Web security vendor, Websense, has beaten its rivals to take the lions share of the unified web security market in the Asia Pacific region for this year, and had its market performance recognised by Frost  & Sullivan with the Market Share Leadership Award for 2011.

Demand for cloud based security services has taken off like a rocket in Australia with the market now valued at $38.4 million.

Green IT and concern for the environment are getting lots of attention in the IT industry but seemingly productivity and not environmental concerns are the biggest driver for Australia’s small business owners switching to high-grade video conferencing for meetings.

Transformation in workforce demographics is changing the Australian workplace, and the rapid adoption of mobile and remote access technologies is expected to dramatically redefine the face of the workplace over the next 12 months.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service adoption is growing in leaps and bounds as an increase in cloud computing users and the number of local data centres drive awareness of the benefits of infrastructure from the cloud with Australian enterprises.

With rapidly increasing usage of server virtualisation, enterprises across the Asia Pacific region are now looking at Ethernet fabric technology to help fully realise the benefits of business agility, operational efficiencies and lower costs.

Australia Post owned payment gateway SecurePay has announced a partnership with cloud based ERP supplier NetSuite that should allow local businesses to quickly set up online commerce sites.

Online search and online directories continue to attract advertisers at a rapid rate while advertising in the print directories market erodes further. In the 12 months to June this year, Australian online search and directories advertising grew 23 percent to hit $1.4 billion in total revenue, with Google still the overwhelmingly dominant player.

The Australian market for contact centre applications bounced back in 2010, recovering from a decline in 2009 to record growth of 16.4 per cent, and with strong growth forecast for the next seven years. Genesys, Avaya and Cisco are the top vendors with a full range of contact centre solutions, while Verint and NICE Systems lead in monitoring and optimisation solutions.

According to Frost & Sullivan white paper, Australian data centres are ill-equipped to handle the shift to virtualisation and cloud computing.