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F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions deployed on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs turbocharge data management and security, unlocking new edge AI innovations and driving the future of AI-RAN

GUEST OPINION by Bruce Bennie, Vice President & General Manager, Australia & New Zealand at Juniper Networks: 2024 saw a rapid adoption in AI and sustainable innovation as more businesses looked to better streamline operations, transform customer experiences and optimise energy consumption.

In a rapidly evolving business landscape of the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are embracing the cloud as a strategic tool to navigate the current economic uncertainty and changing customer demands.

COMPANY NEWS: Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, today announced two new global partnership agreements with Cisco. The agreements bring Hitachi Vantara into Cisco’s service provider and solution technology integrator (STI) partner programs, respectively, enabling Hitachi Vantara to seamlessly integrate Cisco technologies with its storage products and position the company as a leading data centre infrastructure and hybrid cloud managed services provider.

Financial services provider Latitude Financial has disclosed a breach that it says has led to the leak of personal IDs of more than 100,000 customers from one of its service providers.

GUEST  OPINION by Bruce Bennie, VP & GM, ANZ at Juniper Networks: Vital to the security and reliability of an organisation’s network infrastructure, intent-based networking (IBN) is a form of network administration that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI), network orchestration and machine learning (ML) to automate administrative tasks across a network.

Telco and cloud security solutions provider FirstWave has launched security management platform CyberCision to enable service providers grow revenue by provisioning cybersecurity services at a reduced cost.

COMPANY NEWS: Somerville, one of the most experienced end-to-end Technology service providers in Australia, is this month celebrating its 40th anniversary since the company was founded riding a wave of strong year-on-year growth and continuing to underpin the complex demands of its growing customer base.

GUEST OPINION: 2021 saw the service provider ecosystem flourish in tough environments. Open RAN has evolved more than ever; the global 5G market has risen dramatically, creating low latency and enhanced security that give enterprises the power to implement breakthrough applications and increased AI/ML capabilities; and demand for infrastructure that powers 5G, IoT and UHD has continued to rise.

Consumers in the Asia region have significantly increased their use of digital channels to engage with businesses and service providers since the outbreak of COVID-19.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Hyperscalers is the Australian next-gen open-OEM solving IT's complexity, eliminating proprietary hardware and software vendor lock-ins, delivering better technologies at competitive pricing. Doing it all from Canberra to Australian and global customers since 2014, in what is an inspiring and true success story its customers love.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Daniel Smith is the Head of Research at Radware, and he joined me for a discussion on understanding cyber criminals, DDOS attacks, security conferences, ransomware, the pandemic, hacker groups and much more - and it's no teddy bear's picnic.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Daniel Smith is the Head of Research at Radware, and he joined me for a discussion on understanding cyber criminals, DDOS attacks, security conferences, ransomware, the pandemic, hacker groups and much more - and it's no teddy bear's picnic.

Increased broadband speeds have improved performances of popular streaming services such as Netflix and YouTube during mid-September and October when compared to a pre-COVID baseline of February 2020, according to the ACCC.

Because the more you know, the less risk of downtime

GUEST OPINION by Mike Hicks, Principal Solutions Architect,ThousandEyes: ‘Unprecedented’, as a description, gets thrown around a lot these days. Less so, precipitous. And yet that’s what we saw in March - a precipitous rise in global network disruptions.

NBN Co says it has achieved or exceeded its National Broadband Network construction targets for 25 consecutive months by more than 230,000 premises, making 11.73 million premises ready to connect by 30 June this year.

IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor has announced that former Infosys and Tech Mahindra executive Swapnil Shah has joined the company as Leader of APAC Channel and Alliances.

Australian-listed Internet service provider Spirit Telecom has secured an agreement to acquire Queensland voice, data and cloud services provider VPD Group for $14 million as part of its expansion into the NSW and Queensland markets, to create what it says is an “entirely new” wholesale business - Spirit Partners.

Complaints about telco services by telecommunications consumers dropped nearly 14% in the three months of the January to March quarter this year, compared to the same quarter last year, according to the latest report from telecommunications lobby group Communications Alliance.