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COMPANY NEWS:  As we look forward to 2025, the excitement around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) is palpable, as it drives innovation across organisations. However, this initial headrush is likely to wane as businesses shift their focus to the practicalities of investing in AI and measuring its effectiveness. The Australian landscape is evolving rapidly as well, with legislative reforms and new regulatory policies shaping the future of governance, cybersecurity and ethical AI use, significantly impacting business operations.

COMPANY NEWS: Apptio, a leading technology spend and value management company, today announced an enhancement to its Cloudability product suite to give FinOps practitioners access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) usage and cost data natively within the Cloudability platform.

GUEST OPINION: Gone are the days when cloud migration was some kind of 'science project'; today, everyone wants to see value, progress, and agility benefits materialise sooner rather than later.

COMPANY NEWS: Apptio, the leading provider of Technology Business Management (TBM) applications, and member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) announces its most recent integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help customers understand, visualise, and optimise their cloud environments through direct access to Apptio’s Cloudability suite of products.

GUEST OPINION by Michael Vincetic, Cloud Practice Leader, Kyndryl Australia and New Zealand: If you’ve seen a superhero movie, you’ve seen some version of this scene – our fledgling hero, learning to wield their newfound powers, accidentally destroys their kitchen instead. As enterprises accelerate their cloud modernisation, some version of this scene is today playing out in countless IT departments – only instead of an inner-city apartment being damaged, it’s an IT OPEX budget.

COMPANY NEWS Apptio extends its market leadership in FinOps, strengthening cloud savings automation with new acquisition

Apptio, Inc., the leading provider of technology business management (TBM) applications, today announced that it has acquired Cloudwiry, a market leader in multi-cloud savings automation and FinOps. Founded in 2016, Cloudwiry automates commitment management and optimisation on behalf of its enterprise customers, maximising savings, reducing risk, and increasing flexibility.

GUEST OPINION: Venafi, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, has released its predictions for the cybersecurity landscape in 2023, indicating that this will be one the most challenging years yet for the cybersecurity industry.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform will soon be available on Microsoft Azure.

Global cloud-led data-centric software company NetApp has signed a definitive agreement to acquire cloud optimisation platform provider CloudCheckr.

Infrastructure, analytics and data management provider Hitachi Vantara's new Hitachi Cloud FinOps Services aims to help organisations optimise their cloud expenditure.