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Chorus receives Gender Tick, moves toward greater pay equity

The company has introduced policies focussed on gender and pay equity and the development of female leadership.More

Hyland releases OnBase Foundation, the first of many product releases

Hyland's new releases will incorporate new technology and offer more frequent releases to provide customers with quicker access to enhancements and new functionality, the company states.More

20 Sep

GitHub amps up vulnerability reporting capabilities

GitHub has announced new capabilities that make it easier for developers to report vulnerabilities directly from their repositories.More

20 Sep

Business looks to expand mainframe capabilities in AI, Blockchain

"The latest generation of mainframe technology will now run the same cutting-edge applications and services as cloud infrastructure."More

20 by 2020: Oracle Cloud's ambitious global expansion

Whitepaper: The IT directors’ guide to application modernisation

Step aside: Employees think they'd do a better job than the boss

IoT devices lacking basic security assessments

How to manage Windows 10 like a smartphone

Tech not a threat: NZ must embrace change

Enlighten recognised by Gartner, nod to growing demand for optimisation solutions

“At Enlighten, our mission is to continue to educate the market about our robust MBWFO solution, and the advantages of enhancing productivity through more visible performance metrics.”More

Five ways robotic process automation is improving the public sector – FTS Data & AI

The robots are coming, but they should be welcomed with open arms, rather than fear and trepidation.More

Enterprise cloud complexity making IT performance 'extremely' difficult to manage

Digital transformation, migration to the enterprise cloud and increasing customer demands have tech leaders looking to AI for the answer More

New blockchain platform for B2B cross-border payments

The platform from the new company Global Direct could be a game-changer for cross-border B2B transactions.More

Beyond deployment: Making AWS work for your use case

If you’re a business that wants to understand how to save time with your technology, AWS actively seeks those optimisations and gets your technology to work in ways it couldn’t work before.More

The true extent of cloud inertia’s effect on your organisation

The report dives into the importance of expertise to an organisation’s cloud evolution and the impact the current technical skills gap is having on businesses.More

Does your security team need a boost from an MSSP partnership?

Rackspace’s e-book has a practical set of protection measures, providing a framework for security decisions relevant to data centre and cloud infrastructure.More

VR boom shows no sign of slowing

The virtual reality market will exhibit a 42.2% CAGR, as big brands move to offer an advanced user experience says Fortune Business Insights.More

Google report unlocks AI's power for social good

"As more social sector organisations recognise AI’s potential, we all have a role to play in supporting their work for a better world."More

Forget disruption, you should be worrying about our lack of tech

According to the new report, ‘New Zealand, technology and productivity’, it isn’t that New Zealand has too much technology it’s that we don’t have enough.More

New Schneider tool helps discern value of Li-ion

Schneider Electric’s TradeOff Tool delivers detailed cost and energy advantages of lithium-ion cells versus VRLA batteries.More

Time to include multi-factor authentication in your cybersecurity strategy - WatchGuard

Enterprises looking to reduce the risk of cyber-compromise or attack need to think about adding multi-factor authentication technology to their arsenal.More

Sumitomo Chemical chooses Workday to bring HR vision to life

With Workday HCM, Sumitomo Chemical will unify a wide range of the company’s HR functions in one single system.More

Microsoft and Walt Disney Studios form innovation partnership

The companies are collaborating to pilot new ways to transform content workflows in the Microsoft Azure cloud.More

You’re invited: Digital Transformation and Making Effective Change

Designed and delivered by the Australian Graduate School of Management, the ACCELERATE DX Program promises to deliver practical Digital Transformation tools and thought leadership.More

DNS amplification attacks increase 1000% since last year - Nexusguard

Enterprise networks and communications service providers (CSPs) need attack mitigation as DNS patch adoption creates new threats.More

Soft skills increasingly important for IT career growth – SolarWinds survey

SolarWinds conducted a survey and had responses from 177 technology professionals from across the globe, including those from public and private sectors.More

Rapid data growth becoming major business challenge

StorageCraft research reveals rampant data growth, and inadequate IT infrastructures are a source of global concern and risk.More

Zscaler and CrowdStrike partner on cloud and endpoint protection

CrowdStrike’s AI-powered Threat Graph will integrate with Zscaler’s cloud security platform to provide customers with real-time threat detection and automated policy enforcement.More

Gartner: Blockchain to be “transformational” within a decade

Gartner’s 2019 Hype Cycle for Blockchain Business shows that blockchain will have a transformational impact across industries in 5 to 10 years.More

ASB launches debit card dedicated solely to business

"It's important to us here at ASB to keep expanding the services we provide to make sure we're offering the innovative financial tools our customers expect from us."More

NZ mid-size businesses battle productivity & growth stagnation

New Zealand’s mid-size businesses aren’t quite up to scratch compared to their counterparts overseas, with productivity and profit growth both letting them down.More

Deloitte and AWS build advanced portal for Tech Girls Movement Foundation

Deloitte and Amazon Web Services have built and hosted a competition portal for the Tech Girls Movement Foundation (TGMF) to encourage more girls in Australia and New Zealand to get into STEM.More

Artificial intelligence to play crucial role in NZ way of life

"We need to consider AI in all sectors, including health, education, agriculture and banking. AI will be useful in almost every way of life in New Zealand."More

Blue Prism rolls out new intelligent automation offering

“We are adding this flexibility without compromising on key enterprise features such as security and scalability. We’ve eliminated the guesswork and taken out any objections or barriers, so innovators and business leaders can begin their RPA journey.”More

How MSPs can choose solutions that don’t drain ROI

MSPs today are expected to align IT with business strategy, digital transformation and still stay competitive while providing room for scalability and growth.More

NZ's global alliances put it at risk for cyber attacks, expert says

"Since 2018, there is clear evidence and a growing trend that the most significant and successful cyber-attacks are carried out by state actors."More

Hands-on review: Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (6th Gen)

The 14-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Windows 10 Professional is certainly a good investment for a durable work laptop – and it definitely ticks all the boxes.More

DXC appoints new leader following Mike Lawrie retirement

"I am looking forward to leveraging these strengths and my proven operational playbook to accelerate the execution of our growth strategy."More

Mobile-first communications lead to huge productivity gains, study shows

“The slow adoption of most corporate-issued collaboratiokn platforms and the lack of support for secure mobile messaging should be a waeup call to business leaders that they need to view mobile first as their primary employee communication and collaboration channel."More

Why businesses need a strategy to combat the enemy within – Ping Identity

While strengthening your organisation’s external defences with the latest tools and technologies makes sound sense, it’s only half a battle plan.More

Google rolls out new Anthos capabilities for cloud

Anthos now features Service Mesh that connects, manages, and secures microservices; as well as Cloud Run for Anthos, which enables organisations to run stateless workloads on a fully-managed Anthos environment.More

Flexible consumption models the way to customer's hearts

“Several factors suggest that flexible consumption offerings for on-premises IT will continue to attract new customers and generate growing revenue for vendors and service providers."More

Google Cloud rolls out Cloud Dataproc on Kubernetes

Cloud Dataproc on Kubernetes combines open source, machine learning and cloud to help modernise big data resource management.More

Qualtrics expands research & strategy team in APJ

Qualtrics has expanded its research services and strategy team with three new appointments, in a move that demonstrates its growing investment in the Asia Pacific and Japan.More

MSPs: Here’s key to managing IT more effectively and securely

As businesses become increasingly mobile and fast moving, unified IT has gone from being a luxury to becoming an absolute necessity for all small and medium-scale organisations.More

Lack of investment in talent biggest barrier to martech adoption - Adobe

While Retail, Manufacturing and Wholesale industries responded with the greatest understanding of the value of marketing technology, Government and Tourism sectors are lagging behind.More

Securing your network at every point with an adaptable security fabric - Fortinet

The most effective method to ensure optimal network functionality is to employ consistent security.More

Voyager responds to rising bandwidth usage with 100 Gbit upgrade

Voyager Internet, the New Zealand ISP, has announced the completion of its 100 Gigabit upgrade of its core data network. According to the company, Voyager carried out the upgrade in response to rising bandwidth usage across the country.More

IBM launches data privacy platform for hybrid multicloud environments

The IBM z15 will enable customers to manage who can access data via policy-based controls such as encryption, cloud-native deployment, instant recovery, and data-centric privacy controls.More

IoT a hot topic in cybercriminal underbelly

"We've lifted the lid on the IoT threat landscape to find that cybercriminals are well on their way to creating a thriving marketplace for certain IoT-based attacks."More

Citrix and Palo Alto Networks team up on SD-WAN protection

The collaboration aims to enable easy deployment and management of next-generation firewalls within Citrix SD-WAN.More

Interview: Stratus CTO talks edge computing for industrial automation

“From the very beginning, our goal has always been to remove the complexity from achieving high availability and we’re doing this even more efficiently now with the introduction of our new Edge platforms."More

Understanding the shifting paradigm of the threat landscape

“The ability of threats to persist has made the whole idea of prevention obsolete.”More

Apple issues clarification on extent of iOS malware infection

The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community. More