Digital transformation is a requirement for ongoing competitiveness that clearly helps businesses run more efficiently.

“Data privacy regulations such as the GDPR require you to put better safeguards in place to protect customer data, and to prove you’ve done it."

“Digital is now so widely adopted that its novelty has worn off. In their attempt to declutter, people are being more selective about which products and services they incorporate into their daily lives."

Microsoft New Zealand director of commercial and partner business takes new role across the Tasman. The search for his replacement has begun.

Snapfish, HPE, and Juniper use Platform9’s hybrid cloud solution to deliver a modern cloud infrastructure-as-a-service experience.

HID Global has unveiled a new ID card retransfer printer that truly sets the bar for speed by halving the current industry standard.

With IT Expert, Schneider Electric aims to ensure secure, vendor agnostic, wherever-you-go monitoring and visibility of all IoT-enabled physical infrastructure assets.

One Identity was recognised in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management for completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Simple in layout and function, it packs the punch of a professional scanner and will prove an invaluable tool for anyone needing to archive large quantities of photographs.

Callaghan Innovation has awarded a $318,000 R&D grant to Auckland-based firm SingleSource, a company that applies risk scoring to digital identity.

Philips has a dream of completely interconnected healthcare system that offers the right information at the right time, as health knows no bounds so why should healthcare?

Bridge helps organisations better develop employees by providing them with the tools they need to grow in their jobs, master critical skills and learn from managers and mentors.

"There is a growing desire among employers for a different type of data scientist, one that can talk both technology and business."

“This could have been an extremely disruptive event to online commerce," comments DigiCert CEO John Merrill. 

We’ve all seen it: our offices are changing from the traditional four walls - to no walls. A need to reduce real estate costs is a key driver, as is enabling a more diverse and agile workforce.

Threat actors will also use different methods of attack and toolkits to look for vulnerabilities in any internet infrastructure. They are looking to steal any credentials that could allow for privilege escalation.  

The Inspector-General has given the GCSB its compliance tick of approval for the fourth year in a row.

The integration will allow Telesmart’s Cloud Calling for Microsoft Teams to natively enable external voice connectivity from within Teams collaborative workflow environment.

Fujitsu CELSIUS workstations aim to be the ideal platform for accelerating innovation and data-rich design.

Healthcare. It’s often on the leading-edge of science & technology – or at least when financing and regulation work in its favour.

SolarWinds announced a broad refresh to its network management portfolio, as well as key enhancements to the Orion Platform. 

As more companies migrate their data to the cloud, disaster recovery becomes critical to ensure their operations are not disrupted by unforeseen events.

“Now that over 3,700 SAP partners have joined our cloud strategy, the free resources will help them accelerate application development."

Extensive APIs enable security teams to more efficiently view, enrich, and contextualise real-time intelligence collected at the endpoint to keep systems secure.

H3C, Cisco and Huawei have all gained share in the growing competition in the data centre switching market.

The vendor landscape for SIEM is evolving, with recent entrants bringing technologies optimised for analytics use cases.

SD-WAN solutions effectively support WAN services, giving IT teams the ability to empower employees and optimise business processes.

In Australia and New Zealand, the company boosted PureCloud revenue by nearly 100%.

Without air conditioning, The National Museum of Computing must keep a close eye on environmental factors like temperature, humidity, and UV light levels.

Symantec Industrial Control System Protection Neural helps defend against USB-borne cyber attacks on operational technology.

“Information and the speed at which it flows throughout an organisation is a key determinant of business success."

Google's Sustainability Officer believes major changes are critical in data centres to emulate the cyclical life of nature.

UNSW aims to boost its existing set of marketing, web, and media analytics tools.

By securing your network at the DDI level, you can prevent DNS attacks, data exfiltration, and put a barrier around every connected device.

93 percent of companies without disaster recovery who suffer a major data disaster are out of business within one year.

If you are looking to learn some basic coding for applications there are a few things you might want to think about.

Security teams increasingly need end-to-end SIEM solutions with native options for host- and network-level monitoring.

Another bidder has entered the bidding arena as the potential sale of Trade Me kicks up a notch.

“This is an extremely interesting if not pivotal time to discuss how AI is being deployed and leveraged, both in business and at home.”

“In one case, the attacker gained access and tracked the business’s emails for at least six months. They gathered extensive knowledge of the business’s billing cycles."

Accenture has bought out Oracle Software-as-a-Service provider PrimeQ, which now makes Accenture the largest Oracle Cloud systems integrator in Australia and New Zealand.

“Conversation Agents present a huge opportunity to increase customer and employee engagement in a cost-effective manner."

Customer want to optimise branch connectivity to their IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud services.

Providing direct internet access to cloud-based applications has made deploying new security strategies designed for the distributed enterprise critical.

"While Intelligent Automation is merely a tool, it offers much more than a simple transfer of tasks from man to machine."

"By combining AMD Ryzen processors with a hybrid storage structure and 10GbE SFP+ connectivity, the system packs performance into a compact 1U frame."

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

IPv6 is the latest version of the Internet Protocol, which identifies devices across the internet so they can be located. 

In this time of merriment and cheer there is one thing everyone is not-so-secretly waiting for: Presents.

The solution aims to provide teams deploying microservices applications with an automated way to integrate enterprise-grade security with comprehensive application visibility and analytics.

The JASK ASOC platform automates alert investigations, supposedly freeing the SOC analyst to do what machines can’t. 

Two OVH executives have weighed in on how network infrastructure and the challenges in that space will be evolving in the coming year.

Flexibility and granularity of security controls is good but can still represent a risk for new cloud adopters that don’t recognise some of the configuration pitfalls.

Most companies tend to take a basic approach that focuses on numbers and compliance, without much room for grey areas or negotiation.