Displaying items by tag: ESG

GUEST OPINION:  The emergence of Chinese AI start-ups such as DeepSeek and a review of Australia’s own sovereign AI and cybersecurity capabilities are gaining more political attention in the lead up to this year’s federal election.

Australian mining, oil and gas, and new energy services provider also slashes Azure costs with Macquarie Telecom hybrid cloud as it expands into emerging markets

GUEST OPINION:  Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations rapidly reshape the global business environment. This region's organisations face increasing pressure to demonstrate their commitment to sustainable practices, ethical governance and societal impact. At the intersection of these priorities, procurement is vital in steering organisations toward more sustainable and socially responsible operations. 

GUEST RESEARCH: For the second year running, more than 600 visionary procurement leaders from organisations across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) have come together to discuss the future of procurement for a comprehensive research report. The study  'Future-Focused Procurement: The Rise of ESG,' tracks evolving perspectives and industry changes, explicitly focusing on ESG, an increasingly significant requirement for procurement leaders.

GUEST RESEARCH: Infoblox, a leader in cloud networking and security services, has revealed that APAC organisations are sharply divided in terms of their hybrid, multi-cloud maturity level, with more mature organisations gaining significant benefits from their advanced posture. Commissioned by Infoblox, the report named The State of Hybrid, Multi-cloud Management Maturity in APAC by Enterprise Strategy Group compares APAC organisations’ hybrid, multi-cloud maturity against the rest of the world.

COMPANY NEWS: Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) to simplify management of container-based modern applications using Kubernetes. NKP enables customers to innovate faster with a complete, CNCF-compliant cloud native stack that gives Platform Engineering teams a consistent operating model for securely managing Kubernetes clusters across on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud environments. This can help customers deploy more cloud native and containerised applications that can ultimately run anywhere.

COMPANY NEWS: BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity company that illuminates, validates, and remediates internal and external risk, today announced the release of its AI-driven Supply Chain Defence Business Risk Monitoring.

COMPANY NEWS: Dell Technologies is helping customers achieve faster AI and generative AI (genAI) performance with new enterprise data storage advancements and validation with the Nvidia DGX SuperPod AI infrastructure.

GUEST RESEARCH: The Mining Technology Report 2023-24, a paper published today by Equinix, reveals mining leaders are less optimistic than the prior edition about the immediate future due to ongoing geopolitical tensions and economic concerns, but do have a brighter outlook for the mid-term and beyond.

GUEST OPINION: In today’s modern business environment investors, employees, consumers and regulators are increasingly demanding that companies operate with sustainability and ethics at the forefront of business growth. Corporate success is no longer defined by financial profits alone.

GUEST OPINION: Sustainability has become a boardroom priority for modern organisations. Alongside the pressure of the ongoing climate crisis, there are good business reasons for this to be a focus.

COMPANY NEWS: CyberArk, the identity security company, today announced new capabilities for securing access to cloud services and modern infrastructure for all users, based on the company’s risk-based intelligent privilege controls.

COMPANY NEWS: UiPath, a leading enterprise automation software company, and Teradata today announced a partnership that will allow enterprises to seamlessly and securely automate complex data applications directly at the source—from dashboards to generative AI to large language models (LLMs).

COMPANY NEWS: Aveva, a global leader in industrial software, has met its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets for 2025 early and accelerated investment in software solutions that help customers to decarbonise.

ITWireTV speaks with Paessler regional manager APAC Felix Berndt about Paessler's recent research with Intuit on sustainability practices and ESG, trends in ANZ organisations, and the drivers of major organisations in our region.

COMPANY NEWS: Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced the publication of its inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report, showcasing its robust adherence to responsible business practices and sustainable operations.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response, today announced the Vectra AI Platform with patented Attack Signal Intelligence to deliver the integrated signal enterprises need to make extended detection and response (XDR) a reality.

A report prepared by the University of Technology Sydney has found that sustainability professionals are not receiving the data they need concerning data centre operations.

COMPANY NEWS: CyberArk, the identity security company, today announced the release of its latest Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report. CyberArk’s approach to ESG and sustainability is grounded in its commitment to its people, core values, communities and the environment, and to integrating the principles of ESG into the company’s operations and strategic decision making.

Professional services outfit RSM Australia has bolstered its cyber security and climate risk capabilities with two new partners.