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GUEST RESEARCH:  Australia and New Zealand lead in feeling they know how to get the most benefit from AI in their role/studies  

78 per cent of survey respondents in Australia and New Zealand report feeling positive about the impacts that AI is having on education

78 per cent of Academic Administrators, Educators, and Students in Australia and New Zealand say they are overwhelmed by the availability and volume of AI

GUEST RESEARCH:  Financial organisations are leaving themselves significantly exposed to risk in the cloud, according to research from Illumio.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today published The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business 2024 report, which shows how managed service providers (MSPs) around the world are embracing marketplaces and artificial intelligence (AI) to better meet customer needs, but worry about their lack of knowledge about AI and its applications.

GUEST RESEARCH: New research released by cybersecurity company Illumio has found that in the last year, nearly half of all local data breaches originated in the cloud, and more than 60% of local security workers believe cloud security is lacking and poses a severe risk to their business operations.

Managed service providers in Australia are adapting their service portfolio to meet customers’ evolving security challenges with 42% of them see significant business opportunities in cloud-based applications, according to research by cloud-first security solutions provider Barracuda Networks.

One third of Australian organisations hit with one successful ransomware attack in 2022 were repeat victims and 33% say they were hit twice or more, according to a recently published survey.

GUEST OPINION: Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), conducted new research into the talent shortage afflicting the cybersecurity industry. Among the key findings, 85% of those surveyed believe the workforce shortage is impacting their organisations’ abilities to secure increasingly complex information systems and networks. Of the current workforce, 30% plan to change professions in the future.  

Australian adoption of multicloud technologies has already reached 39%, beating the global average of 36% and set to soar to 66% this year, according to a survey and research report from hybrid multicloud computing provider Nutanix.

Multicloud is still the most common used deployment model and its adoption will jump to 64% in the next three years, according to the findings of Enterprise Cloud Index survey report conducted by Nutanix.

GUEST RESEARCH: The Dell Technologies 2021 Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) findings reveal organisations are facing several data protection challenges driven by the constant threat of ransomware and the consumption of emerging technologies such as cloud-native applications, Kubernetes containers, and artificial intelligence.

Remote support software specialist LogMeIn has released a new study showing that the need to migrate from traditional passwords and the risks they pose continues to grow, with 92% of businesses believing going passwordless is the future for their organisation.

Australian businesses have a heightened concern for security with the adoption of hybrid cloud, with 84% citing it as a barrier to moving apps to public cloud, according to a new research report.

Seventy percent of enterprises favour modernisation as an approach for implementing strategic change as compared to the replacing/retiring of key COBOL applications, according to a survey commissioned by UK technology company Micro Focus.

Mismanaging data is costing Australian businesses about $2.5 million a year, according to a newly published research report that also reveals Australia’s IT decision-makers are demanding more from their data management investments, despite most estimating that they achieve more than double the amount they invest.

Retailers across the globe are quickly moving away from traditional data centre infrastructure as cloud usage accelerates, with 93% identifying hybrid cloud as the ideal IT model — above the 91% global average across industries — according to a new report.

Many Australians are failing to adequately secure their data, including their social media accounts, despite increasing vulnerability to data breaches, according to new research.

Many enterprises are faced with a lack of Internet of Things skills putting at risk the success of their IoT deployments, according to a new global report from UK-based satellite communications provider Inmarsat.

Nearly 97% of brands know that a good mobile experience affects customer loyalty, yet 41% remain without a mobile strategy.

Insufficient existing infrastructure has been identified as the biggest hurdle for Australian organisations when adopting successful enterprise Big Data strategies today.

The growing risk of cyber threats to companies around the world is being ignored by employees who visit ‘inappropriate’ websites like porn sites while they are at work.