Supporting the business as it transitions to the new world . Powerlink is a leading Australian provider of high voltage electricity transmission services that ultimately power 5 million Queenslanders. It also operates in a sector undergoing a deep reformation. Australia is experiencing the fastest energy market transformation in the world,…
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Toyota builds virtual desktops for its workforce with Nutanix
Has introduced a work-from-home program for about 13,000 employees. Japanese car brand, Toyota Motor Corp has adopted the Nutanix cloud platform to build a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment that can run 3D CAD software, delivering a new way of working for its Engineering Design Group. The car manufacturer with…
Read MoreRise of supercomputers as data generation grows in volumes
High performance computing emerges. A confluence of developments including growing volumes of data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and the emergence of new content and data-rich applications, some of which are incorporating the use of artificial intelligence (AI), is set to drive demand for higher performance computing solutions…
Read MoreForecast spend for future of work technologies could hit US$656B
How people work is evolving, enabled by technologies and accelerated by COVID-19. Future of Work (FoW) is a fundamental shift in the work model to one that fosters human-machine collaboration, enables new skills and worker experiences, and supports a work environment un-bounded by time or physical space. A new forecast…
Read MoreQueensland Treasury Corporation overhauls data and cloud
Striving for operational excellence and mitigating risk by eliminating inefficiencies. As the central financing authority for the Queensland Government, QTC provides financial resources and services for the State. In the last financial year, it delivered A$300 million worth of returns for Government stakeholders and achieved a record A$20.5 billion issuance…
Read MoreClouds on the horizon
Manufacturers are under extreme pressure to digitise. The Manufacturing Execution Systems market has been pretty lively in 2020-21, noted Gartner. Much of the activity has been the crush of vendors rushing to embrace microservices, containerized applications and low-code/no-code development, wrote Rick Franzosa senior director analyst at Gartner. In a blog…
Read MoreTencent Cloud launches three new internet data centres in Asia
Also launching a new data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. With growing customer demand and increasing cloud computing spending all over the globe, Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Tencent, today announced the launch of four new internet data centers (IDC) in Bangkok, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The addition of…
Read MoreThe future for telcos depends on embracing open platforms
5G and edge computing will help define who wins in the booming digital economy. The pandemic has shown how cloud platforms and connectivity can come together to deliver ingenuity in how we work, live and connect. As telcos race to harness 5G and Edge, the critical question has now become:…
Read MoreBenefits of pushing more than half of the business to the cloud
Improving speed to market and the ability to discover new revenue streams through cloud can increase profit growth by up to 11.2 percent. Enterprises in six global regions will be looking to add up to US$414 billion in net new profits, annually, through effective cloud adoption, reported the latest research…
Read MoreIndian businesses choose the cloud
Businesses started adopting cloud to host a wide array of applications. The Indian public cloud services (PCS) market, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), revenue totalled US$3.6 billion for 2020, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker. For the second half of 2020…
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