FeaturesSurvey says... cloud and virtualisation top priorities for 2013
By Stephen WithersA survey of CIOs and IT managers has found that virtualisation and cloud are top priorities for the coming year.
Hosting provider Bulletproof has announced a fully managed version of Amazon Web Services.
Larger organisations in Australia and New Zealand favour a blended public/private cloud strategy, but there still seems to be some confusion about the definition of 'cloud'.
As MYOB prepares to launch its AccountRight Live next-generation accounting software, how will it integrate with other cloud or conventional software. And what does the company's CTO see in his crystal ball?
It was pure accident that led to Dr Clive Summerfield becoming one of the nation’s leading speech recognition and voice biometrics experts. On first arriving in Australia he’d been offered the pick of two research jobs – one working on video technology and the other on speech – by the time he had decided he fancied working in video that position had been filled, leaving just the speech research role open.
Compuware's new Outage Analyzer provides a free way to monitor third-party web services.
Building on its partnership with VMware, global Application Delivery Networking provider, F5, has announced it will support VXLAN functionality, enabling organisations to seamlessly support software defined networking (SDN) initiatives by combining VMware and F5 solutions.
Global sales of ultrabooks are set to explode over the next five years, despite the current “prohibitively expensive” cost of purchasing them, according to a new industry survey, which also predicts that sales will hit a high of 148.7 million by 2016, up from just 1.3 million sold last year – a massive jump of 109 percent.
With more than 800 users having stress tested its cloud based accounting platform, MYOB will make the AccountRight Live system generally available in a month's time, with mobile apps to follow in 2013.
Microsoft's new Cloud Security Readiness Tool provides organisations with a report showing how moving to the cloud could help the organisation's security.
