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• Flexible working creating cybersecurity headache for enterprise

  Empowering staff to work flexibly is causing a major cybersecurity headache for Australian IT executives, according to a survey commissioned by Rackspace and AWS.​

• IT chiefs need to consider ‘human cost’ of cloud migration journey

  The human cost of cloud migration - and the power to effectively communicate with key stakeholders - is getting overlooked as IT leaders are under intense pressure to lead business transformation and tasked with ‘people, process and technology’ decision-making.

• In pictures: How to sell your cloud migration strategy to your biggest critics: Sydney CIO Breakfast Event

  ​CIO Australia, in partnership with Rackspace, hosted a breakfast event in Sydney for tech chiefs to learn about the cloud migration journey. Certainly, the decision to move business workloads and applications to the cloud impacts all parts of the business and isn’t a decision isolated to the IT team. CIO presented some research findings - which revealed what more than 200 c-suite executives said they would have done differently in the cloud migration journey. Additionally, Rackspace A/NZ GM Angus Dorney touched on the human cost of the cloud, while Airtasker’s Paul Keen, and Specsavers’ Julian Mcall dished out lessons learned in a panel discussion.​

• In pictures: How to sell your cloud migration strategy to your biggest critics: Melbourne CIO Breakfast Event

  CIO Australia, in partnership with Rackspace, hosted a breakfast event in Melbourne for tech chiefs to learn about the cloud migration journey. Certainly, the decision to move business workloads and applications to the cloud impacts all parts of the business and isn’t a decision isolated to the IT team. CIO presented some research findings - which revealed what more than 200 c-suite executives said they would have done differently in the cloud migration journey. Additionally, Rackspace A/NZ GM Angus Dorney touched on the human cost of the cloud, while Airtasker’s Paul Keen, and Specsavers’ Julian Mcall dished out lessons learned in a panel discussion.

• In pictures: Managing enterprise apps in the cloud (Sydney)

  IT chiefs gathered at Rockpool restaurant in Sydney to discuss the challenges they face in moving big enterprise apps to the cloud. The luncheon was sponsored by Rackspace and Microsoft.

• In pictures: Managing enterprise apps in the cloud (Melbourne)

  IT chiefs gathered at Melbourne's Eureka 89 to discuss the challenges they face in moving big enterprise apps to the cloud. The luncheon was sponsored by Rackspace and Microsoft.

• At home with Airtasker: The start-up's CTO Paul Keen on building for hypergrowth

  Airtasker is a company in hypergrowth. Last year the job outsourcing marketplace hit half a million members, secured $22 million in a funding round led by Seven West Media, recorded its fifth year of consecutive revenue growth and ran ads during the AFL grand final half-time break.

• Digital tourism agency fast-tracks new listing platform with DevOps

  ​The Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW) has used a DevOps methodology in the cloud to create a new centralised listing platform.

• ​Most A/NZ organisations' lack of curiosity is hindering innovation: study

  The majority of Australian and New Zealand organisations lack curiosity, leading to a negative impact on technological innovation, a new study has found.

• ​One in ten IT teams wasting $100k a year

  One in ten IT teams are wasting more than $100k a year on redundant technology as decision-makers are feeling added pressure to spend products and services that might not benefit the business.

• The Cloud is too hard, so Intel launched a sweeping project to fix it

  Intel has kicked off a broad effort to speed the adoption of the modern cloud infrastructure, which it says has been slow to take off because the software is complex and takes too long to deploy.

• Google Capital likes CrowdStrike for endpoint protection

  Next-gen endpoint protection vendor CrowdStrike has landed $100 million in new investments to beef up sales and engineering and continue its push to make anti-virus software obsolete.

• Arista has a controller now too

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2857702/ethernet-switch/cisco-lawsuits-aside-arista-forges-ahead-with-eos.html">Arista Networks</a> this week unveiled what essentially is a centralized controller for its data center and cloud switches.

• Rackspace creates career path for tech execs who don't want to manage people

  Egle Sigler started at Rackspace as a junior programmer and later moved to a DevOps architect position before advancing to her current role: principal architect of private cloud solutions at Rackspace.

• Gartner shows two-horse race in IaaS Cloud: AWS and Microsoft Azure

  Research firm Gartner's annual report card on the public IaaS Cloud computing market shows there is one clear leader Amazon Web Services and another clear challenger Microsoft Azure. And then there is everyone else.