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GUEST OPINION by Eyal Arazi, Radware: Migrating workloads to public cloud environment opens up organisations to a slate of new, cloud-native attack vectors which did not exist in the world of premise-based data centres.

Marketing automation company, TaguchiMarketing, has established an Australian data centre in response to what it says is increasing concerns by government and company boards about data sovereignty and compliance.

Macquarie Telecom Group has suffered a 17.5% drop in net profit for the full year 2020, despite increasing revenue by 8% to $266.2 million for the year.

Data centre provider NEXTDC is partnering with networking systems, services and software company Ciena to deploy Ciena’s Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) platform to connect its data centres and provide cloud and computing services to support its customers across Australia.

GUEST OPINION by Budd Ilic, ANZ Country Manager, Zscaler:  Implemented with little warning amid the viral pandemic, remote working is likely to remain a fixture within government departments and agencies in the months and years ahead. The problem is that many are alarmingly underprepared for the change.

Data centres service provider DCI Data Centers has appointed Verghese Jacob as Chief Technology Officer and member of its executive leadership team.

Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom has secured a deal with Australian gas supplier Supagas, to provide VoIP, SD-WAN, NBN, mobile and data centre services aimed at helping accelerate the company’s cloud migration.

Data centre operator NextDC has formally opened its new P2 data centre in Perth.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the landing license of international bandwidth provider Southern Cross Cable Network’s NEXT cable system.

Energy retailer Origin Energy has chosen Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider in a move aimed at driving its digital transformation and to improve overall customer experience.

Data centre networks provider Leading Edge Data Centres has begun work on a $19.6 million project to upgrade digital infrastructure in the Newcastle and Hunter regions of New South Wales as part of a wider roll-out of its tier-3 edge data centre network across the State.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Bitglass, the next-gen cloud security company, has announced the introduction of local edge data centres in Melbourne and Perth.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Bitglass, the next-gen cloud security company, has announced the introduction of local edge data centres in Melbourne and Perth.

Australian IT professionals potentially have greater concerns about the security of company financials and intellectual property than the global average, according to a new global study which found that Australian respondents appear nearly 4.5 times more concerned about these areas of security than their home security, compared to the 3 times global response.

Pre-fabricated modular data centre company DXN has announced a new partnership with specialist IT solutions and service provider Astron Technology.

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

GUEST OPINION* by Nicholas Hollings, Principal Solution Architect Equinix

There are significant challenges for enterprises on the way to digital transformation, with enterprise IT refresh cycles and budget constraints partly to blame. Another restricting factor is that there’s clearly a need to get everyone on the same page about the meaning of digital transformation and what it offers for different organisations.

GUEST OPINION* by Nicholas Hollings, Principal Solution Architect Equinix

There are significant challenges for enterprises on the way to digital transformation, with enterprise IT refresh cycles and budget constraints partly to blame. Another restricting factor is that there’s clearly a need to get everyone on the same page about the meaning of digital transformation and what it offers for different organisations.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: In response to increasingly cloud-based and mobile workforces, a new security concept has emerged: SASE – the Secure Access Service Edge.

RSP Aussie Broadband has begun building a $1.8 million fibre network.