Global Stories

How technology can help organisation's engage their workforce

The rise of mobile and cloud-based technologies has enabled companies to engage with these workers in new and innovative ways.

By Luke Bongiorno • 5 min read • Fri, 31st Mar 2023

Partner Programmes

Exclusive: Zoho owes Aussie success to its partner network

Zoho launched in Australia in 2019 and has launched numerous new apps, created many new jobs and grown its customer base in the region exponentially.

By Zach Thompson • 6 min read • Tue, 14th Mar 2023

International Women's Day

IWD 2023: Why it's time the cyber sector improved its gender ratio

There are opportunities galore for women to make their mark in the cybersecurity and they should be encouraged to explore and embrace them.

By Gabriella Espensen • 3 min read • Wed, 8th Mar 2023

Careers

IWD 2023: Applying for the role now helps future women in STEM

Women apply for 20% fewer jobs than men, often feeling they need to meet 100% of the criteria. But it's time to change that mindset. #WomenInSTEM.

By Natalie Mead • 4 min read • Wed, 8th Mar 2023

Cybersecurity

IWD 2023: Refocusing cybersecurity's gender lens to defend the digital realm

Cybersecurity is one of the remaining bastions where men continue to outnumber women, hindering diversity and representation.

By Charlie Hales • 5 min read • Wed, 8th Mar 2023

Unified Communications

Ryan Perera joins Infinera as SVP of APAC Sales

Infinera hires telecom industry veteran Ryan Perera as Senior VP of APAC Sales to drive faster-than-market growth across the region.

By Sean Mitchell • 2 min read • Fri, 3rd Mar 2023

Malware

Sophos report reveals stark reality of cybercrime-as-a-service

The report addresses how ransomware remains one of the greatest cyber crime threats to organisations with operators innovating their extortion tactics.

By Catherine Knowles • 5 min read • Wed, 23rd Nov 2022

Converged Infrastructure

Arena Investors acquires Australasia's Optic Security Group

Institutional asset manager Arena Investors purchases the Australasian converged security provider eyeing long-term growth and APAC expansion.

By Gaurav Sharma • 3 min read • Tue, 8th Nov 2022

Virtualisation

Nutanix appoints Daryush Ashjari as APJ Presales Vice President

Nutanix has appointed Daryush Ashjari as APJ Presales Vice President, bringing with him a wealth of experience across several IT solution providers.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 4th Nov 2022

Virtualisation

Big Data Exchange appoints Deepa Swaminathan as Marketing Vice President

Big Data Exchange (BDx) hires Deepa Swaminathan as Marketing VP during a critical period as the company launches BDx Indonesia and expands in APAC.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 14th Oct 2022

EduTech

New Zealand's Laidlaw College implements Tribal ebs:VET

New Zealand's Laidlaw College has implemented Tribal's student management system, ebs:VET, which uses powerful features from ebs's enterprise version.

By Gaurav Sharma • 3 min read • Wed, 14th Sep 2022

Stories from Other Regions

Information Communication & Technology

IWD 2023: Why equity in the ICT world needs to start in primary school

Inspiring young girls with the transformational power of technology will help close the sector's stubbornly wide gender gap.

By Bec Ney • 4 min read • Wed, 8th Mar 2023

Information Communication & Technology

IWD 2023: Time to embrace equity to support women In tech

In championing women in ICT, we must create equitable conditions for female ICT students and professionals to flourish at every stage of their career.

By Rachel Bailes • 5 min read • Wed, 8th Mar 2023

Cybersecurity

Young hackers: redirecting talents from cyber-bad to cyber-good

The rise of young hackers in the cybersecurity industry is a growing concern that needs to be addressed urgently, says journalist.

By Fabien Rech • 5 min read • Mon, 27th Feb 2023

Virtualisation

Civo appoints Josh Mesout as Chief Innovation Officer

Civo, the cloud-native service provider, hires Josh Mesout as Chief Innovation Officer to develop their ML program and reduce workload on developers.

By Oliver Stewart • 2 min read • Thu, 16th Feb 2023

Marketing Technologies

ATech has appointed its first Chief Financial Officer

Brisbane-based cloud hosting & web development firm, ATech, appoints CFO Michael Burridge to manage fiscal operations, identify cost savings & efficiencies.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Tue, 31st Jan 2023

DataCentre infrastructure

ST Telemedia on track for its first data centre in Indonesia

The data centre campus will support up to 72MW of critical IT capacity, with STT Jakarta 1 supporting up to 19.5MW when fully operational in Q2 2023.

By Gaurav Sharma • 4 min read • Thu, 8th Dec 2022

EduTech

University of Tasmania joins Fortinet Academic Partner Program

The University of Tasmania is the 498th education institution globally that has implemented the Fortinet Academic Partner Program, and the 16th in Australia.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 29th Nov 2022