IT analysts have welcomed Microsoft’s decision to deliver Office 365 and Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) in two Australian data centres from 2015, saying it will alleviate fears about data sovereignty in the cloud.
CIOs and other IT leaders gathered at Sydney's Hilton Hotel for the 2014 CIO Summit.
A new security role called the digital risk officer (DRO) is emerging in response to new cyber threats introduced by the Internet of Things (IoT), according to Gartner United States distinguished analyst Paul Proctor.
Former IDC Australia director of research Matthew Oostveen has joined converged infrastructure firm VCE as its Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) CTO.
Choose your own device (CYOD) adoption is set to grow in Australia next year because of security concerns about uncontrolled bring your own device (BYOD) in the workplace, according to 2014 telecommunications predictions from IDC Australia.
Australian organisations are forecast to spend $1.77 billion on data centre technology in 2013 as companies look to upgrade old facilities or invest in new data centres, according to Gartner research.
Adoption of cloud services is steadily increasing in Australia, according to the findings of an IDC enterprise cloud survey.
More Australian organisations are investing in big data analytics as CIOs use the technology to deliver on line of business (LOB) outcomes, according to the results of an IDC survey.
Some Australian and New Zealand end users of data centre services are looking to switch providers after experiencing scale, power and downtime issues, according to an IDC study.
IT decision makers are not the only drivers for big data adoption as the marketing department is also playing a large part in this, according to IDC's Australia telecommunications group associate director, Dustin Kehoe.
Big data is not only widely used by large enterprises in Australia as the mid-market is also taking advantage of it to make decisions faster, according to new research from IDC Australia.
ICT spending in Australia is forecast to grow from $43,408.6 million in 2012 to $49,452.6 million by 2016, according to new research from IDC.
Companies could be exposing the crown jewels to malware and data breaches by not having a formal bring-your-own-device policy warns IDC Australia.
Companies will need to invest heavily in unified communications (UC) over the next four years as more staff work from home or in remote locations, according to analyst firm IDC.
The Australian public cloud services market is tipped to heat up by 2016 with IDC Australia predicting that the segment’s revenues will exceed $2.33 billion.