COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions today announced the addition of a senior MSP sales executive to accelerate MSP sales.

Shipping and mailing specialist Pitney Bowes has appointed Venkat Rao to the role of country manager for ANZ, India and ASEAN, and Joseph Saleh to the role of ANZ COO.

Software tools provider New Relic has made two sales appointments.

IT services provider DXC Technology has appointed former GE chief information officer Chris Drumgoole as executive vice president and chief information officer.

Online food delivery service Deliveroo has appointed current CEO at Meridian Energy and Powershop Australia, Ed McManus, as CEO of its Australian business.

A total of 103 Australian primary and secondary schools will each receive a polymer 3D printer from GE as part of its "Additive Education Program", in what is the largest such rollout in Australia, to "give students hands-on additive manufacturing experience".

Apple and GE have announced a "partnership to deliver powerful industrial apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics from Predix, GE’s industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform, to iPhone and iPad".

GE and CSIRO’s Data61 have collaborated to develop a data analytics solution designed to give the Royal Australian Navy greater insights into its fleet engine performance and enhance operational efficiency.   

The development of innovation applications for the Industrial Internet of Things and digital transformation is getting a major boost with Huawei and GE"s new strategic partnership.

Current, an energy start-up within global energy giant and financial services company General Electric (GE), is to acquire Australian technology start-up, Daintree Networks.

Australian business leaders and its people are optimistic about digital transformation but there is anxiety in delivering on the promise of the ‘Fourth Industrial revolution’.

Industrial giant GE is turning to the cloud to save money and boost innovation.

After its misfortunes in the phone space, Microsoft finally has something to smile about. General Electric is deploying its 300,000+ staff worldwide in over 170 countries with Office 365.

Some of the biggest names in big data have announced a new industry consortium called the Open Data Platform (ODP).

Five of the industry’s most important companies have formed a new body to ‘improve the integration of the physical and digital worlds’.

Pivotal plans to do to cloud what virtualisation did to the data centre.

A new 50:50 joint venture is being established by General Electric and Microsoft to pool their talents in order to go after the ballooning healthcare IT market. Due to go live in the first half of next year, the as yet un-named venture mirrors GE's arrangement with Intel in aged care.

The Government's e-health initiative, for which it has so far earmarked $467 million worth of investment is acting as a lure for the big names of IT with HP and GE the latest to bring new healthcare solutions to Australia.

GE, in conjunction with a group of venture capital funds, has pledged to invest $US200 million in the best ideas to accelerate the development of a smart electricity grid.

Seattle's Boeing Field was chock-a-block with corporate jets thought to be linked to Microsoft's CEO Summit. More than 100 business and other leaders are attending.