solution.