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DXC Technology has officially appointed Michelle Bendschneider as Industry General Manager, Banking & Financial Services for Australia and New Zealand. 

Everything we do these days has shifted to the digital sphere—be it our social interactions with friends, shopping the latest sales online or even starting our own business. These technological advances have opened many doors for us, some good and some bad. So while we may have the ease of ordering things online and having them delivered to our door, it also opens us up to vulnerabilities. And it’s not just us, it’s businesses too.

iTWire listened to Global Chief Design Officer for IBM Consulting, Billy Seabrook, explain how his company works with Adobe, internally and with partners.

Critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has appointed Cynthia Lush as Associate Channel Director for Australia and New Zealand.

UAE telco e& has partnered with IBM to launch an end-to-end GenAI governance solution, announced this week at the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos.

GUEST OPINION:  Every click and swipe might feel like fleeting moments online, however, our digital footprints are enduring records that can be analysed, monetised, and sometimes weaponised.

Capgemini, Confluent, IBM, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, and Unstructured join the MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) ecosystem to help organisations make an impact with AI

MongoDB, Meta collaborating to support developers with Meta models and the end-to-end MAAP technology stack

Leading autism and intellectual and developmental disability software provider CentralReach using MAAP to improve AI-powered care platform

MAAP expansion follows the introduction of vector quantisation to MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and recent AI partner integrations

Two years after joining Nutanix as vice president of Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) Solution Engineering, Daryush Ashjari’s role has been expanded to include chief technology officer (CTO) responsibilities across the region.

GUEST OPINION:  The debate is over. We know “hybrid cloud” is the right strategic choice for businesses over a “single cloud alternative” for several reasons: costs, performance, data security, regulatory compliance, and incompatibility of certain applications to run consistently within all environments.

Tech giant IBM unveiled its first IBM Quantum Data Centre outside of the US in Germany.

COMPANY NEWS: IBM and Intel announced a global collaboration to deploy Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud. This offering, which is expected to be available in early 2025, aims to help more cost-effectively scale enterprise AI and drive innovation underpinned with security and resiliency. This collaboration will also enable support for Gaudi 3 within IBM's watsonx AI and data platform. IBM Cloud is the first cloud service provider (CSP) to adopt Gaudi 3, and the offering will be available for both hybrid and on-premises environments.

Cevo, the born-in-the-cloud AWS Advanced consultancy helping businesses move faster with confidence, has appointed Mark Badenach as its new Sales Director.

Global provider of investigative analytics and intelligence software, Nuix, has announced the appointment of Aidan Troy as Vice President of Sales UK.

IBM has expanded its Australia and New Zealand senior leadership team with the appointment of Dane Gambrill as Principal, Security Business Leader.

Once it was unthinkable to use a credit card online. Today, online commerce is booming, and there's a small army working to ensure this trust is not misplaced. However, recent technological advancements mean digital trust must evolve to keep us protected. And the time to act is now.

IBM Australia and New Zealand has expanded its senior leadership team with the appointment of Kate Tollenaar to the role of Director Government & Enterprise, ANZ.

Zero Trust Segmentation combined with Zero Trust Network Access delivers dynamic protection across modern hybrid IT

GUEST OPINION: It’s no secret that industry sectors like financial services, telcos, and healthcare continued to dominate headlines in the past twelve months, but not always for the right reasons. In fact, managing operational risk within continues to be significantly challenging due to several factors including accelerated digital transformation, increased cyber threats, explosion of data volumes, and adoption of generative AI.

Enterprises which have been running CentOS 7 will have to look around for alternatives before the end of the Australian financial year as the distribution reaches its end-of-life on 30 June.

COMPANY NEWS: UiPath, a leading enterprise automation and AI software company, today announced several new generative AI (genAI) features in its platform designed to help enterprises realise the full potential of AI with automation by accessing powerful, specialised AI models tailored to their challenges and most valuable use cases.