Infrastructure News, Features, and Interviews

  • In pictures: Roundtable - How to ‘thrive’ - and 'survive' - in world of IT disruption and unlock your data capital: Sydney

    Organisations that are ‘thriving’ in today’s fast-paced ‘data-driven world’ are the ones that are turning the influx of data into competitive differentiation. There’s an explosion of data being generated that must be moved, stored, protected and analysed - and then leveraged and capitalised on. Tech leaders gathered for an exclusive Computerworld roundtable luncheon at Aria - sponsored by Dell EMC - to discuss how companies can thrive in the ‘age of data’ and redefine the role of the datacentre to enable business capabilities fueled by information.

    30 July 19 12:06 Written by Jennifer O'Brien
  • 5 tips to choose a serverless vendor

    The global serverless architecture market shows no signs of slowing down with multiple vendors offering their services in a fast-growing arena. AWS, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Rackspace, IBM, Oracle, and CA Technologies are just a few industry names investing heavily in the serverless space.

    22 July 19 11:26 Written by Lee Atchison, New Relic
  • Faulty network gear behind ATO tech woes

    An “intermittent error” from a network switch was responsible for a range of Australian Taxation Office (ATO) services being rendered inaccessible on Friday.

    15 July 19 13:29 Written by Rohan Pearce
  • How serverless computing saves time and money

    Developers spend countless hours solving business problems with code. Then it’s the ops team’s turn to spend countless hours, first figuring out how to get the code that developers write up and running on whatever computers are available, and second making sure those computers operate smoothly. The second part truly is a never-ending task. Why not leave that part to someone else?

    04 July 19 09:18 Written by Josh Fruhlinger
  • ASIC eyes new rules for outsourcing, security at ASX, Chi-X

    Outsourcing of critical IT functions by operators of futures and securities markets such as the ASX, Chi-X, NSX and SSX will receive greater scrutiny from the corporate regulator under a new set of proposed rules.

    28 June 19 14:45 Written by Rohan Pearce
  • BaptistCare cuts manual data handling, paper processes

    BaptistCare is increasingly shifting away from paper-based processes and manual handling of data, with MuleSoft’s integration platform helping provide the scaffolding for its embrace of customer-facing web apps that can feed directly into line of business systems.

    20 June 19 15:13 Written by Rohan Pearce
  • Dell EMC unveils ‘AI Experience Zone’ in Sydney

    Sydney is the home to one of five Dell EMC AI Experience Zones which are intended to smooth the path to adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for businesses across the Asia Pacific.

    21 May 19 07:00 Written by Rohan Pearce
  • SKA team completes design for world’s most powerful supercomputer

    Australia’s CSIRO, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are part of an international consortium that has completed a five-year effort to design supercomputing infrastructure that will help process the masses of data generated by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.

    13 May 19 12:52 Written by Rohan Pearce
  • How does OpenStack fit in to a newly independent SUSE?

    Some of the most prominent messaging that emerged from the recent SUSEcon event, held in Nashville last month, was that it was now the world's largest, independent open source company (particularly in wake of the Red Hat-IBM deal). But what does this spell for its relationship with OpenStack?

    07 May 19 16:00 Written by By Tamlin Magee
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