Optus Buys Microsoft partner, Ensyst
[1] Optus Business has acquired Ensyst, an IT and managed services provider, for $13 million in a move that will bolster its managed services expertise. [2] Ensyst was named Microsoft’s 2014 Austra...
IT boards and committees face axe in mid-year Budget update
[1] Some IT boards and committees in the Australian Department of Finance will be scrapped off or joined together. [2] This move is one of the government’s action plans to decrease the skyrocket...
A/NZ IT security provider inks Endian distribution deal
[1] Hemisphere Technologies, an Australia and New Zealand based IT security solutions company, has partnered with developer of enterprise and commercial Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution Endian...
Kaseya names its top MSPs for 2014
[1] Kaseya, a Cloud IT management software vendor has announced its 2014 top A/NZ MSP partners. [2] Among the big winners are CNS, Datacom, Code Blue and centreREDIT, which have achieved excellen...
Survey of chief information officers (CIOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) find solution on cutting costs
[1] A New survey of CIOs and CFOs has highlighted the best and worst areas to save public resources, with the least way being noted as eliminating waste. [2] The survey attendees included 110 senior I...
Tight purse-strings thwart tech research
[1] Australia’s ICT research community is undergoing a major crisis. [2] Hugh Durrant-Whyte resigned as CEO of NICTA after disagreements on budget cuts and the research centre’s merger wi...
Federal Health Minister officially opens St Stephen’s
[1] Federal Health Minister Peter Dutton inaugurated St Stephen’s Private Hospital, Australia’s first ever digital healthcare facility. [2] The digital hospital is aimed at promoting eH...
Seagate Enters Australian Market to Provide Data Recovery Services
[1] Seagate has unveiled the Seagate Rescue data recovery service alongside the Seagate Surveillance HDD range in Australia. [2] The new service will provide data recovery services in cases of physica...
More than a billion dollars a week in lost data
[1] A new major global survey has revealed that Australian businesses lose over $65 billion a year from down times and data losses. [2] The annual global Data Protection Index report prepared by Stora...
Telstra’s dominance now more than half the mobile market
[1] According to the annual Communications Report, Telstra is increasingly dominating the mobile market with its share of all connections surpassing 50% mark for the first time. [2] Telstra is also in...