Infrastructure News, Features, and Interviews

• Westpac CEO says tech investment has slashed outages

  Westpac experienced zero Severity 1 IT incidents in the second half of FY18 and the first half of FY19, which group CEO Brian Hartzer says reflects the bank’s technology investment program​.

• How Offred, Eurovision and pizza helped SBS save the FIFA World Cup

  Noel Leslie's voice cracked momentarily as he recounted the night last year when his team at SBS rescued the broadcast of the 2018 FIFA World Cup from Optus Sports' streaming service meltdown.

• How the Bank of England is modernising its systems for the future

  The Bank of England is looking to modernise its technology platform to open up its payments infrastructure to smaller fintech players, better manage the proliferation of data, and leverage advanced automation and AI techniques.

• Why one university CIDO aligned with Splunk

  As a research-intensive Russell Group university with around 22,000 students and 4,500 staff, the University of Exeter collects a lot of valuable information.

• Business leaders don’t care about the cost of downtime

  Infrastructure and operations leaders (I&O) leaders are often on a misguided mission to find mythical “cost of downtime” numbers to build justifications for project investments in availability and recovery capabilities.

• Why Amadeus moved its core Master Pricer application to Google Cloud

  Spanish travel giant Amadeus has moved its core Master Pricer application to the Google Cloud Platform, in the first step of an ambitious cloud migration strategy.

• What lies beneath: A new approach to big data for Australian businesses

  Jump back a few years, and database management would have been top of the list in the ‘best leave that one to the techies’ category.

• Cenitex on track to complete ‘Program Fortify’ by end of year

  Cenitex expects to complete by the end of the year its most ambitious technology overhaul since the Victorian government shared services agency was established in 2008.

• How Monzo built a bank with open infrastructure

  When UK challenger bank Monzo began building its platform, the team decided it would get running with container orchestration platform Kubernetes "the hard way". The result is that the team now has visibility into outages or other problems, and Miles Bryant, platform engineer at Monzo, shared some observations at the bank at the recent Open Infrastructure Day event in London.

• Microsoft’s Azure to underpin mammoth ASIO IT transformation

  Australia domestic intelligence agency is preparing to use a mixture of on-premises and externally hosted cloud infrastructure to underpin a greenfields enterprise technology platform, as a part of a broader transformation program.

• What customers need to know about Chef's 100% open source commitment

  Software automation specialist Chef is committing 100 percent of its technology to open source, and is changing the way it goes to market in a bid to focus on large enterprise customers. Here's what customers need to know about the changes.

• Data centre ownership faces heightened scrutiny from government

  The federal government’s Digital Transformation Agency plans to develop a new certification framework that will assess the risk presented by hosting providers that handle government data.

• WA Health signs Atos for hybrid cloud migration

  Atos will oversee the migration of the WA Department of Health to Oracle-based cloud services as part of a five-year, $124 million contract.

• Square Kilometre Array founder nations sign intergovernmental treaty

  ​Australia was one of seven nations to sign a treaty in Rome this week, to establish the intergovernmental organisation that will deliver the world’s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

• Equinix to build new Melbourne data centre

  Equinix has continued its Australian spending spree, announcing today that it will build out a new Melbourne data centre, dubbed ME2.

• Modelling a connected car mega-hack on New York City

  ​Internet-connected cars have the potential to prevent accidents, reduce congestion, and make them far more fuel efficient. But there are downsides too.

• Why the potential of AIOps needs no hype

  It’s hard to separate the hype from the reality when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI). Once the domain of books and movies, it’s now being rapidly applied to all areas in business. AI for IT operations, or AIOps, is no different.

• Cloud key to Sensis embracing change

  Sensis is pretty much as venerable as you can get for an Australian business. But that didn’t stop the company from embracing cloud throughout its organisation as part of ambitious program of change that, in some cases, upended decades of tradition.

• Thales and Telstra partner to manage drone filled skies

  Aerospace and defence firm Thales has announced a partnership with Telstra to manage the low altitude airspace used by manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.

• Data centre and cloud investments pay off for Macquarie Telecom

  Investments in data centres and cloud computing has paid off for Macquarie Telecom after experiencing nine consecutive halves of revenue and profit growth.

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