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GUEST OPINION:  From the boardroom to the back office, business leaders are racing to adopt AI, but many are overlooking a dangerous truth: the very digital infrastructure they’ve built from the last two decades of digital growth is now holding them back.

Organisations across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are investing in generative AI at higher rates than their global counterparts, but more often experience cost blow outs when it comes to staffing these initiatives.  

• 32% of ANZ organisations are putting more than a quarter of their tech budget for the next 12 months toward generative AI (versus 25% globally).
• ANZ respondents have seen a 44% return on their AI investments. Compared to the global average, organisations in ANZ were more likely to cite enhancing customer satisfaction as a key goal for their AI initiatives (53% versus 43%), and less likely to prioritise internal-facing projects (47% versus 55%).
• The cost of staffing for generative AI in ANZ was more often higher than expected (63% in ANZ versus 48% globally).

GUEST INTERVIEW: With this week’s announcement by Riverbed of a number of significant updates to its observability platform, ITWire spoke with Phil Lenton, the company’s Head of Product Management for SaaS services and AIOPs, to unpack the new solutions.

Joint customers like Forbes and Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut can now drive more efficiency for their Google Cloud environments with expanded BigQuery monitoring and six more recently announced features.  Datadog was also named a Google Cloud Partner of the Year for the third year in a row.

In its ongoing commitment to deliver comprehensive cyber resiliency, Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) announces upcoming capabilities designed to help ensure Google Cloud customers can quickly recover their business from a cyberattack or operational disruption. 

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  Enhanced scalability and AI-powered insights from Dynatrace Grail empower organisations to unify observability, optimize operations, and accelerate innovation

As consumers increasingly expect greater personalisation and digital-first experiences, major retailers and consumer goods brands across Australia and New Zealand are turning to Snowflake to deliver on these expectations. 

An AI-driven solution from Celonis has unlocked significant value in just two months in inventory management for leading global paper and packing giant Smurfit Westrock.

In Australia’s rapidly evolving landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) remains a double-edged sword: while it transforms businesses by automating tasks and fuelling innovation, concerns over data management and security continue to grow. According to a global report by McKinsey, AI cybersecurity risks are among the top concerns for employees and leaders. With data increasingly flowing across complex AI ecosystems, World Backup Day and World Cloud Security Day serve as timely reminders for businesses to review how they secure and govern their data.

Milestone Systems is pleased to announce the acquisition of brighter AI.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Generative AI scraper bots target websites 24 hours a day with up to half a million requests for information, according to the latest Barracuda detection data. In a new report, Barracuda threat analysts highlight the relentless behavior of generative AI (Gen AI) bots, which form part of an emerging category that Barracuda calls “gray bots”. Gray bots are automated programs that are not overtly malicious but which trawl the internet with the aim of extracting information from websites and other web applications.

OpenText, introduced the availability of Project Titanium X, now ready with Cloud Editions 25.2 (CE 25.2), the culmination of two years of strategic engineering powering the next generation of Business Clouds, Business AI and Business Technology.  

Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation, today presents the 32nd edition of the Technology Radar. The biannual report is built on Thoughtworks’ frontline experiences solving its clients’ most complex business challenges.

In a groundbreaking move to redefine cyber resilience, Commvault and SimSpace have unveiled the Commvault Recovery Range, a first-of-its-kind cyber range that seamlessly integrates real-world attack simulations with end-to-end recovery exercises. This pioneering solution empowers security professionals to experience, respond to, and recover from sophisticated cyberattacks in a high-fidelity environment that mirrors actual production systems.

Across the globe, connectivity demands are surging. In New Zealand, this demand for more bandwidth connectivity is not waning with data use continuing to skyrocket and the number of internet users increasing each year.

New generative AI-powered features boost developer productivity, accelerate enterprise integration and unlock insights to drive faster, more reliable AI outcomes

• Autodesk introduces new scan-to-mesh capabilities to enhance sustainable building practices such as retrofitting existing buildings and adaptive reuse projects.
• Additional updates to the AECO portfolio deliver performance enhancements to core products and help teams streamline complex models.

Users of Microsoft Fabric, the global giant’s analytics platform, will have significantly increased AI capability with the addition of Celonis’ Process Intelligence platform.

AI is on everyone's roadmap, and trusted, proven partners are vital to seeing successful projects. While much of the tech is new, it's players like Konica Minolta who bring unparalleled decades and decades of strength in extracting meaning and value outof unstructured documents.

Hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI provider Australia and New Zealand Cloudera has announced the appointment of Leo Brunnick as Chief Product Officer.