Global Stories

Exclusive: Why businesses shouldn't rely on a single cloud vendor

Mimecast COO Ed Jennings shares insights on multi-cloud, the risks of relying on a single vendor, and preparing for cyber breaches and downtime.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 4 min read • Mon, 25th Feb 2019

Hyperscale

Bill advancing in Indiana to provide tax breaks for data centers

This week a bill has progressed to make life easier for data centers in Indiana and promote a digital economy.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 15th Feb 2019

Software-as-a-Service

CrowdStrike opens endpoint protection platform to third-party apps

The CrowdStrike Store leverages the cloud for both scale and telemetry, enabling applications to deliver faster, smarter, and more effective solutions.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 7th Feb 2019

Gaming

Datto names new CEO as founder steps back

Datto appoints Tim Weller as new CEO, succeeding founder Austin McChord, who will remain on the board. Weller has been pivotal in Datto's growth.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Tue, 15th Jan 2019

IoT Security

CUJO AI and Cylance partner to secure connected homes

63% of providers still use DNS blacklisting for end-user protection, and 45% do not feel confident they are ready to manage internet of things (IoT) security.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 10th Jan 2019

Multi-cloud

Cloudera completes Hortonworks merger

Cloudera has finalised its merger with Hortonworks to pioneer an enterprise data cloud, promising unprecedented data insights and analytics flexibility.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Mon, 7th Jan 2019

DataCentre infrastructure

STT GDC makes first foray into Thailand with new data centre

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced they have finalised a joint venture partnership with TICON Industrial Connection PCL (TICON).

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 20th Dec 2018

Hyperscale

Digital Realty nabs new executive appointment from Equinix

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer could be the game plan that Digital Realty is currently following.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 19th Dec 2018

Unified Communications

Marriott sets up call centres to answer questions on data breach

Marriott has released an update on the breach of the Starwood guest reservation data breach which affected 500 million guests.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Mon, 17th Dec 2018

Network Infrastructure

Fujitsu's WA data centre undergoing efficiency upgrade

Fujitsu's Malaga data centre in Perth has hit a four-star rating from National Australia Built Environment Rating System (NABERS).

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 12th Dec 2018

Risk & Compliance

Singtel integrates cybersecurity capabilities under Trustwave banner

Singtel has unified its cybersecurity capabilities under the Trustwave brand, creating one of the industry's most comprehensive global cybersecurity entities.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Wed, 5th Dec 2018

Data Loss Prevention

500 million impacted by Marriott database breach

A root cause of the breach is currently unknown, but Marriott indicated that the intruders encrypted the information before exfiltrating the data.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 3rd Dec 2018

Hyperscale

Digital Realty appoints new CIO and APAC MD

Digital Realty names Gregory Wright as CIO and Mark Smith as MD for APAC, strengthening its global expansion strategy under CEO William Stein's leadership.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 28th Nov 2018

IT Automation

Kaseya honours top local MSP Partners

Held at the Hilton Hotel Sydney, the awards ceremony recognised the innovation, performance and success of Kaseya's top partners for 2018.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 22nd Nov 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Eccellente! AWS building new data centres in Italy

The new infrastructure region is expected to be complete in early 2020 to enable customers to run workloads and store data in Italy with even lower latency.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Wed, 14th Nov 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

NEXTDC adds 9MW customer contracts at new Sydney data centre

NEXTDC's Sydney S2 data center has increased its contracted commitment by 9MW, taking up 47% of total planned capacity.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 13th Nov 2018

Virtualisation

IBM targets hybrid cloud with VMware partnership

IBM and VMware partner at VMworld Europe to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, offering tools to migrate-critical workloads and integrate modern applications.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Wed, 7th Nov 2018