Virtual stagnation in the market for enterprise-owned data centre equipment. Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services continued to ramp up aggressively in 2020, growing by 35 per cent to reach almost US$130 billion. Meanwhile enterprise spending on data centre hardware and software dropped by 6 per cent to under US$90…
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energySEA revamps digital ecosystem
Supporting Australia’s race to renewables. Australian company energySEA the infrastructure sector with energy transmission and distribution engineered solutions to enable renewable energy projects to connect and stabilise the electricity grid. Their clients are energy companies, owners, and EPC’s driving Australia transition to a renewable economy. It’s a complex business and…
Read MoreShifting to Cloud in India increasing Cloud security spend
Information security and risk management spending in India to grow 9.5 per cent in 2021. Enterprise information security and risk management end user spending in India is on pace to total US$2.08 billion in 2021, an increase of 9.5 per cent from 2020, according to the latest forecast from Gartner.…
Read MoreHSBC moves blockchain to cloud
Financial institution to move Corda Enterprise Blockchain on to Google Cloud. HSBC has moved to software firm R3’s blockchain platform Corda Enterprise on to Google Cloud. The move will cut client onboarding times from months to weeks, improving the client experience and significantly reducing costs. The bank currently uses R3’s…
Read MoreBP looks to quantum networks and remote working for sustainability
Dedicated to becoming a net neutral company by 2050 Oil and gas company, BP has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance the use of quantum computing in the energy industry. By joining the IBM Quantum Network as an Industry Partner, BP will have access to IBM’s quantum expertise…
Read MoreCloud helps push the move towards sustainability
Cloud datacentres are lowering emissions by optimising the physical environment. The continued adoption of cloud computing could prevent the emission of more than 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from 2021 through 2024. According to forecast uses IDC data on server distribution and cloud and on-premises software use…
Read MoreJapan gets a second region from AWS
Organisations across Japan have been moving their mission-critical workloads to the Cloud. The Japanese government’s adoption “cloud-by-default” principle and basic policy prioritising the use of cloud services, coincides with the launch of a second full region in Japan by AWS. The AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region will expand the existing AWS Osaka…
Read MoreTop emerging technologies for finance organisations
There’s emerging technology investments for corporate finance through 2024…but don’t forget the security. A study of finance organisations in taken by analyst firm Gartner in November 2020 showed a widespread intent to invest in emerging technologies in the next three years, with cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) being the most…
Read MoreModernising healthcare provider in Queensland
Australian healthcare provider transforms the its organisation. Queensland-based not-for-profit organisation, Mater has gone on a sweeping modernisation program that is transforming the way the organisation provides care to almost 600,000 patients annually across its healthcare network. With a network of hospitals across Queensland and a Mater atHome service that provides…
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