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• RMIT architecture students seeing design differently after AR roll-out

  Augmented reality technology looks set to disrupt architecture and design.

• ANZ seeks partner to rethink architecture for agile

  The bank yesterday announced it was starting a formal process to appoint a systems integration partner "to assist in the scoping and design of our technology architecture" to support its new organisation-wide agile approach.

• Ridley leads charge on 'intelligent built environments' in digital age

  ​Ridley is on a mission to create ‘intelligent built environments’ as it continues to buck the trend and act as a trailblazer in digitising the stereotypical slow-to adopt, manually-driven construction industry.

• Macquarie Bank competing with 'the last app you used', says digital architect

  Macquarie Bank is competing with ‘the last application that you used on your mobile’ says its digital architect.

• How Norman Disney & Young's Frank Italia stays one step ahead of disruption

  Norman Disney & Young’s (NDY) IT director, Frank Italia, has witnessed some incredible digital transformation in the property sector, leading the firm through generations of new design technologies, right into the groundbreaking building information modelling (BIM) techniques.

• The 2014 Enterprise Architecture Awards

  Welcome to the fifth annual Enterprise Architecture Awards, presented by InfoWorld, Forrester Research, and the Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture. This year, we have six winning EA programs from the following companies: Allstate Insurance, Australia Post, Dell, Dubai Customs House, Molina Healthcare, and State Farm Insurance Companies.

• HP gives OpenVMS new life

  Hewlett-Packard has changed its direction on OpenVMS, giving the operating system -- and users -- something of a reprieve.

• U.S. spy agencies adopt new IT approach

  The CIA's decision to use Amazon's cloud is part of a broader IT shake-up to make the spy business more efficient.

• Helping Data Centers Cope With Big Data Workloads

  Big data workloads tend to suck up enormous amounts of compute resources, which can create serious log jams in your data center if the workloads aren't scheduled optimally. Adaptive Computing's Big Workflow is designed to leverage HPC and cloud technologies to help data centers adapt to big data.

• ERP vendors are getting a 'good kick' from users

  The era of the monolithic, highly customized enterprise ERP system is fading, according to Gartner.

• HP Rolls Out Services to Improve Data Center Efficiency

  Aiming to help organizations cut through confusion in the data center infrastructure management market and prepare them for the impact of cloud, mobility and big data, HP is offering four new consulting services.

• Tomorrow's Data Center Will Be Mobile, Flexible, Highly Efficient and Secure

  Gartner predicts that over the next five years the data center will be defined less by geography and more by flexibility and efficiency.

• IBM to offer Watson supercomputer as cloud development platform

  IBM is preparing to give third parties access to its Watson supercomputer with the aim of spurring the growth of applications that take advantage of the system's artificial intelligence capabilities.

• Microsoft: No, we're not ditching on-premise Exchange

  Microsoft has shut down talk that it would soon stop shipping new versions of its Exchange Server, promising it would continue to develop and release the popular email software for on-premise use.

• Red Hat expands OpenShift's European availability, slashes prices

  Red Hat is cutting prices on the commercial version of its OpenShift Online PaaS (platform as a service) and making it available in more European countries, moves aimed at gaining a stronger foothold in one of the enterprise software industry's hottest segments.