Australia failing its startups
Australia continues to under-invest in entrepreneurship within its startup ecosystem, according to the Crossroads 2015 report released on Tuesday by StartupAUS.
Australia continues to under-invest in entrepreneurship within its startup ecosystem, according to the Crossroads 2015 report released on Tuesday by StartupAUS.
Investors this week poured at least $350 million into cloud computing companies focused on everything from security to Hadoop clusters to industry-specific apps.
Soha Systems is launching a cloud service today that lifts the burden of setting up customer-owned security platforms and eliminates the need to make network configuration changes to accommodate that security.
Nothing brings a CIO and CMO together more than them going off on their own and starting up a business. That’s what ex-CIO Jacob Dudzinski and ex-CMO Mats Johnson have done with their startup, Wifi Control.
In among all the cloud, security and mobile tech startups attracting venture funding so far this year, new companies focused on hiring, education and career development are pulling in big bucks.
A new co-working space in Sydney hopes to bring together financial tech startups into 1230 square metres of collaborative office space.
Coming off a <a href="file:///Users/bbrown/Downloads/Q4%202014%20Press%20Release%5E%5E01-16-2015.pdf">huge year in venture capital investing</a>, the bar has been set high for 2015. But network and computing startups, focused in areas such as the cloud, security and mobile, promise to reap big dollars from investors this year as well. Here's a running timeline of startup investments, with an emphasis on those of interest to enterprise IT pros.
If <a href="http://reddomobility.com/">Reddo Mobility</a> has its way, many of them will morph into mobilized ones sooner than later.
Startups flock to DEMO with stand-out products.
IBM is investing $US1 billion in its IBM Watson Group with the aim of creating an ecosystem of startups and businesses building cognitive computing applications with Watson. Here are 10 examples that are making an impact.
Illumio, a well-funded startup with an impressive list of customers, is wheeling out a data-center/cloud security platform that imposes individual security policies on every workload.
<a href="http://www.capriza.com/">Capriza</a>, a startup that helps enterprises convert their legacy apps into mobile- and cloud-based ones, Thursday announced it has racked up an additional $27 million in venture funding. That should be enough to help Capriza scale its business on the marketing and sales side, and maybe even have enough left over to afford a drummer and bassist to form a company band (more on that later...).
Corporates can learn much about innovation and entrepreneurship from startups, according to panellists from the startup scene and academia at Microsoft TechEd in Sydney.
To be innovative, a large corporation must do more than build an "innovation centre," according to panellists from Telstra and major Web companies.
Leading on technology is a “life-and-death matter” for Commonwealth Bank, according to CEO Ian Narev.