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A growing number of Australian enterprises have made the switch and, for the rest, it’s only a matter of time.

GUEST OPINION by Claudia Pirko, ANZ Regional Vice President, BlackLine:  Has your business moved some or all of its core software applications to the cloud? For a growing number of local organisations, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.

COMPANY NEWS:  Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, today announced a cloud-native SASE platform that enables businesses to control access to data from any device, anytime, anywhere. The platform brings together Secure SD-WAN, Firewall-as-a-Service, Zero Trust Network Access, and Secure Web Gateway technology from Barracuda to achieve SASE convergence.

GUEST RESEARCH: The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management Tools has recognised ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho, as a Niche Player.

The market for semiconductors is expected to grow by 17.3% year-on-year globally, against a figure of 10.8% in 2020, the technology analyst company IDC says, adding that the current shortage should be over by the middle of 2022.

GUEST OPINION: While manufacturers and distributors continue to recover from the ongoing pandemic, many have learnt a valuable lesson around the importance of agility to remain resilient. The biggest takeaway has been the realisation that technology is a vital component in remaining connected with customers and suppliers in real-time.

Object storage specialist provider Cloudian has announced record bookings for the first half of its fiscal year from February to July, increasing 50 per cent over the same period last year.

The Australian government IT sector is forecast to spend more than $15.5 billion next year, an increase of 8.8% over the current year, the technology analyst company Gartner says.

Ransomware is the highest-profile type of malware attack at present: from oil pipelines to healthcare and food processing, ransomware infiltrates a diverse variety of industries, and no sector is left unharmed.

Global research and advisory firm Gartner forecast that 5G network infrastructure revenue will reach US$19.1 billion in 2021, representing an increase of 39% from US$13.7 billion in 2020. It also predicts that more CSPs will be providing 5G services in the future.

British security software and hardware company Sophos has acquired tech startup Refactr. Sophos is optimising Refactr’s DevSecOps automation platform with its Security Orchestration Automation and Response capabilities to ensure better protection.

RESEARCH: Gartner forecasts Australian spending on public cloud services to reach A$13.8 billion in 2021 and grow 23.4% to A$16.7 billion in 2022.

Global cybersecurity company Bitdefender, has announced the release of GravityZone Security for Containers solution , expanding its cloud workload security (CWS) offering with run-time support for containers and Linux kernel independence.

COMPANY NEWS: Cohesity today announced that it has been named a leader in this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for enterprise backup and recovery software solutions report. The company is positioned as a leader for the second consecutive time in just its third recognition in this report.

By 2025 cyber attackers will have weaponised operational technology (OT) environments to successfully harm or kill humans, according to new research from Gartner.

Helps customers maintain data sovereignty requirements and improve organisation's data health

COMPANY NEWS:  Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced the opening of its newest regional cloud data infrastructure in Australia to support Talend’s expansion and growth in Asia Pacific (APAC).

Business management software provider Sage has promoted Arlene Wherrett to the role of vice president and managing director for the Asia Pacific region.

The IT industry has always worked in cycles. We ask industry experts what they think will be the 'next big thing' after cloud computing.

COMPANY NEWS by Matthew Fowler, Managing Director for Asia-Pacific, VIQ Solutions: According to internal research conducted by VIQ Solutions, approximately 15 percent of the audio recorded by organisations, courts, law enforcement and other agencies including government bodies, is currently being digitised.

Company News: There’s no way to get around the fact that COVID-19 has fully excelled in the deployment of SaaS services for businesses as SaaS apps have become the default system of data for many organizations. However, the cloud adaptation among enterprises has expanded so significantly in such a short period of time that enterprises have neglected the appropriate security measures for Cloud data safely, which led to an increase in cloud security incidents, SaaS attacks, and SaaS data exploitation.

Organisations in Australia are forecast to spend about A$5.1 billion on information security and risk management in 2021, about 7.3% more than in 2020, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that global spend is likely to be about US$150.4 billion, a rise of 12.4%.