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• Crypto-currency miners to plug straight into power station in blockchain hub proposal

  IOT Group is seeking to establish a hub for crypto-currency miners that will plug directly into a Hunter Valley power station if it is recommissioned.

• Service Stream CIO departs

  The chief information officer of ASX-listed network infrastructure firm Service Stream has departed the company.

• Qld water authority to run Australia's first utility-led water industry hackathon

  Queensland Urban Utilities – responsible for the water supply and sewerage services for more than a quarter of Queensland’s population – is running Australia's first utility-led hackathon focused solely on the water industry.

• Tapping innovation while keeping the lights on: changing the culture of utilities

  As they strive to innovate and digitally transform their organisations, utilities are hitting a major barrier: their cultures.

• Energy providers failing to deliver on digital

  Squeezed by falling profits and strong competition, energy providers are struggling to deliver the digital services that consumers want, according to new research.

• Two rural utilities seek CIOs

  ​Two utilities are seeking CIOs: Essential Energy in New South Wales and Southern Rural Water in Victoria.

• Q&A: AGL CIO Simon Moorfield

  ​AGL is in the midst of a digital transformation that is changing the energy giant’s customer experience as well as the culture of its IT team. CIO Australia puts questions to the man leading the change, CIO Simon Moorfield.

• ​Back-up power fault to blame for AWS outage

  A failure in the back-up power system at AWS facilities in Sydney was to blame for the outage of its service at the weekend.

• Energy Action appoints Mathews George as its first CIO

  Energy procurement and management provider Energy Action has appointed Mathews George as the company’s inaugural CIO.

• ​5 lessons CIOs can learn from the power sector

  Studies in innovation suggest that some of the best ideas and solutions to problems are generated by looking at practices outside of one’s own area of work. There’s a tremendous opportunity for CIOs to learn better practices from their counterparts in other areas of the business.

• Queensland Urban Utilities moves to cloud, implements website self-service

  Queensland water distributor/retailer Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) has embarked on IT projects designed to reduce costs such as cloud computing and website self-service.

• AppDynamics now provides intel for business managers

  Looking to expand into a new market, AppDynamics has updated its application monitoring software to provide real-time insights that can be useful for business managers as well as IT staff.

• Tracking and the law

  The ability to access and use mobile data is a new area of law that continues to be shaped and reshaped.

• Oracle focuses on prepping databases as a service

  As it preps Oracle Enterprise Manager to run private clouds, Oracle has released an update to the management software that offers the ability for organizations to offer production-ready databases as a service.

• LucidWorks preps Solr stack as Splunk killer

  Enterprise search software provider LucidWorks has introduced a package based on its open-source Apache Solr search engine that will allow administrators and business analysts to extract more information from IT system logs.