Category: Global IT News

COMPANY NEWS:  In an era marked by rising cyber threats and growing data loss incidents, DriveSavers has officially announced a strategic partnership with Computer Troubleshooters Australia, one of the country’s most trusted IT franchise service networks.

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A new collaboration between Altis Consulting and Streamline Control is helping energy, utilities and asset-heavy industries across Australia and New Zealand to “unlock the value of their operational data”.

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A new collaboration between Altis Consulting and Streamline Control is helping energy, utilities and asset-heavy industries across Australia and New Zealand to “unlock the value of their operational data”.

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A new collaboration between Altis Consulting and Streamline Control is helping energy, utilities and asset-heavy industries across Australia and New Zealand to “unlock the value of their operational data”.

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A new collaboration between Altis Consulting and Streamline Control is helping energy, utilities and asset-heavy industries across Australia and New Zealand to “unlock the value of their operational data”.

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A new collaboration between Altis Consulting and Streamline Control is helping energy, utilities and asset-heavy industries across Australia and New Zealand to “unlock the value of their operational data”.

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A new collaboration between Altis Consulting and Streamline Control is helping energy, utilities and asset-heavy industries across Australia and New Zealand to “unlock the value of their operational data”.

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COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  As an Oracle partner, Atturra will leverage Oracle technologies to drive customer success

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COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  As an Oracle partner, Atturra will leverage Oracle technologies to drive customer success

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COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  As an Oracle partner, Atturra will leverage Oracle technologies to drive customer success

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Australian professional and managed services company Experteq announced today the senior appointment of Andre Sabian as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

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Updated FDI technology specification paves the way for single device integration for process and factory automation device management. FieldComm Group’s Strategic Integration Committee (SIC), composed of leading automation industry suppliers and Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), has announced the official timeline for releasing the updated Field Device Integration (FDI) Specification. This milestone marks a critical step…

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COMPANY NEWS:  The Spanish football club adopts WatchGuard’s Unified Security Platform architecture to protect its digital environments. 

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COMPANY NEWS:  Gigamon has announced Gigamon Insights, a new capability that leverages network telemetry and AI to provide instant guidance across hybrid cloud environments. The launch highlights deeper partnerships with AWS, Elastic, and Splunk, each of which has endorsed the move as a key step toward integrating observability and AI-driven security.

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COMPANY NEWS:  ALE continues global deployment of Rainbow Hub in new international markets 

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GUEST RESEARCH:  Despite years of warnings, organisations are failing to master the fundamentals of cloud security, creating significant cyber exposure gaps. As they overwhelmingly adopt complex cloud and hybrid environments, a critical failure to manage identity-based threats and bridge the internal expertise gap is among the risks, leaving them dangerously exposed to breaches.

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COMPANY NEWS: Entering the Dutch market is the first step into Europe.

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GUEST OPINION: Walk into a bustling restaurant at dinnertime, and the energy is undeniable. But if the sound climbs too high, that lively buzz quickly turns into a stressful roar. Noise has long been one of the top complaints diners share about their favourite spots. When sound levels rise beyond a comfortable range, guests report…

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COMPANY NEWS: Following its acquisition of Nuclia, Progress introduces the easiest-to-use, RAG-as-a-Service platform—empowering companies to transform unstructured data into actionable intelligence using trustworthy GenAI.

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Shadow AI, resource and budget shortages and meeting compliance and regulatory requirements put pressure on security teams.

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Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa) and telecoms hardware vendor Ericsson have deepened their partnership, to jointly advance the deployment of 5G technologies across Thailand’s industrial landscape.

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Netherlands network solutions provider i4Networks has deployed Nokia optical hardware to deliver next-generation optical data centre interconnection (DCI) services across the Netherlands and neighbouring countries.

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Financial services and payments company Stripe is growing its business and catering to the coming boom in Agentic AI, annoucing its Stripe Capital service will come to Australia later this year, celebrating over 1 million customres across Australia and New Zealand, with tens of thousands of new customers joining each month!

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A security alert by Tenable raises the issue that despite years of warnings, organisations are failing to master the fundamentals of cloud security, creating significant cyber exposure gaps.

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GUEST RESEARCH:  Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, today announced the publication of its latest research, The Internet of Agents: The Next Threat Surface.

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COMPANY NEWS:  Company recognised for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision

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COMPANY NEWS: NiCE was recognised with the highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision for its CXone Mpower AI platform.

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COMPANY NEWS:  Launches HyperScale Edge and Flex with Broad Partner Ecosystem including Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Pure Storage, and VAST Data

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COMPANY NEWS:  Clients around the world are benefitting from the premium support, exclusive hypervisor security and extended life for perpetual licenses powered by Rimini Support for VMware

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GUEST OPINION:  Microsoft is addressing 176 vulnerabilities this Patch Tuesday, which seems like a lot, and it is. Curiously, Microsoft’s own Security Update Guide (SUG) for August 2025 Patch Tuesday only lists 86 vulns, and that’s because the SUG doesn’t include a large number of open source software (OSS) fixes published today as part of…

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GUEST RESEARCH:  Researchers at South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology claim to have developed technology that enables wearable devices and IoT sensors to be powered solely by body heat.

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GUEST RESEARCH: Exabeam unlocks visibility into AI agent behaviour to detect intent, drift, and compromise where legacy tools fail

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GUEST RESEARCH: Exabeam unlocks visibility into AI agent behaviour to detect intent, drift, and compromise where legacy tools fail

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Global data and AI company EXL has announced the launch of EXLerate.AI, its advanced agentic AI platform designed to help enterprises across Asia Pacific and beyond embed intelligence into mission-critical workflows and unlock measurable business value at scale.

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GUEST RESEARCH:  A Chinese APT group compromised a Philippine military company using a new, fileless malware framework called EggStreme. This multi-stage toolset achieves persistent, low-profile espionage by injecting malicious code directly into memory and leveraging DLL sideloading to execute payloads. The core component, EggStremeAgent, is a full-featured backdoor that enables extensive system reconnaissance, lateral movement,…

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GUEST RESEARCH:  A Chinese APT group compromised a Philippine military company using a new, fileless malware framework called EggStreme. This multi-stage toolset achieves persistent, low-profile espionage by injecting malicious code directly into memory and leveraging DLL sideloading to execute payloads. The core component, EggStremeAgent, is a full-featured backdoor that enables extensive system reconnaissance, lateral movement,…

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Cisco promised not to “mess up Splunk” when acquiring the popular SIEM/SOAR platform. This week the multinational tech firm demonstrated Splunk is serious business, putting it right at the core of its data fabric vision. The combined Cisco+Splunk solution goes beyond mere “big” data, targeting “ludicruous” scales of data volume.

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Cisco promised not to “mess up Splunk” when acquiring the popular SIEM/SOAR platform. This week the multinational tech firm demonstrated Splunk is serious business, putting it right at the core of its data fabric vision. The combined Cisco+Splunk solution goes beyond mere “big” data, targeting “ludicruous” scales of data volume.

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Verity delivers a suite of trusted AI capabilities—from agentic experiences to intelligent insights—to create a new digital workforce for the Office of the CFO BlackLine, today announced the launch of Verity AI, a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities providing finance and accounting teams with a new digital workforce of embedded, auditable AI.

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Verity delivers a suite of trusted AI capabilities—from agentic experiences to intelligent insights—to create a new digital workforce for the Office of the CFO BlackLine, today announced the launch of Verity AI, a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities providing finance and accounting teams with a new digital workforce of embedded, auditable AI.

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Verity delivers a suite of trusted AI capabilities—from agentic experiences to intelligent insights—to create a new digital workforce for the Office of the CFO BlackLine, today announced the launch of Verity AI, a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities providing finance and accounting teams with a new digital workforce of embedded, auditable AI.

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US network services provider EchoStar has agreed to sell its full portfolio of AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to space launch services provider SpaceX in a cash and shares deal worth about US$17 billion.

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US network services provider EchoStar has agreed to sell its full portfolio of AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to space launch services provider SpaceX in a cash and shares deal worth about US$17 billion.

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US network services provider EchoStar has agreed to sell its full portfolio of AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to space launch services provider SpaceX in a cash and shares deal worth about US$17 billion.

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PACSystems Safety Controller enables SIL2 designs with pre-built templates for reliable performance in demanding, safety-critical applications Emerson has announced the new PACSystemsTM RX3i CPS400 Safety Controller, designed to enable Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL2) strategies for infrastructure, fire and gas, burner management systems, and other emergency shutdown systems. The PACSystems Safety Controller is a compact,…

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PACSystems Safety Controller enables SIL2 designs with pre-built templates for reliable performance in demanding, safety-critical applications Emerson has announced the new PACSystemsTM RX3i CPS400 Safety Controller, designed to enable Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL2) strategies for infrastructure, fire and gas, burner management systems, and other emergency shutdown systems. The PACSystems Safety Controller is a compact,…

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PACSystems Safety Controller enables SIL2 designs with pre-built templates for reliable performance in demanding, safety-critical applications Emerson has announced the new PACSystemsTM RX3i CPS400 Safety Controller, designed to enable Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL2) strategies for infrastructure, fire and gas, burner management systems, and other emergency shutdown systems. The PACSystems Safety Controller is a compact,…

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Norwegian cable operator Altibox Carrier has demonstrated what it claims is the world’s first 1.6 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength transmission on an in-service subsea cable.

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Norwegian cable operator Altibox Carrier has demonstrated what it claims is the world’s first 1.6 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength transmission on an in-service subsea cable.

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Norwegian cable operator Altibox Carrier has demonstrated what it claims is the world’s first 1.6 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength transmission on an in-service subsea cable.

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GUEST OPINION:  In this Q&A, Blue Yonder’s Daniel Kohut explains the market pressures and evolving technology driving change in global supply chains.

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GUEST OPINION:  In this Q&A, Blue Yonder’s Daniel Kohut explains the market pressures and evolving technology driving change in global supply chains.

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VetChat study highlights cost-of-living pressures, low awareness of telehealth, and the deep emotional toll of pet health on owners VetChat, Australia’s leading provider of online and virtual veterinary care, has today released new research uncovering the growing challenges Australian pet owners face in accessing essential care for their pets.

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VetChat study highlights cost-of-living pressures, low awareness of telehealth, and the deep emotional toll of pet health on owners VetChat, Australia’s leading provider of online and virtual veterinary care, has today released new research uncovering the growing challenges Australian pet owners face in accessing essential care for their pets.

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Plain English Foundation editors, Dr Elizabeth Beach and Ms Emily Halloran, have been appointed to the judging panel of the 2025 Plain Language Awards, the benchmark for excellence in clear communication across Australia and New Zealand.

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Plain English Foundation editors, Dr Elizabeth Beach and Ms Emily Halloran, have been appointed to the judging panel of the 2025 Plain Language Awards, the benchmark for excellence in clear communication across Australia and New Zealand.

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An agentic AI application integrating with AWS, Elastic, and Splunk to help Security, IT, and NetOps teams detect threats, troubleshoot performance issues, and close compliance gaps at scale Gigamon, a leader in deep observability, today introduced Gigamon Insights, an agentic AI application purpose-built for network-derived telemetry to deliver immediate guidance for Security and IT operations…

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An agentic AI application integrating with AWS, Elastic, and Splunk to help Security, IT, and NetOps teams detect threats, troubleshoot performance issues, and close compliance gaps at scale Gigamon, a leader in deep observability, today introduced Gigamon Insights, an agentic AI application purpose-built for network-derived telemetry to deliver immediate guidance for Security and IT operations…

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COMPANY NEWS:  The first regional guide to spotlight enterprise leaders, mid-market challengers, and the rise of hyperscalers reshaping customer experience across APAC.

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COMPANY NEWS:  The first regional guide to spotlight enterprise leaders, mid-market challengers, and the rise of hyperscalers reshaping customer experience across APAC.

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COMPANY NEWS:  The first regional guide to spotlight enterprise leaders, mid-market challengers, and the rise of hyperscalers reshaping customer experience across APAC.

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GUEST OPINION: Cybercrime has become a structured, global enterprise, operating at a scale that rivals some of the world’s largest economies and influencing strategic risk conversations across government and industry.

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GUEST OPINION: Cybercrime has become a structured, global enterprise, operating at a scale that rivals some of the world’s largest economies and influencing strategic risk conversations across government and industry.

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GUEST RESEARCH:  KnowBe’s new HRM framework guides organisations to transform employees into an active layer of defence through data-driven insights, cultural understanding and targeted interventions

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GUEST RESEARCH:  KnowBe’s new HRM framework guides organisations to transform employees into an active layer of defence through data-driven insights, cultural understanding and targeted interventions

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COMPANY NEWS:  Launch of new 12-week video series on AI/LLM security empowers developers to safely adopt AI coding and mitigate emerging security risks

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COMPANY NEWS:  Launch of new 12-week video series on AI/LLM security empowers developers to safely adopt AI coding and mitigate emerging security risks

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A team of six students, named Six Degrees, from Deakin University Geelong have taken home the Autodesk Challenge Cup in 2025 for their architectural submission ‘Solace’ which uses prefabricated building methods (smart building) to deliver high-quality homes that incorporate universal design principles and integrated assistive technologies.

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A team of six students, named Six Degrees, from Deakin University Geelong have taken home the Autodesk Challenge Cup in 2025 for their architectural submission ‘Solace’ which uses prefabricated building methods (smart building) to deliver high-quality homes that incorporate universal design principles and integrated assistive technologies.

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AI-powered data security company Cohesity has appointed Greg Statton as Chief Technology Officer for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.

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AI-powered data security company Cohesity has appointed Greg Statton as Chief Technology Officer for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.

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GUEST RESEARCH:  F5’s latest report highlights growing API security gaps across the region and urges immediate action to strengthen governance and resilience

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GUEST RESEARCH:  F5’s latest report highlights growing API security gaps across the region and urges immediate action to strengthen governance and resilience

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COMPANY NEWS: ‍Nozomi Networks, a global leader in OT, IoT and CPS security, defends organisations around the world from cyber threats and operational disruption ‍ The acquisition accelerates Nozomi’s industrial cybersecurity innovation while maintaining its heterogeneous approach to supporting customers and partners ‍ Both companies share a vision for the power of data and AI to fuel…

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COMPANY NEWS: ‍Nozomi Networks, a global leader in OT, IoT and CPS security, defends organisations around the world from cyber threats and operational disruption ‍ The acquisition accelerates Nozomi’s industrial cybersecurity innovation while maintaining its heterogeneous approach to supporting customers and partners ‍ Both companies share a vision for the power of data and AI to fuel…

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COMPANY NEWS: LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based platform for AI-powered data centre transformation, has partnered with Brennan, Australia’s largest systems integrator, to deliver its customers advanced IT monitoring solutions to drive efficiency, scalability, and innovation. 

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