Displaying items by tag: ESG

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

GUEST RESEARCH: Paessler AG, a leading provider of IT monitoring solutions, has commissioned Intuit-Research to assess the current state of sustainability practices among businesses in Australia, New Zealand and Asean, which explores the drivers and barriers to implementing sustainable IT practices. The findings highlight the crucial role of IT monitoring in ensuring the success of sustainable IT strategies, which serve as a precursor to digital transformation.

COMPANY NEWS: Boutique active equities fund manager Alphinity Investment Management has unveiled a partnership with CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, to develop a framework to help the investment community assess responsible artificial intelligence practices and integrate into ESG considerations.

COMPANY NEWS: Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today released its second annual report on the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts, highlighting initiatives across several key areas.

COMPANY NEWS: Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced Nutanix Central, a cloud-delivered solution that provides a single console for visibility, monitoring and management across public cloud, on-premises, hosted or edge infrastructure. This will extend the universal cloud operating model of the Nutanix Cloud Platform to break down silos and simplify consistently managing apps and data anywhere.

GUEST INTERVIEW: With ANZ and NAB just two of the 270+ banks worldwide running on Intellect Design Arena's platform, iTWire spoke with COO of Global Transaction Banking, Uppili Srinivasan, to learn more!

GUEST INTERVIEW: With ANZ and NAB just two of the 270+ banks worldwide running on Intellect Design Arena's platform, iTWire spoke with COO of Global Transaction Banking, Uppili Srinivasan, to learn more!

COMPANY NEWS: Commvault, a global enterprise leader in data management across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, today announced the general availability of Metallic ThreatWise, an early warning system that proactively surfaces unknown and zero-day threats to minimise compromised data and business impact.

Not all Australian business leaders are confident in the ability of their people to make the right call in some issues, and has instead turned to automated bots to make decisions in key areas, according to a study No Planet B by Oracle and Harvard professional development instructor and CIO advisor Pamela Rucker.

GUEST OPINION: The topic of ESG has never been more in the spotlight. As shareholders, investors, customers, and the public increasingly hold organisations to a higher standard of accountability, companies have a responsibility to create a more sustainable and resilient future for the next generation.

GUEST OPINION: The topic of ESG has never been more in the spotlight. As shareholders, investors, customers, and the public increasingly hold organisations to a higher standard of accountability, companies have a responsibility to create a more sustainable and resilient future for the next generation.

Ninety-seven percent of mining leaders interviewed in the Equinix Mining Technology Report are optimistic about their prospects with a quarter expecting sales revenue to grow between 20% and 50% in the next 12 months.

COMPANY NEWS: MetricStream, the global market leader of integrated risk management (IRM) and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) today announced a collaboration with the Value Reporting Foundation, which maintains the SASB standards. Through this collaboration, MetricStream now can integrate the industry-specific, decision-useful, and cost-effective SASB standards and metrics into its offerings.

COMPANY NEWS: MetricStream, the global market leader in integrated risk management (IRM) and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), has announced ConnectedGRC solutions that address today's most urgent business challenges related to risk, compliance, audit, cyber risks, and environmental, social, governance (ESG). Over the last 24 months, organisations have been challenged by a rapid increase of cybersecurity risks, business disruptions, regulatory pressures, and a constantly evolving need to demonstrate responsible business practices.

COMPANY NEWS: Virsec launches its Deterministic Protection Platform to thwart all threats against software workloads and reduce dwell time from minutes to milliseconds.

GUEST OPINION: As the world spins towards 2022, it is clear that the new year will see our reliance on cloud technologies becoming more vital than ever before.

COMPANY NEWS: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced that it achieved 100% renewable energy through a combination of directly purchased renewable energy and renewable energy credits (RECs) for its offices and 150+ data centres that run the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. Zscaler's unique and inherently efficient cloud-based architecture enables customers to improve their security posture and user experience while reducing the need to purchase, maintain, and power on-premises security hardware, thus enabling customers to reduce their IT equipment overhead and consequently their energy usage.

Semiconductor company AMD plans to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct accelerators in artificial intelligence training and high performance computing applications running on accelerated compute nodes by 2025.