IT Brief New Zealand - Tech news for NZ's largest enterprises

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The potential impact of AR on the creative industry

Adobe believes AR could shake the foundations of the creative industry.

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The ethics of AI: How this technology can empower your business

Fundamentally AI is used to help automate repetitive tasks within businesses, however, it’s not always quite as easy as flicking a switch.

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Paessler and Sigfox partner for IoT monitoring solution

PRTG Network Monitor provides real-time visibility of the IT infrastructure associated with Sigfox’s dedicated network.

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Whitepaper: Why it’s critical to detect cyber attacks as they happen

"Many organisations are struggling to keep pace with the speed in which hackers are attacking their systems."

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Whitepaper: The key to compliance is governing access to data

By implementing a governance-based approach to identity governance, companies can secure their organisation’s sensitive data.

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Whitepaper: The best way to get insights relevant to your business

A Design Sprint offers a framework for making progress and decisions when you have a new customer proposition.

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Whitepaper: How to explain why IT security needs more budget

Do you want to convince your higher-ups that IT and security need more budget?

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Whitepaper: How to detect and respond to threats faster

This white paper uncovers how UEBA reduces your organisational risk and enables you to respond more quickly to attacks.

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Why humans will remain at the core of customer experience

"Customers are just as reliant on human interaction as ever."

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Gartner’s top tips to keep relevant in the face of change

“Continuous change can be made into an asset if an organisation sharpens its vision in order to see the future coming.”

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GitHub & the power of a truly global workforce

Look beyond the code on GitHub and you’ll see a huge community of people from almost every corner of the globe contributing to more than 96 million repositories.

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GitHub’s ‘universe of data’ empowers developers

“These past ten years have been the most transformative in tech,” says GitHub SVP Technology Jason Warner.

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Study reveals the true value of data literacy

Organisations that rank in the top third of the Data Literacy Index have 3 to 5% higher enterprise value, plus a raft of other benefits.

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IBM’s new multicloud solution plays nice with its competitors

The 'IBM Multicloud Manager' allows businesses to manage and integrate workloads from other major providers.

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New Zealand tops list of most-scammed countries - Microsoft

Around a fifth (21%) of New Zealanders who had encountered tech support scams were fooled into continuing with an interaction.

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Gartner’s top 10 tech trends for 2019

Gartner has released a list of what it sees as the most important strategic tech trends to be aware of in the quickly upcoming year.

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Adobe and WPP collaborate to scale content production and design

As brands continue their transitions into experience-driven businesses, they’ll increasingly look to their agency partners to help solve major challenges.

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Securonix and Cylance partner to drive end-to-end security offering

The two products will provide security operations centre (SOC) teams with a view of both cloud and endpoint security events.

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Adobe partners with Accenture to fuel AI-powered experiences

The collaboration is centred around the need to design powerful customer experiences at scale for global brands.

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Chatbots still too dumb to get the job done

Analysts expect chatbot usage to rise significantly in the next two years – a shift that could prove costly for brands that don’t evolve their bots.

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How Adobe aims to change the game with CC updates

Adobe announced major updates to Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop CC and Adobe XD.

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Cloud adoption: How do Australia & New Zealand stack up?

"While the cloud is now global, cultural differences will always be reflected in even small ways."

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Interview: RSA's Craig Dore on the basics of MFA

A good MFA solution would cover access for both types of applications, and enable access for both employees and third parties such as contractors.

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Mozilla delays distrust of Symantec TLS certificates

Mozilla has delayed its distrust of all Symantec security certificates – because so many businesses have failed to do anything about the problem.

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Exclusive: Cybersecurity in the API economy

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the cornerstone of both connected devices and the connected experience.

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Invest in enterprise software UX & watch your people grow

In today’s digital era, we’re seeing a big change of focus from UI to modern user experiences (UX) such as conversational UX and purpose-built UX.

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Zoom expands platform to create a cohesive UC solution

Zoom has announced a raft of new features that will allow companies to use Zoom for all of their communications needs.

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Lenovo hopes to open up HCI with new SAP and Nutanix partnership

The goal of the collaboration is to push development in access to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for enterprises.

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Exclusive: CrowdStrike’s roundup of threats so far in 2018

“Increasingly, we see criminal groups are also using the techniques and tradecraft that were typically the domain of nation states to break into companies.”

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Health beyond borders: How can blockchain transform medical tourism?

In the wake of rising blockchain popularity, the medical tourism industry is bound to be among the top beneficiaries.

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Demand drives Talend to add new APAC cloud data infrastructure

The company claims its growth in APAC is exceeding 100 percent every year, fuelling the need for more infrastructure.

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Gartner - 70% of AI for digital commerce projects succeed

As AI adoption continues to grow, a recent Gartner survey shows that in digital commerce organisation projects are succeeding at a massive rate.

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How Nokia and Chorus aim to enhance broadband access for Kiwis

Chorus has deployed Nokia's VDSL2 vectoring technology to deliver improved broadband access to users across New Zealand.

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Why protecting your DNS should never be an afterthought

Being such an integral part of the internet infrastructure makes DNS a popular target for cyber criminals looking to attack organisational networks and data.

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Pure Storage opens new A/NZ HQ in Melbourne

Storage leader cuts the ribbon on new A/NZ headquarters, affirms its commitment to the region.

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Trend Micro’s four pillars of cybersecurity strategy

There are steps that businesses can and should take to protect their data systems – and the privacy of their customers.